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    Does this look like walnut tree to you?

    1.jpgdownload2.jpg Someone is selling these and they were told its walnut. Im not sure of the bark but the wood looks awfully creamy.

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    Walnut on the Atlantic coast is a very dark color.

    The bark tends to have a "woven" pattern.
    http://video.about.com/forestry/How-...nut-Family.htm

    http://oregonstate.edu/trees/broadle...ra/walnut.html

    I can't tell much without a leaf, nut or slice of endgrain.

    I gather you'll be turning these?

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    Could be English Walnut
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Matthews View Post
    Walnut on the Atlantic coast is a very dark color.

    The bark tends to have a "woven" pattern.
    http://video.about.com/forestry/How-...nut-Family.htm

    http://oregonstate.edu/trees/broadle...ra/walnut.html

    I can't tell much without a leaf, nut or slice of endgrain.

    I gather you'll be turning these?

    Thanks for links, they are 10 foot sections and up to 2-3 feet wide no I want slabs.

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    Walnut bark 001.JPGThis is the bark of an English Walnut, just taken from a tree on my property. See if it matches your bark.
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    That's some pretty rotten photography, and it is not walnut. Can't tell what the heck it is from the pictures. We'll need some clear pics of the bark and end grain. First thought is maple.

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    I told her its blurry and dark. She said she has some people tell her its walnut but when looking at the bark in one pic on the top log, the bark looks flakey and not very much troughs to it. That doesnt tell me its walnut or maple. We have cottonwood out here and alder as well and madrone.

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    Is it Butternut? Also called white walnut.

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    That's a pile of rotten wood.

    A turner might get something out of it. The cost to slab it out is more of a gamble that anything higher than "Just get this out of my garage!

    Walnut is dark with a light ring of sapwood. Not walnut.
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    Hit it with a sander to throw some sawdust in the air. Walnut has a very distinctive odor.

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    Perhaps it's Fire Wood? :-)
    One can never have too many planes and chisels... or so I'm learning!!

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    That's Big Leaf Maple. It's not especially valuable or expensive, so probably doesn't make sense to hassle with.

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    It is pecan, a 2nd cousin to walnut. Same family, different genus.

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    Quote Originally Posted by david brum View Post
    That's Big Leaf Maple. It's not especially valuable or expensive, so probably doesn't make sense to hassle with.
    Yes, looks like some kind of soft maple (red maybe). The bark is definitely NOT Black Walnut.
    And not butternut either, which looks like walnut bark with furrows twice as deep.

    Soft maples tend to grow twisted, curling, which looks like your pile of logs. And it becomes very unruly stuff on the back side of a TS blade.
    Soft maples are favorites of carpenter ants. The first blurry pic has one log with insect damage (hole in the endgrain). Probably ants.
    NOT GOOD. That log needs to go outside.

    Black walnuts most often grow pretty straight, vertical. Make for good ripping lumber (and good for other reasons as well)

    I like furniture logs that look like big fat telephone poles, which that pile is definitely not.

    Whoever owns that pile of lumber is trying to make lemonade out of lemons.
    But it's just 2-3 cords of firewood.
    Last edited by Tom Fischer; 04-12-2013 at 8:57 AM.

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    Looks like the maple tree that was in the backyard of my last house.

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