Found a little Walnut

[ChrisHager]

I have a friend that lives about an hour away with a bunch of Walnut trees on his property that he's wanting to get rid of. He's not in a huge rush but is tired of all the walnuts falling to the ground. Some of the trees have seen their day and are starting to take damage from storms. The one we dropped Saturday was starting to rot/hollow out in the base of it.

We were working with a Stihl 029 and 170. My 170 had a new 16" chain and bar. I gave that to my friend to work the limbs over. I was using my Grandpa's 029. It was cutting funky though so I let my friend finish up with the 170. I was honestly shocked at how well it was cutting. He ended up taking down the stump with it!

The tree didn't look too big until it hit the ground. My friend said it was the slowest fall he'd ever seen. Anyway, here are a few pictures.

Two of us cutting and one burning the brush had this on the ground, cut, loaded, and cleaned up in about 2 hours. Not too bad I don't think.

I only had my Jeep and my Grandpa's small trailer to haul with. On the way home, we stopped at my friend's parent's farm to shoot some trap so I snagged another pic.

And here it is split/stacked. My Fiskars x27 made quick work of the big logs.

I have another half load or so of the Walnut to haul home. The picture above measures to about 8' x 4' x 16" (~1/3 cord?).

I have quite a bit more random wood to split/stack. I decided to move my wood pile since I am starting with all new wood (finally got rid of all the old, nasty wood left behind by the previous owners). I'm hoping to have about 3 rows deep of wood that needs to season and next to it have 3 rows deep of seasoned wood. If that works out, I'll swap back and forth each year.

For the record, there's a chance I've been bitten by the firewood bug...

 

[trophyhunter]

Thats a nice manageable load for that truck and trailer, good score! I topped off the stove this am with some walnut and headed outside to work for the day, that smells so good when ya get a whiff of it.

 

[Davej_07]

I burn a lot of walnut due to the fact that the family farm is LOADED with them. I keep the crotchy stuff for my lathe and mill the occasional trunk section, the rest is firewood.
Dave

 

[zogger]

Good score and good pics! I like walnut OK, got some big deadfall branches "squirreled" away for retrieval sometime.

 

[Whitespider]

I took down about a dozen walnut leaning over the north edge of my yard this early fall... filthy things. Pulled them so they dropped into the woodlot and weeds with a redirect pulley and cable, then drug them out a bit at a time cutting 8-foot logs... when I got close to the PITA tops/small stuff I quit... left them lay. Planning on lighting the whole north edge of the yard on fire next winter to finish the clean-up. Still have one more to take down, too big for redirect (about 24" DBH), so I'm waiting for yard to freeze.

Walnut really makes a horrible "yard" tree... good riddance! I tried giving all those logs away... but no takers. Most likely will make them into firewood someday this winter when I'm bored and lookin' for something to do. I don't mind burning walnut, but it leaves so much ash behind I feel like I'm haulin' it out every day... probably mix it in with the standing-dead elm next year.

 

[Mac88]

Walnut really makes a horrible "yard" tree... good riddance! I tried giving all those logs away...

Don't you know about that "highly valuable walnut"? If you had advertised them on CL, some arborist would have come along and paid you for the pleasure of taking them down and hauling them away. :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Whitespider]

Don't you know about that "highly valuable walnut"? ...some arborist would have come along and paid you for the pleasure of taking them down and hauling them away.

Yeah right!:msp_sneaky:! I have yet to come across any of that "highly valuable walnut"... LOL

One of the neighbors fenced in his yard this summer (transplanted city guy, but he's OK)... I heard his saw running, jumped on the golf cart with a couple friendly beers loaded on board, and headed over to investigate (I was snoopin'). Seen the big walnut coming down as I made the turn at the end of the road... probably 25-26 inches diameter. He was stepping off the trunk as I pulled up, turns to me and with this huge smile says, "14 feet... that should more than pay for my new fence."
"Really", I says, "how much ya' figure it's worth?"
"Ohhhh..... gotta' be worth a couple grand at least."
I started laughing (couldn't help myself) and handed him a beer. Between the giggles I managed to ask, "To who?"
His answer was a blank stare... and the log is still laying in his yard.

 

[Davej_07]

Yeah right!:msp_sneaky:! I have yet to come across any of that "highly valuable walnut"... LOL

One of the neighbors fenced in his yard this summer (transplanted city guy, but he's OK)... I heard his saw running, jumped on the golf cart with a couple friendly beers loaded on board, and headed over to investigate (I was snoopin'). Seen the big walnut coming down as I made the turn at the end of the road... probably 25-26 inches diameter. He was stepping off the trunk as I pulled up, turns to me and with this huge smile says, "14 feet... that should more than pay for my new fence."
"Really", I says, "how much ya' figure it's worth?"
"Ohhhh..... gotta' be worth a couple grand at least."
I started laughing (couldn't help myself) and handed him a beer. Between the giggles I managed to ask, "To who?"
His answer was a blank stare... and the log is still laying in his yard.

My grandpa had the idea that his walnut trees were going to be worth SO much that he planted just about every walnut that the squirrels didn't get to first. Most of them are crooked and not what I would consider good for lumber. He had someone quote him for harvesting a bunch of thm once.......theyd give him 25.00/ tree. I think this was the reason for grandpas second heart attack.......oh the man was SO crestfallen......

Well, Grandpa has since come to the clearing at the end of the path, and Grandma has no love for the trees so I get to harvest just about as much as I want. It's so funny, because she always sarcastically says "that's some awfully expensive firewood you have."

Dave

 

[ChrisHager]

Haha that's pretty good. Most of this I'll burn up in the fireplace next winter. I'm sure it'll make some good bonfire wood as well.

My brother is interested in some of the bigger rounds for guitar blanks. Might be an interesting wood for a guitar!

 

[Butch(OH)]

Just about 20 years ago to the day that I bought my little 53 acre farm. One year later I watched 3 semi loads and a tandem of cut logs leave the place, 90% Walnut 75% verneer. Two weeks later I had a check in hand and one week later I owned the place free and clear:msp_smile:

Just about ready to be cut again,,, realy that cheap eh? $25 a tree? They pay more than that for Sycamore last I knew. Guess we will not be looging soon.

 

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