How to tell which kind of walnut logs I have…???

Segerdog · October 12, 2021, 08:30:53 AM

I've been doing some urban salvaging and have come across several different types of walnut trees. Leaves were already gone or dried up so wasn't able to tell that way.
Some I know is black walnut. And it's really dark the others are different shades of brown.
By the nuts I seen on the ground they all seem to be a black walnut of some type. Not an English walnut

Any thoughts?

WDH · October 12, 2021, 08:44:24 AM

If the nut husk splits, it is not walnut, it is hickory.

I cannot tell you how many times someone's walnut is a hickory.

Segerdog · October 12, 2021, 09:36:18 AM

I'm in eastern Oregon ....
I don't know as I have seen any hickory trees around here.... Or maybe I just didn't know what I was looking at

I was trying to put some pics up but just keep getting error messages. Been awhile since I posted anything and can't seem to remember how I did it before

Segerdog · October 12, 2021, 09:40:29 AM

I was reading a thing from a guy at gobi walnut and he listed off quite a number of different walnut trees. The Oregon black walnut seemed to be about the darkest. The eastern and western varieties and the claro. They were all more brown

WDH · October 12, 2021, 09:41:21 AM

Ok. Should have looked at where you are from.

Sailor Mars · October 12, 2021, 12:07:20 PM

Best thing to do outside of looking at local species and comparing it to what you have is just doing wood ID, use a dichotomous key or something and look at the color and grain

Southside · October 12, 2021, 12:38:14 PM

Quote from: WDH on October 12, 2021, 09:41:21 AM
Ok. Should have looked at where you are from.

What we've got here, is failure to communicate.... ;D

Tacotodd · October 12, 2021, 10:14:08 PM

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Don P · October 13, 2021, 07:09:39 AM

There's some men you just can't reach

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Old Greenhorn · October 13, 2021, 08:00:12 AM

Photos of the nuts and bark and anything else would be most helpful here. There are photo posting instructions at the bottom of the main page (under the various forum section listings).

kantuckid · October 18, 2021, 08:29:22 AM

Given that you-OP- have nuts-crack one and eat it? Use the taste test to know which walnut ya got?

Don P · October 18, 2021, 08:40:51 AM

The black walnuts are dropping here. It's sort of like the first snowfall of winter, it catches me unawares the first time I round a curve onto big marbles crunching under my wheels. Otentimes I'll round a curve this time of year and there is a party going on of crows, squirrels and deer on the crushed nuts in the road.

Southside · October 18, 2021, 08:43:43 AM

Wind picked up the other day and it sounded like the worst hail storm ever. Really heavy year for walnuts here and they get your attention when 20 or more are falling out of every tree at the same time.

WDH · October 18, 2021, 10:06:21 AM

The mockernut hickory nuts are falling on my metal roof on my workshop, sounds like gunshots going off.

mike_belben · October 19, 2021, 07:36:58 AM

the gunshots around my place sound like hickory nuts falling on tin roofs.

mike_belben · October 19, 2021, 07:42:17 AM

I got a whole bucket full to plant next to my syrup maples for replacement shade. the grandkids can climb walnut.

Southside · October 19, 2021, 08:01:30 AM

How many more bucket fulls do you need? :D

kantuckid · October 19, 2021, 09:50:54 AM

I have a large buckeye that protrudes through the deck alongside our living room. This year there were lots of buckeyes and we got bombed for a week or so on my standing seam roof. A visiting son's English setter was well along with chewing into one in my LR. Not sure how they affect dogs.In the woods seems to be less squirrels than at my house as there lots of hickory nuts on the ground?
About 15 miles from me is one of the contract walnut huller/buyers. I have no idea what they are paying but not something I'll do as too much back bending for me.