>
>I find it difficult to believe that there is such a thing as walnut (or
>cherry) firewood.

Let me reassure you, there IS such a thing as walnut firewood.  My dad has
some.  I dont' know what he was thinking.  When I went home, I found a
bunch of walnut all cut up, split, and ready for the fire!  Well, now I've
got a bunch of walnut logs sitting at home working on drying.
later,
Oddball

Galoots in a daze over Wwalnut firewood.  That is nothing.  I've seen
clear, fine walnut railroad ties (creosoted of course) and beautiful
cherry, tiger maple and white oak one too.  Slash and burn timbering at it
best I think.

        Karl

On Sun, 21 Feb 1999 09:37:56 -0500 Paul Aud <pgaud0@p...> writes:
>>
>>I find it difficult to believe that there is such a thing as walnut
>(or
>>cherry) firewood.
>
>Let me reassure you, there IS such a thing as walnut firewood.  My dad
>has some.  I dont' know what he was thinking.  When I went home, I found
a
>bunch of walnut all cut up, split, and ready for the fire!  Well, now
>I've got a bunch of walnut logs sitting at home working on drying.
>later,
>Oddball
>
>--

Well, I say for certain that there is such a thing as cherry pallets.  I
have dis-
mantled several, they seem to mostly come from the Kodak factory in
Rochester,
NY.

Also, one of my neighbor's had a dead black walnut cut down and I had to
rescue the wood from another neighbor who was busy splitting it up for
firewood.  He found it much easier to split than Chinese elm.

At 08:36 PM 2/21/99 EST, Douglas S Caprette wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 21 Feb 1999 09:37:56 -0500 Paul Aud <pgaud0@p...> writes:
...
>>>I find it difficult to believe that there is such a thing as walnut
>>>(or cherry) firewood.
...
>>Let me reassure you, there IS such a thing as walnut firewood.
...
>
>Well, I say for certain that there is such a thing as cherry pallets.  I
>have dismantled several, they seem to mostly come from the Kodak factory
>in Rochester, NY.
>
>Also, one of my neighbor's had a dead black walnut cut down and I had to
>rescue the wood from another neighbor who was busy splitting it up for
>firewood.  He found it much easier to split than Chinese elm.

Bet your neighbors treat their particle-board trees more carefully!

-jgn

Karl W. Sanger wrote:

> Galoots in a daze over Wwalnut firewood.  That is nothing.  I've seen
> clear, fine walnut railroad ties (creosoted of course) and beautiful
> cherry, tiger maple and white oak one too.  Slash and burn timbering
> at it
> best I think.
>
>         Karl
>   When I took the barn down I plan to reraise at my house I found to
> my suprise the lower level was sided in board and batten walnut. The
> real find though was the siding boards under the overshot section, 27"
> wide 14' long 1 1/8 thick walnut. been there since 1850 and sound as
> the day they hung them, the widest board in the structure was in the
> grainery, 34" wide yellow poplar.

    Mike Yazel

> --

> At 08:36 PM 2/21/99 EST, Douglas S Caprette wrote:
> >
> >>On Sun, 21 Feb 1999 09:37:56 -0500 Paul Aud <pgaud0@p...> writes:

> >>I find it difficult to believe that there is such a thing as walnut
> >(or
> >>cherry) firewood.
> >
> >Let me reassure you, there IS such a thing as walnut firewood.  My dad
> >has some.  I dont' know what he was thinking.  When I went home, I found
> a
> >bunch of walnut all cut up, split, and ready for the fire!  Well, now
> >I've got a bunch of walnut logs sitting at home working on drying.
> >later,
> >Oddball
> >
> >--
>
> Well, I say for certain that there is such a thing as cherry pallets.  I
> have dis-
> mantled several, they seem to mostly come from the Kodak factory in
> Rochester,
> NY.
>
> Also, one of my neighbor's had a dead black walnut cut down and I had to
> rescue the wood from another neighbor who was busy splitting it up for
> firewood.  He found it much easier to split than Chinese elm.

I "rescued" a few boards on a pallet reciently that looked interesting - turned
out to be purple heart - the pallet was from a
shipment from South America.  Truely slash and burn!

Dave Strommen (teaching tomorrows Galoots!)
Elkhart, IN

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Aud <pgaud0@p...>

>>I find it difficult to believe that there is such a thing as walnut (or
>>cherry) firewood.

I've found that cherry seems to burn better than black walnut. Black walnut
seems to take longer to season, but when it does, it seems to burn quite
slowly, and not always completely...

I've got a spokeshave body in progress (for about 6 months now) made from
black walnut firewood. Also got a pale attempt at a mallet with a turned
maple handle and a black walnut head, all from firewood.

Got 200+/-  b.f. of cherry drying in the garage - had some scraps that went
into the fireplace - burned quite nicely...

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On the road in Philadelphia, PA
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