Anyone have guesses on what kind of tree this might be from?

[grizz55chev]

Northern Cal black walnut would be my best guess? (and to be fair that's not knowledge, that's leaf ID help). I looked for anything else it might be I was less familiar with cause the leaves are right for some type of walnut but didn't realize the trunks of those Nor Cal black walnuts commonly get 5-6 feet in diameter.

Yep, . That one was over 7' !

 

[dboyd351]

I was going to second Coralillo's guess. Has bipinnate compound leaves, bark looks about right and it gets really big.
Hey Coralillo, weren't you looking for a slab from a tree like that?

 

[Coralillo Lo Pro]

I was going to second Coralillo's guess. Has bipinnate compound leaves, bark looks about right and it gets really big.
Hey Coralillo, weren't you looking for a slab from a tree like that?

Yeah, but walnut wasn't quite what she wanted and even if it was, I think I'd need to take out a bank loan to buy a black walnut slab that size in California lol. Definitely "money is no object" slabs coming off that trunk!

 

[grizz55chev]

Yeah, but walnut wasn't quite what she wanted and even if it was, I think I'd need to take out a bank loan to buy a black walnut slab that size in California lol. Definitely "money is no object" slabs coming off that trunk!

According to my son, that tree was one of the biggest, if not the biggest known black walnut trees in our neck of the woods! It was located on the Sacramento river in a little town appropriately named Walnut Grove. I think it was a three day job to get it down and cleaned up, with a crane and a crew of workers involved

 

[Coralillo Lo Pro]

According to my son, that tree was one of the biggest, if not the biggest known black walnut trees in our neck of the woods! It was located on the Sacramento river in a little town appropriately named Walnut Grove. I think it was a three day job to get it down and cleaned up, with a crane and a crew of workers involved

Yeah, that's a monster! That's next level cost removal, with all the heavy equipment and skill involved for something that big. I see, just off the 5 there south of Sac. I used to live in Tahoe on and off all through the 90's in my snow bum days, been up and down 80 past Auburn countless times.

 

[grizz55chev]

Yeah, that's a monster! That's next level cost removal, with all the heavy equipment and skill involved for something that big. I see, just off the 5 there south of Sac. I used to live in Tahoe on and off all through the 90's in my snow bum days, been up and down 80 past Auburn countless times.

This son lives in Grass Valley, my other son lives outside of Truckee at Boca Lake.

 

[pdqdl]

For a bunch of chainsaw hacks, some of you guys are pretty educated

I, sir, am an arborist.
I'm the guy the hacks call when they cannot do a tree or otherwise get into trouble.

 

[pdqdl]

With Google these days, everyone is a klick away from being an expert! I'll post a pic of a tree my son recently was involved in helping to take down, chances are, very few will be able to guess what it is .for the record, I'm in the central Cali region .

Eh. I went to California a couple of times and couldn't hardly identify anything, from the grasses to the big trees.

 

[pdqdl]

Has bipinnate compound leaves, bark looks about right and it gets really big.

Black Walnut is singly pinnate, not bipinnate.

 

[pdqdl]

According to my son, that tree was one of the biggest, if not the biggest known black walnut trees in our neck of the woods! It was located on the Sacramento river in a little town appropriately named Walnut Grove. I think it was a three day job to get it down and cleaned up, with a crane and a crew of workers involved

Where's the cross section photo of that butt?

I'd like to imagine turning that one in as an accessory profit item. Generally, by the time they get that big, they are ruined for veneer or timber value. That tree was so big, even the branches might have made veneer logs.

EDIT: the stump cuts look like the large tree was significantly hollow at the ground level. Some of those branches, however, look plenty big enough to make the desired slab.