On topic ... How bout some walnut???
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On topic ... How bout some walnut???
This single tree came into the shop today. American Black Walnut and about as big as they come.
My boss likes to play with wood!!
The one single big log has 1225 board feet in it.
The branches are larger than most trees people want sawed for gunstocks.
Anybody need any wood? PM me and I will put you in contact with the boss.
My boss likes to play with wood!!
The one single big log has 1225 board feet in it.
The branches are larger than most trees people want sawed for gunstocks.
Anybody need any wood? PM me and I will put you in contact with the boss.
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Wood
Who got the stump??? Tom.
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What do you think it's worth? $50-60,000?
I heard of a couple who has some rural land in Indiana, they planted black walnut trees all over it when they were first married.
At the time they figured $10,000 per tree, that was 25 years ago.
I heard of a couple who has some rural land in Indiana, they planted black walnut trees all over it when they were first married.
At the time they figured $10,000 per tree, that was 25 years ago.
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Unfortunately the tree is worth a lot more in veneer than it is for stocks
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It grows real well here, but I've never seen any even close to that size. I didn't know walnut would get that big!Tristan wrote:Great looking chunks of wood! If it takes 1y per inch, our grandkids might have a shot at it...
Does black walnut grow in Tennessee? I'm thinking of moving to Tenn., and it might make a nice present to my kids if I plant a bunch of Walnut for them to inherit!
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Walnut
The bottom fell out of the Walnut market a few years back. Cherry logs went way up, and Walnut went down. Walnut has been making a come back over the past year or so. But it is no where near it's high's.
They left the most valuable piece of wood in the forest. Walnut is Bi-Symmetrical in growth. That means that one side tends to mimick the other side. That is one of the reasons Walnut used to be used so much in fine furniture. The stump would be worth a lot more than all the boards they will cut from those logs.
Most saw mills will not even buy Walnut, because most of the Walnut comes from old fence rows. The old timer's planted Black Walnut(Juglans Nigra) along their fenceline to kill weeds. As most of you know Juglans means poison in Latin. Walnut puts out a poison through it's roots that kills neighboring foliage. that is why you will never see a Walnut tree by a garden.
The sawmills do not want the Walnut logs because too many of them have old wire in them. By the looks of that tree I would say it was originally grown in or near a field, and not in the forest. The reason for that is because of the short butt log. If you guy's think about it. A Walnut tree grown in the woods grows tall and straight. Where a Walnut grown in or near a fence grows large in diameter, short in stature, and spreads out significantly.
That butt log may have some Veneer value. But you would probably be lucky to get a couple of thousand dollars if you owned those logs and wanted to sell them. The sawyer will make more money, but he has to take the chance of wire being in the logs. Tom.
They left the most valuable piece of wood in the forest. Walnut is Bi-Symmetrical in growth. That means that one side tends to mimick the other side. That is one of the reasons Walnut used to be used so much in fine furniture. The stump would be worth a lot more than all the boards they will cut from those logs.
Most saw mills will not even buy Walnut, because most of the Walnut comes from old fence rows. The old timer's planted Black Walnut(Juglans Nigra) along their fenceline to kill weeds. As most of you know Juglans means poison in Latin. Walnut puts out a poison through it's roots that kills neighboring foliage. that is why you will never see a Walnut tree by a garden.
The sawmills do not want the Walnut logs because too many of them have old wire in them. By the looks of that tree I would say it was originally grown in or near a field, and not in the forest. The reason for that is because of the short butt log. If you guy's think about it. A Walnut tree grown in the woods grows tall and straight. Where a Walnut grown in or near a fence grows large in diameter, short in stature, and spreads out significantly.
That butt log may have some Veneer value. But you would probably be lucky to get a couple of thousand dollars if you owned those logs and wanted to sell them. The sawyer will make more money, but he has to take the chance of wire being in the logs. Tom.
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SOMEBODY ought to count the rings on that tree - one that big around here would have been firewood-sized during George Washington's day!
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HEAD0001 is right on. This tree grew in the country side near Vancouver WA. but the town grew around it and it became a hazard. We have a big wind storm here about every 5-10 years and the insurance people won`t alow a hazard to stay for long.
The stump is in a location where it cant be saved (I am told).
The log James in triming in the pic. is 57" in dia. 11' long .
A couple years ago, we cut a Walnut log almost this big. The trunk log was 16' long and the saw hit 36 16 penny nails in one pass on that log.
I got it for free and cut it into stock blanks with my chain saw. Had some nice blanks in it.
Kids like to build tree houses in those big "squirrl ladders". I found a couple of .22 bullets in it also when I ran them through the planer.
The stump is in a location where it cant be saved (I am told).
The log James in triming in the pic. is 57" in dia. 11' long .
A couple years ago, we cut a Walnut log almost this big. The trunk log was 16' long and the saw hit 36 16 penny nails in one pass on that log.
I got it for free and cut it into stock blanks with my chain saw. Had some nice blanks in it.
Kids like to build tree houses in those big "squirrl ladders". I found a couple of .22 bullets in it also when I ran them through the planer.
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Has any body seen an English walnut grafted to a black walnut? Has anyone had an english walnut tree cut up? The wife's Granddad did some grafting, the English walnut will grow what looks like 2 or 3 times the diameter of the black walnut. There are a few of these in the pecan orchard she inherited, my problem is I don,t know of a place that buys either kind of walnut nut in south central Oklahoma. He also planted some English walnut nuts, the one we pulled up, stump and all, was about 16" in diameter. They let the BIL pick up pecans before we got the place and he cut most of the English trees up. There are plenty of Wild trees down on the creek, when one washes out and falls in we drag it up and have it sawn into blanks. One that fell in the creek was a grafted tree, the wood w/ the graft line sure makes pretty lumber. I have only been able to get two maybe three fancy stocks out of one tree and that is if I get to stand there as it is sawn and tell them how I want it. Most of it is straight as a string, but those are the fast easy stocks to build. Abilene
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