Interesting, when I was talking to this fellow I asked him what kind of wood this particular English tree had in the root ball area. He replied he can't dig out the root balls in this area because of the rocks involved. He said out west the soil for the most part doesn't have this kind of rock and thus it was quite easy to dig out the root ball and get some really special wood. He cuts all of his tree's at ground level.
FWIW, he said the English tree that provided the wood I was looking at was well over 150 years old. 8 feet across at the base. Now, that's a helluva tree anywhere.
PS. Doug that would be some real nice wood your displaying. Would like to have a big truck and head out west to a bunch of walnut suppliers and buy a truckload and promptly let it age about ten years. Sounds like a pretty neat retirement plan.
