Tree Management Paying Dividends

[TimJ]

I've been scouting my 15 acres of mature woods for ripe dead wood ready for the harvest. I want the wood to dry relatively fast.....at least faster than oak. With all the talk of walnut, I took a tree this morning that was 85% dead. I cut it down and hauled it back to the house and had most of it split in a short time period. Talk about easy splitting. This stuff split easier than a knife in soft butter. I think it was the easiest I've split so far. Got close to a half cord.

 

[Gark]

Does it split easier than ash? We've never had the good fortune of of walnut for firewood, but three black walnuts planted here 10 years ago will be used by someone in the future. Have heard that it burns with a good aroma.

 

[bogydave]

Good days work.
Even the dead standing need time to dry after split & stacked.
Why do you need wood that will dry fast? Need it for this coming Fall/winter?

Walnut is sure a pretty wood

 

[blujacket]

I found it to be the easiest splitting wood I have ever split. It does have a good aroma too.

 

[TimJ]

Gark, it couldn't have been any easier. The rounds split in half clean with no strings and the rest was pie. It didn't have too many knots and you could get close to a knot without too much trouble. I was able to split it small to burn for this coming winter.

 

[ScotO]

I have several cords of walnut from a monster tree we cut this spring. I milled the main logs (two 36" by 10 footers), got around 600 bd/ft of lumber and two cords of firewood from the tops! I wish I had a way to excavate the stump, I would've milled that too, for gunstocks and such. I recently found out about the stumpwood being used for gunstocks (from one of the members on this site) but that was after the fact! Great score, you'll like the wood. Smells great when burning, and it burns alot like ash.....

 

[Backwoods Savage]

What really counts in the end is how it burns and how much heat will you get from it.

 

[TimJ]

Threw up a nice little wall of hickory over the last couple of days