Second mystery tree from my Wood Score Makes for a Cheerry Monday! i cut today. When i found the wood Monday i thought this to be a young pignut hickory after a quick check, but when i cut it i thought elm (groan) and took it anyway. Hit one with the Fiskars and it flew apart very easily. The rest the same. After further inspection i think this is black walnut? Whats your thought FHC? If so another first for me. Its around here, not common as im not very good at identifying it. I scored mulberry, honey locust and black walnut at one score. Lost my virginity three times in one score, ill bet that never happened to anyone here!
Four score and seven beers ago, our forefathers gathered a lot of wood and literally split it with their bare hands!! Looks like black walnut to me.
Looks like Walnut, the smell is a dead give away in my book. Was this tree dead or on it's way out? It almost looks like Blue stain Funji in the heartwood.
Looks like walnut. The scraped bark showing dark under the surface is a good way to test a live tree as well.
It had no aroma. Tree was alive as it was seeping water. Look at first pic of shortie on my tailboard.
No aroma huh? Maybe give it a chance to dry out a little bit, come back and smell it. But I’m with black walnut unless the grain is speaking of poplar. Black walnut seems to be a little more stringy but not necessarily harder to split.
Weird no scent to it. Walnut typically still has scent even after a couple of years, although not as strong as when first cut.
I was thinking poplar. Not much dark wood for being walnut..had some of the green tint like poplar. And the smell of walnut, besides knowing the smell and saying it obviously smells like walnut...it for some reason reminds me of watermellon. If it doesnt have any or much smell, it's hard to believe it's walnut. Even the super old walnut I've cut was very aromatic....can't believe any fresh or green wouldn't throw smells as soon as the chain hit it
I had black walnut but was cut into small rounds not much wider than my hand across. So it was end dry but smelled iconic. Also the dark black walnut grain spread out much more so, not just confined to the heartwood, leading me to believe more this is poplar of some kind.
Not only darker wood inside, but also darker bark. And like Lynyrd Skynyrd said..."Ooooh that smell"!
Absolutely. Just knowing that bark changes more in ridges as the older the tree gets, it becomes a little more difficult to identify until the grain is seen without any other identity signs like leaves or fruit.
Here's a big ole' poplar log. My guess is poplar. FYI Walnut: It has a very distinct smell. You'll know it for sure when you get into some. I love it.
