Craig21901
ArboristSite Lurker
Was enjoying an afternoon of splitting when all of the sudden came across the nastiest, gnarliest, ugliest hunk of wood I've ever seen. The splitter didn't so much split it as it did compact and squish it. After running it through about a dozen times at every possible angle, the dang thing finally split open. It was just about that time my favorite neighbor (who's knowledge of just about everything never ceases to amaze me) stopped by, saw what I was doing, and told me it was burl walnut. He said it can be quite valuable under the right conditions, but it was too late by the time he got there I had it mostly reduced to chunks of firewood.
Any thoughts as to whether or not this is burl walnut and what causes the grain of the wood to develop this way?
Any thoughts as to whether or not this is burl walnut and what causes the grain of the wood to develop this way?