I'm just getting started and trying to find free wood on CL, which has been non-existent lately. I finally found some, but according to the poster, the pieces are huge. They estimated them at 3' diameter x 3' long. I just want to make sure it's worth the drive before I commit. The pic he sent was of snow covered logs, which didn't help, and he said he thinks it's maple. To be fair, he said the leaves were down before he took possession of the property. Anyway, I jumped on google maps to see how far a drive it is, and low and behold, the tree is in the pic! I know this is not a maple, but not sure of what it is. If you have any ideas, I'd love to hear them. Thanks.
Leave aren't correct for oak. Sorry about the pic, I thought it would magnify. Lets try this: Google Maps
I probably wouldn't go that far for 2/3 of a cord of walnut. I've burnt black walnut. Lots of ash and ok heat. Not great heat.
It's about 35 minutes one way. I have a few more loads from my in-laws that's 5 minutes away, so I will focus my effort there. Thanks for the help.
Looks like some kind of walnut but for sure not black, the bark isn't correct. I found this picture of English walnut bark: And this of the tree: Leaves: You decide. It ain't great wood but if its free and close then its great wood.
I've never seen one with bark quite like that. Here's the one I cut down at my sister's house. I milled most of it and the entire tree had curly grain. I made an outdoor bench and table out of a couple of the "waste" slabs for my mom for Mother's day.
i'm going to "go out on a limb" here and say Tree of Paradise. Picture is tough...but the leaves look like they are the right shape, the twigs look familiar and, to me, the bark looks more like that tree (smooth-ish grey) than it does to walnut or locust.
If you were around me where I live I'd say it was a butternut It looks like my mature butter nuts and nothing like my Black walnuts but I don't even know if you have butter nut where you are Not the greatest Heat .
I keep going back to the picture and it just doesn't look like any kind of walnut bark to me. But I am looking at the picture on the tiny screen of my phone.
Looks like English walnut to me. I've done several of them, one this past summer. Not the best wood in the world but certainly not the worst either. It smells fabulous when burning.
Compound leaf with what appears like ~14 leafs per twig. not enough definition in the google maps image to get a good look at the bark hard to see if there is a terminal leaf (one leaf on the end of the compound) - lacking a terminal leaf usually from the walnut family
