What kind of wood?

[miller1]

I got a truckload of this and am not sure what it is, it was very easy to get to or i would have left it, it is fairly soft.

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[tomtrees58]

black walnut:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[miller1]

Here is another pic of the bark

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[aaron]

+1 Black Walnut

 

[miller1]

i thought is was walnut but the guy that cut them down said it was not walnut, the white on the outside is very soft and somewhat stringy.

 

[D&B Mack]

Walnut

 

[Tree Pig]

i thought is was walnut but the guy that cut them down said it was not walnut, the white on the outside is very soft and somewhat stringy.

Thats because its super rare and valuable and didnt want you to try and get the tree cut for nothing.

 

[no tree to big]

whats weird is the split piece screams walnut but the end grain is not black or that greenish color or anywhere close and looks like a totaly different wood :msp_confused:

 

[D&B Mack]

whats weird is the split piece screams walnut but the end grain is not black or that greenish color or anywhere close and looks like a totaly different wood :msp_confused:

That's how it looks though. Maybe one of the arborist guys can say why, I just know it does.

 

[shooterschafer]

another +1 for black walnut

 

[outonalimbts]

Walnut- for sure!

I bet its too late to save any for the mill, but if it was over 30 " it is a real shame you didn't send it to the mill. Some wonderful wood to work with and very valuable.

 

[buzz sawyer]

The bark looks like walnut but the heartwood looks like it is iron stained. Never saw that much purple in walnut before.
How quickly after you cut it did you take the picture?

 

[miller1]

It was split about 2 weeks after it was cut, the trunk was about 16-18", the guy cut a bunch of trees and limbed them and put them in a pile for me so i didnt see the leaves either.

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[buzz sawyer]

Maybe it's the camera flash giving the purplish hue. Walnut will look green when first split and I see a little of that yet.

 

[Raintree]

Bacterial or fungal staining on what appears to be poplar.

 

[Wileyone27]

It could be a nothern Catalpa. I cut a small limb off of you in my yard and it looked just like the spilt piece in the picture, not sure though the bark doesn't seem to look the Same

 

[Wileyone27]

Here is a picture of the Northern Catalpa in my back yard I think the bark looks the same. I know the picture of the spilt wood you showed is the exact same as the limb I cut off it is almost a match.

 

[M.D. Vaden]

Thats because its super rare and valuable and didnt want you to try and get the tree cut for nothing.

I take it this is a hint that if it really is black walnut, they got the shaft because the tree could have been cut into longer valuable pieces instead of little fragments.

The wood also resembles another tree I've cut into, but don't recall right now. Not much of a wood ID expert, unless maybe it's something unique like Staghorn Sumac.

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