Black Walnut?

[buzz sawyer]

Saw this wood for sale, claiming it is Black Walnut. There are walnuts all over the ground around it. I looked at the tree today. The smaller branches look like Silver Maple. The main stem is 40' long and about 3' at the base. I don't see another tree around it. I've never seen BW bark like this. The heartwood is only about 12" and is not dark like Walnut I'm used to. Any ideas?

 

[ElevatorGuy]

Definitely not a HVBW tree. Are you sure the nuts around it are not hickory nuts? Bark looks like a hickory to me.

 

[SS396driver]

^^^^ this

Black for comparison

They are trying to sell it ?

 

[buzz sawyer]

^^^^ this

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They are trying to sell it ?

Yes, the old highly valuable walnut syndrome. He paid $5K to have it taken down and thinks he will recoup some of that with the butt log. A rep from a sawmill is supposed to check it out. There is a metal pipe grown into the big log about half-way up. What really is confusing is all the walnuts on the ground. The guy said they were falling from the tree as they cut off branches. Maybe Butternut?

 

[Mad Professor]

Mills won't touch yards trees. Any metal is a big no.

 

[buzz sawyer]

Mills won't touch yards trees. Any metal is a big no.

That's what I told him. I hope he lets me know what the sawmill guys think about the species.

 

[ChuckMI]

DEI requires that some percentage of black walnut trees have white heartwood.

 

[Mike Ray]

I would lean toward hickory to.