Hardwood timber is used for flooring, decks and pergolas (‘dry appearance timber’), for structural purposes such as power poles, wharves and bridges (‘green structural timber’) and for lower value applications such as landscaping sleepers, fencing and pallets (‘green other’).

These are used in construction work, such as timber framed buildings, fencing and floorboards, in furniture or made into pallets. Branches, tops of trees and smaller trees can be used as wooden posts, or are chipped and pressed to make manufactured boards.

Timber is widely used in work wood producing boxes, furniture, matches, and crates. Most of the timber used from the tropical forests is hardwood. Normally, timber finds use in the construction industry in three ways mainly as – sawn wood, veneers and plywood, and fibreboards.

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Characteristics of Ironwood Its name comes from the heavy, dense heart wood the tree produces. The wood is one of the heaviest in the world. Unlike other types of wood, ironwood does not float because of its high density.

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The wood is dense, hard, and strong. It’s durable and holds up well to pressure and strain. Ironwood has been put to use as sleigh runners, tool handles and levers (hence, “leverwood”). The “hornbeam” part of the common name, hop hornbeam, also comes from its strength-under-pressure qualities.

The Eastern Ironwood has simple, deciduous leaves that are elliptical with a heart-shaped taper at the tip, 5-12 cm long, and 2-5 cm wide. The veins extend outward from a central vein and are straight and parallel, while the sides are sharply toothed.

Allergies/Toxicity: While there are no official studies available for Desert Ironwood, anecdotal reports suggest that the sawdust can be irritating to the skin and respiratory system.

Sideroxylon inerme (Smooth or White ironwood, Broad-leaved, Unarmed ironwood, Cape or East African ironwood) Sideroxylon lanuginosum or Gum bully (Ironwood) Sideroxylon lycioides (American ironwood, Canada thorny ironwood, Willow-leaved, Boxthorn-leaved ironwood, Ten-threaded, Decandrous ironwood, Bumelia ironwood)

As nouns the difference between ironwood and musclewood is that ironwood is (countable) any of a number of tree species known for having a particularly solid wood while musclewood is a common name for the species carpinus caroliniana , a species of deciduous tree.

Ironwood firewood burns very hot and I have best results when mixing it in with other firewood types like maple or oak. Since modern day stoves have advanced air settings to control the fire inside the firebox you can control the heat to keep it at a safe level.

Ironwood trees are hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 3 through 9.

1. Water ironwood trees before the soil has a chance to dry out.
2. Spread a 2- to 3-inch layer of organic mulch around the tree.
3. Fertilize the tree annually in fall with a 2-inch layer of compost.