I agree with the pro's, it ain't walnut.....not sure what it is, but being the low life scoundrel wood burning junkie I am.....I'D GO GET IT A.S.A.P.......
I agree with the elm! I cut and split a lot of walnut last year and that picture looks nothing like walnut.
nope, to be honest thats how I get the majority of my wood however sometimes I have to wheelbarrow it from the back yards to the truck
So went and got the wood, Dude swears up and down its walnut, I asked him how he was so sure and he said it actually produced walnuts and that the state and local University has came by over the years and set traps for the "Walnut Husk Fly" I had no idea what that was so had to google it Evidently they attack the nuts and nest in them out here on the west coast http://jenny.tfrec.wsu.edu/opm/displaySpecies.php?pn=160 Here are some pics of the wood, I will have to take his word for it that its walnu, it splits super easy and is lighter than I expected, really did not need the splitter except for a couple peices
Yeah, I gotta say now it looks like walnut, probably not the eastern black walnut though, maybe some crazy west coast breed
Yes definitely the look of walnut on the fresh splits. Just not the black variety which was assumed by the most of us.
Possibly English/European/Carpathian/Persian Walnut. A bit lighter in color/density than Black Walnut but loads of it in orchards out in California & other western locales. Plus there's Claro Walnut,years ago was considered a hybrid between juglans regia & juglans nigra,but its a separate species all its own in northern California/southern Oregon.
I was not aware we even had walnut trees in western wa, but evidently they were once quite abundant "Early in this century, many acres of land in western Oregon and Washington were devoted to walnut production. These nuts all came originally from the Middle East and are known as Persian walnuts. Because of severe fall and early winter freezes that occurred about once in every 20 years, wind storms, the black-line graft union disorder, walnut husk fly infestation, low-producing varieties, and strong competition from California, the Pacific Northwest’s walnut industry has almost disappeared. A few orchards remain, mostly in western Oregon and Washington, along with many trees in housing developments, along city streets, and elsewhere. These trees still need management, and homeowners are still planting new trees." http://www.ccffa-oswa.org/NWWoodlands/other-trees-to-grow/2005spring-WesternBlackWalnut.pdf
got it all split and stacked, came out to about 1/3rd of a cord ( face cord) i well fill the rows up with Big Leaf maple tomorrow
Amazingly it does look like walnut after it was split......humble pie! The bark doesn't even look like our walnut here though.
yeah, the company I work for just throws them out. They are great for stacking on, they weigh a ton though. i got all my wood on them. they are 8ft long usually around 5ft wide or so the ones in the 3 covered units i have the wood stacked 3 rows deep. I move wood in there after a year or 2 on the uncovered stacks
Great score on those ready made platforms. I am building mine as I go. Tore down a deck surrounding an above ground pool and used that treated lumber. Recently I dropped a Poplar and sectioned it for boards. My next door neighbor has a sawmill. Have been building them 4x8 lately, although I do have some 2x8's.
