When I was on a firewood crew out of Merced, way back, we took out an English walnut orchard that had 4 huge black/Claro walnuts. We contacted Calico Hardwoods (gunstock mfg) in Santa Rosa and they came down with 2 flatbeds and a loader. Wrote the farmer a $4,000 check.This one’s kinda local. I’m surprised, I thought it was only a northeast thing.
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When I was on a firewood crew out of Merced, way back, we took out an English walnut orchard that had 4 huge black/Claro walnuts. We contacted Calico Hardwoods (gunstock mfg) in Santa Rosa and they came down with 2 flatbeds and a loader. Wrote the farmer a $4,000 check.
turned out they travel quite a distance for good trees…Ca, Or, Nev, wherever.
There was another tree taken down at a nearby farm, near 12’ at the base, they had to quarter the main trunk to get it loaded. English Walnut. The company , not Calico, that did the removal paid the owner $10k. No cost to the owner. Crazy deal back then.Although likely to still be true, do you see someone with the capability to safely remove a tree in a neighborhood, with insurance, etc paying $1,000 to remove the tree. Maybe the homeowner can pay a tree service to remove the tree and stack the logs up, then the homeowner can contact a hardwoods company to come get it, and pay him accordingly.
Best I ever do is make nice chipper piles right where it dropsThe most I do so that I can "have" wood for free is carrying the brush to the corner of the yard.
Calico had an extensive catalog of exotics back then. Now they stick with Claro Walnut and a few other domestics.Seems like a lot of gunstock and grip makers these days use a lot of South American woods.
...and were sloppy about it as well... Anyone that would take a used mattress, I'd worry about anyway.Looks like they MADE kids on it!
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