I am horrible at wood ID without leaves on the trees. It all burns and creates heat, but would like to know what you think this is. It appears to have a blueish ring between the light and dark sections. Thanks in advance for your help!
I took down two trees this morning, and both were on the edge of a field. No fence lines or anything of metal close by. The blueish ring went the entire length of both trees.The blue green band is not normal and may be the wound and or metal contact.
If it gets concentrated anywhere be watchful of a nail or barbed wire or something.
Nice pics
How quick does Black Walnut season? I normally split small.One thing I didn't see anyone mention is how easy Black Walnut splits. Easy as poplar, but definitely more BTU than poplar.
If your stove tends to back-puff, you're going to have some fun with black walnut. I had continuous back-puffing troubles in the years I was running exclusively black walnut, which went away as soon as I switched back to ash and oak.
Thanks for the input! I will put this stuff with my Chestnut Oak that has been split for a year already, and we will hopefully be ready for winter of '16-'17.At 12 months, your smaller walnut splits will be good, but the mammoth ones will be holding moisture. By 24 months, everything seems good. I'd aim to give a walnut stack a good 18 months (two summers), unless I split everything on the smaller side.
As a woodworker, I cried a little when I read your last post. Black walnut is such a great looking wood and absolutely wonderful to work with. I'm all about lumber first, firewood second. Luckily, I have a great local guy with a portable Woodmizer. I've milled up 4-5K bd-ft of red oak, white oak, cherry, birch and maple on my property in the last couple of years.Had four large BW's come down in Sandy... one was a real monster, one of the two largest trees on my 4 acres. Three of these four, including the monster, were straight as a pencil, including quite a few bf of good lumber. I had thought about making lumber out of them, but mills were just about impossible to schedule after that storm, and I was swamped with work myself. They all became firewood.