I friend of mine had a walnut tree in his backyard. Its was realy big and was making problems in 2 of his neighbours. He said to me find a man who can cut it and I will give you half of it. It was 5 m straight before it started to brench of and it had 45 cm circumference. So you can imagine how big it was .
But the dissapointment came when they cut it. The color was yellow something like pine. So probably young walnut. At the bottom was light color. and about a meter from the bottom i noticed dark circle which was about 3 cm in diameter. I dont want to think the rest is sapwood .
The question is should i throw more mmoney to get the 2 pieces that are 1m 70 cm long to sawmilling? Does it have any value to make something out of it (furniture etc.)? One man told me to let it dry like that for 3 months to get darker color and then take it to sawmill. I paid 50 euro for the tree to be taken down.