If the outside translates into figure then those will be some amazing bowl blanks or boards.
If so then he should definitely distribute the wood to carvers. It is one of the best carving wood around. Like basswood but much more interesting.The last couple of pictures look like Butternut aka White Walnut. Should look nice either way
How many cords do you like to have cut up before Winter?It's fill the shed with firewood time. I cut the trees before the snow went off, yarded them to a accessable area and blocked them to length. Now it just split and pile time. I had a little left over this year and it's starting to look like I cut a bit more than I need to fill the drying shed. It's almost all red maple this year which is middle of the road for btu's/cord. It splits easy, dries fast, and works good in my antique cook stove. I'm happy to have it given the recent prices for heating oil, I'm also happy that I filled my heating oil tank 6 weeks ago
Only 2.5 - 3 . We have oil fired radiant heat and use the stove for supplemental heat and some cooking. It saves starting the oil burner in the spring and fall and saves quite a bit of oil in the winter. I don't expect that the old stove is very efficient but it makes a lot of heat.
Incredible cache! Most generous donation!
We've been offered 2 dead blue spruce and a dead Doug-fir. With so many dead ash trees, kind of hard saying yes to softwoods. But one fell in a cemetery and the other in a customers lilacs. So looks like 2 spruce heading our way. We raked up some bark piles and boxed them. They work well on cool mornings.
Needle cast and Cooley's spruce gull for the blues. Doug-fir are dealing with another type needle cast and spring redner.
