Does this look like walnut tree to you?

[Craig D Peltier]

259736259737 Someone is selling these and they were told its walnut. Im not sure of the bark but the wood looks awfully creamy.

[Jim Matthews]

Walnut on the Atlantic coast is a very dark color.

The bark tends to have a "woven" pattern.
http://video.about.com/forestry/How-to-Identify-Trees-in-the-Walnut-Family.htm

http://oregonstate.edu/trees/broadleaf_genera/walnut.html

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

I gather you'll be turning these?

[David Helm]

Could be English Walnut

[Craig D Peltier]

Walnut on the Atlantic coast is a very dark color.

The bark tends to have a "woven" pattern.
http://video.about.com/forestry/How-to-Identify-Trees-in-the-Walnut-Family.htm

http://oregonstate.edu/trees/broadleaf_genera/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.

[David Helm]

259740This is the bark of an English Walnut, just taken from a tree on my property. See if it matches your bark.

[Richard Coers]

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.

[Craig D Peltier]

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.

[Kevin Bourque]

Is it Butternut? Also called white walnut.

[Dan Hahr]

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.
Dan

[Jamie Buxton]

Hit it with a sander to throw some sawdust in the air. Walnut has a very distinctive odor.

[Jim Neeley]

Perhaps it's Fire Wood? :-)

[david brum]

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

[Danny Hamsley]

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

[Tom Fischer]

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.

[Steve Rozmiarek]

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

[Craig D Peltier]

Thanks everyone for all the input. I will pass :)

[Danny Hamsley]

Easy to tell pecan from maple. Look at the end grain. Maple is diffuse porous and pecan is ring porous. Very very different. To ID wood, you need to use all the features many times, not just a single one.