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When I built my log cabin, I cut the Summerbeam from black walnut. Cut the tree down on my property and sawed it flat with that Stihl.
This beam is 24 feet long, 8 inches thick, and 18 inches high. Spent about 9 hours sanding it down, and that fine powdered sanding sawdust is toxic!
Very informative comment. Thank you.
I am sitting right beneath it right now, it sure is beautiful.
I don't need any black walnut lumber just now so this one is going into the wood stove. I burn lots of black walnut. Up here it is a pest, I own 48 acres, and I own probably 250 black walnut trees. I had to whack several of them because they were killing my garden. Black walnut trees, and their roots, put out freaky toxins that will just kill a vegetable garden. Whacked another one, because the nuts kept falling on my truck and denting the hood.
If I did need lumber, the sawmill would not take this tree. As you can see it was growing on the edge of the field. Tree is 70 years old.
Over the years a fence was installed around the field and the fence is nailed to the bottom of this tree. The sawmill will not touch a tree when they know there are nails in it. In fact I am going back tomorrow for more of the trunk, but, I am not going within 7 feet of the roots, don't want to hit a nail with my saw.