05/15/2026
🪵 🌲 🪵 Well, well well, have we got a FOR SALE that everyone should enjoy!!!!! Has anyone heard of “WORMY CHESTNUT?” “AMERICAN CHESTNUT “?!?!?!?!?!? 🪵 🌲 🪵
“The American chestnut (Castanea dentata) is a large, fast-growing deciduous tree of the beech family native to eastern North America.[3] As is true of all species in the genus Castanea, the American chestnut produces burred fruit with edible nuts. The American chestnut was once common in the Appalachian Mountain range and was a dominant species in the oak-chestnut forest region of its central and southern range.”
“It is estimated that the blight killed between three and four billion American chestnut trees in the first half of the 20th century, beginning in 1904.[8][9][10] Four mature American chestnuts exist within its former range, although many stumps and root systems continue to send up saplings. Most of these saplings get infected by chestnut blight, which girdles and kills them before they attain maturity.”
USES
Furniture and other wood products
edit. The January 1888 issue of Orchard and Garden mentions the American chestnut as being "superior in quality to any found in Europe".[143] The wood is straight-grained, strong, and easy to saw and split, and it lacks the radial end grain found on most other hardwoods. The tree was particularly valuable commercially since it grew at a faster rate than oaks.[21] Being rich in tannins, the wood was highly resistant to decay and therefore used for a variety of purposes, including furniture, split-rail fences, shingles, home construction, flooring, piers, plywood, paper pulp, and telephone poles. Tannins were also extracted from the bark for tanning leather.[3] Although larger trees are no longer available for milling, much chestnut wood has been reclaimed from historic barns to be refashioned into furniture and other items.[144]
"Wormy" chestnut refers to a defective grade of wood that has insect damage, having been sawn from long-dead, blight-killed trees. This "wormy" wood has since become fashionable for its rustic character.
As European settlers arrived and displaced native peoples, they learned that chestnut wood was rot-resistant, straight-grained, and suitable for furniture, fencing, and building materials. It was preferred for log cabin foundations, fence posts, flooring, and caskets. Later, railroad ties and both telephone and telegraph poles were made from chestnut, many of which are still in use today.
American chestnut (Castanea dentata) was once a climax forest tree in the oak-chestnut dry woodlands of the eastern United States, but since the recognition of the chestnut blight in1904 in New York, the entire forest population has been destroyed. Most of the intact, living trees in the wild were gone by the 1950s, and all that remains today are a few stump sprouts that still linger (attaining heights of about 25 feet before they succumb to the fungus). Breeding programs that have introduced resistance genes from Japanese and Chinese chestnuts into moderately resistant strains of American chestnut have met with some success, but the ultimate goal of large scale re-introduction into forests will not occur for some time, if ever.”
🪵 🌲 🪵 🌳 AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOR SALE!!!!! Serious Inquires only!!!!! Over 2,000 board feet of tongue and groove available and over 900 board feet of 2” thick material available!!!!!!!!! 🪵 🌲 🪵 🌳
It came from a mid to late 1800’s house in rural West Virginia!!!!!!!
