lesson learned: i will never never burn black walnut again

[mga]

i don't care how free it is, or even if some one drops it off and stacks it for me, i will not burn it ever. what a waste of wood. pine or poplar is better wood to burn. at least you get some heat from them. i can throw 7 logs in the fire and get the same heat that i would from 3 logs of ash or maple...if i'm lucky.

i had tons of it to burn this year and i'm sorry i ever took the wood. now i know why it was given away.

and ashes? holy ****, that stuff leaves more ashes than any other wood i have ever burned in all my years.

black walnut....only good for furniture or carvings.

 

[hanniedog]

It was free so quit your bitchin.

 

[mga]

 

[Raintree]

Was it mostly sap wood?

 

[boxygen]

Thats funny, I have always heard that black walnut is - highly valuable.

 

[UpOnTheHill]

I love burning black walnut. I've taken down a few and c/s/s and burned and was very happy with the results. It has to be well seasoned. I wonder whats up with the wood you got? Every one I've ever cut is very hard, straight grained and splits like a dream. Weird.

 

[coog]

I love burning black walnut. I've taken down a few and c/s/s and burned and was very happy with the results. It has to be well seasoned. I wonder whats up with the wood you got? Every one I've ever cut is very hard, straight grained and splits like a dream. Weird.

I completely agree. Lovely stuff.

 

[philoshop]

I like it too. But as stated earlier, it needs to be very dry.

 

[sunfish]

It's not the best firewood, but it's not that bad!

 

[Chris-PA]

Yeah, medium wood but burns hot and lights easy. And I love the way it smells when it burns! Last year was the first time I had much of it, but I don't have much this year and I miss it.

 

[Goostoff]

Walnut sucks!!! I tried it once a long time ago. I cut one down in my yard one year that thought I may as well get some heat out of it. I got nothing but smoke and ashes out of it. I swore I would never cut another stick of it again.

 

[blades]

Well I see two posters that forgot the first rule of wood burning- properly dried wood. No excuses period.

 

[Streblerm]

I'm burning some right now that I cut over the summer. It isn't as dry as I would like but it seems to burn just fine. Three 4-6" rounds lit off the secondaries pretty quickly and reached 600 degrees on the top after about 60 minutes. I'm mixing A little in with my last cord of well seasoned wood. I imagine it will burn quite nicely next winter

The only kind of wood that I have trouble getting heat from is wet wood.

 

[mga]

it's been dried for two years.

like i said..never again.

 

[farmer steve]

 

[Whitespider]

Black Walnut is lousy firewood... it requires a lot more air to keep it from smoldering, makes near as much smoke as old tires, relatively short burn cycle, moderate heat at best, and leaves a mountain of ash behind. Its burn qualities can be improved slightly by stripping off any bark, splitting it relatively small, and making sure it's well seasoned... but as I said, improved only slightly. Seems I have to re-learn that lesson every 5 years or so... or maybe, I just "hope" it will be better "this time"... it never is.

Is it better than burning snowballs??
Yeah, I guess it is... but what does that say?? Burning used toilet paper is better than burning snowball.
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[Goostoff]

The one I cut down in my yard was drug out into the pasture that surrounds my yard so the cattle could eat the leaves off it. It was left there to rot and become cow back scratcher. After a couple years the bark was falling off and I was running a little short on wood that yaer so I decided to cut it up and get some heat out of it. Was it propperly cut split and stacked for seasoning for 10 years? No it wasnt, but I can go out and cut down a live elm tree and get move heat and less smoke and ash out of it, and we all know how much water an elm can hold.

 

[BillNole]

Me thinks a few may have missed the hidden sarcasm font...

Or maybe I'm mistaken...

 

[farmer steve]

Me thinks a few may have missed the hidden sarcasm font...

Or maybe I'm mistaken...

no mistake.

The one I cut down in my yard was drug out into the pasture that surrounds my yard so the cattle could eat the leaves off it. It was left there to rot and become cow back scratcher. After a couple years the bark was falling off and I was running a little short on wood that yaer so I decided to cut it up and get some heat out of it. Was it propperly cut split and stacked for seasoning for 10 years? No it wasnt, but I can go out and cut down a live elm tree and get move heat and less smoke and ash out of it, and we all know how much water an elm can hold.

i have some walnut trees in my sheep pasture.any time there is a storm i have to check for donwned limbs.the wilted leaves are poisnious. to sheep. ashes? ya burn wood and ya get ashes.never had a problem burning DRY walnut.

 

[autoimage]

i don't care how free it is, or even if some one drops it off and stacks it for me, i will not burn it ever. what a waste of wood. pine or poplar is better wood to burn. at least you get some heat from them. i can throw 7 logs in the fire and get the same heat that i would from 3 logs of ash or maple...if i'm lucky.

i had tons of it to burn this year and i'm sorry i ever took the wood. now i know why it was given away.

and ashes? holy ****, that stuff leaves more ashes than any other wood i have ever burned in all my years.

black walnut....only good for furniture or carvings.

i can understand ur hatred for a species, mine happens to be poplar, I cringe when I see that green yellow color. I wont even use it for firepit because I cant even finish a beer berfore it burns up,unless im doing ripcords. walnut is just ok I mix it in or sell it on the roadside.