Walnut Wood Rounds - Firewood and Woodworking Projects - Storage and Preservation - November 2023
Our neighbors to the West were having a Walnut tree limb taken down recently and the tree guy who was doing the work was the same one that gave me a bunch of Ash firewood almost three years ago to the day. At that time - and in this post - I called it all Ash. But, now that I look back, it is clear that they included some Walnut in the mix, too. They tossed (just like last time) a number of rounds of wood over the fence and I stacked them up in a spot to figure out what to do with them. You can see that pile above - and you can also see that some of the pieces required a little bit more cutting with my chainsaw. Now...knowing that this is Walnut gave me pause. Sure...I could store it, process it, split it and burn it. But, it also has woodworking value as Walnut. So, I decided to select a few pieces to pull out and store separately. I texted with my brother-in-law (a woodworker and carver) about if he'd want some of the...