wood cutting and wood id ?

[coltfever]

This should me my last wood cutting in the woods for the year unless the winds put another one on the ground for me. I had to cut this old oak down. Its been standing dead for a few years now and all the bark is gone but tree sure is solid. ( pictured stack aganist barn ) I was hoping someone could tell me what this other stack of wood might be. Looks like walnut but the bark doesn't look like it. Sure splits easy. No walnuts on ground around it anywhere. Tree wasn't dead. Wind blew it over next to a stream and still had large rootball attached. I wish I had taken a picture before I cut it up. 3 leaf poison ivey all over this thing. Lucky I never got the first itch. At first I thought nope not gonna cut this tree up. Then the more I looked at it the more I wanted to get into it. So I would cut awhile then pull vines awhile. Pictures were taken by phone so not the best.

 

[shoot-straight]

walnut for sure!

 

[gzecc]

2nd BW. They are very nice phone pics.

 

[nrford]

+3 Walnut

 

[ScotO]

Third pic is all black walnut, but that second pic looks like a mix of two different trees.....some of those rounds resemble red elm if you ask me, the ones on the top of the pile.

 

[coltfever]

At the time I'm cutting this into rounds I'm thinking this tree looks like walnut but not sure because no walnuts on the ground around it anywhere. The wood on the trailer and the wood on the ground is from same tree. I just thought I would start splitting the small stuff first. Anyway looks like everyone thinks its walnut so my heat output should be about the same as my black cherry wood.

 

[bogydave]

Looks like walnut.
Grandpa , (years ago) told me, walnut trees needed to have other walnut trees around to get nuts.
Nice looking wood in all the stacks.

 

[Hogwildz]

Black Walnut is my vote also.
Had about 3 cords of it last year into this year. Beautiful wood. Burns good & hot, leaves a ton of white ash though.
Burn away!

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Oh ya. You have some nice burning wood there and some pretty wood too. Oak and walnut it is.

 

[chuckie5fingers]

hey coltfever..... that second pic definately looks like black walnut.
I split some that looked just like that about a week ago.
I hear it burns fairly well after a year or so of seasoning.

good luck
chuck

 

[Wood Duck]

In photo 0003 there are clearly two different trees. The smaller stuff around the edges looks in all respects like Black Walnut. The larger rounds in the middle hvae wood that looks like Black Walnut but the bark doesn't look right. You can see how the bark is browner than the other bark and the pattern is a little different. I agree with scotty that the bark looks like Red Elm, but the wood seems so dark that only walnut makes sense. Maybe it is just another Black walnut that looks a little odd.

 

[Ralphie Boy]

I cut and split a tree here in Northern Kentucky a couple of months ago that looks very much like this (0003) After posting some pictures on this forum (see "What Wood Is This" I believe is the title of my post) and doing some looking on my own I'm beginning to think it's either pignut hickory or maybe butternut/white walnut, but I'm still not sure. I There were no leaves on the tree when I cut it and I've found no nuts around the area. The bark is not correct for black walnut either but when first cut it sure looked like black walnut. The wood got lighter a few days after it was cut, more of a tan color. It split very nicely and is heavy. I don't guess it matters cause in a year or two it will burn!

Sorry to further confuse the issue :cheese:

 

[Thistle]

Black Walnut,great stuff.Have a little left of the tops/branches/milling scrap/slabs from a CL score in Sept. 2010.Will be gone in 2-3 weeks.