YT anything new?

[Robert Hazelwood]

I've been enjoying a channel called Shoyan Japanese Carpenter. Lots of power tools but also plenty of hand tool work as well. Very interesting to see their different approach to constructing and trimming out a house.

[Warren Mickley]

I wonder if your step ladder is actually made of Ironwood. We have small trees Dad calls Ironwood. The wood is very hard, very strong and very heavy. I have made tool handles out of those trees. Our timber surveyor calls those little trees Hornbeam or Musclewood. I have yet to figure out for sure what the scientific name is. It will be interesting to mill some of that wood.

A number of trees are called ironwood.

Here in Eastern United States we have two small trees that are sometimes called ironwood

1) Hophornbeam, Ostrya virginiana, with fine brown peely bark.

2) Hornbeam, Carpinus caroliniana, with smooth gray bark that is wavy like muscles, hence "musclewood" .

Both are in the Birch family

[Maurice Mcmurry]

Thank you Warren, I need to look those trees over closely with that bark description in mind and again when the leaves are on.