treesurgeon
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does anyone sell butternut hickory as a hard wood in the northeast. i considered it as being too soft but someone wanted it today for burning.
butternut hickory
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Do you perhaps mean "Bitternut"?
luvthetrobag
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or do you mean white walnut,also called butternut. If you have a good log the stuffs extremely valuable. I doubt theres any hickory that is soft.
treesurgeon
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i dont think its bitternut. bitternut should be harder. i am pretty sure its butternut. it has a white sap wood and darker heart wood like black walnut, but the heart wood is not a uniform dark color. its like a tanish brown thats not solid.
treesurgeon
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bitternut should be as hard as shagbark hickory. this wood cuts like black walnut.
luvthetrobag
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sounds like white walnut to me.
treesurgeon
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maybe. i will do a serch online for some pics. theres probable several names for this tree.
PA Plumber
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I haven't heard of that one. Shellbark, Shagbark, Pignut and Mockernut I've heard of. We have mostly Shagbark and Pignut at our place. There may be a couple of Mockernut.
treesurgeon
ArboristSite Operative
white walnut=butternut
white walnut is the same as butternut. i confused myself with adding on the hickory part. but back to my original question, do people sell white walnut as a hard wood to heat a home?
white walnut is the same as butternut. i confused myself with adding on the hickory part. but back to my original question, do people sell white walnut as a hard wood to heat a home?
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Forest Steward
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well, it is a hardwood, so it's not like it's false advertising, but I've never put it into the mix. Mostly b/c even a lower grade log is going to bring you more money selling it to a mill then chopping it up. Plus, as you said, it is a bit softer compared to something like sugar maple or oaks. Most people that buy hardwoods prefer the harder stuff. Us western NYers have enough maples and oaks around that we tend to get a bit picky.
Okay now I follow your story! Yes, Butternut is in the Walnut family and is also known as "White Walnut" or "Oilnut". It's about medium on the BTU scale-it burns, but it's not the worst nor the best. I'd say on a scale of 1 to 10 it's about a 6.5 or so.
treesurgeon
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i think it will pass the outside boiler grade. but out here in wny, people are picky, they want wood with high btu values.
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