They look great, but cut many logs just the same for $275 a cord. We never messed with little logs like yours we only cut the trunks for lumber. The trunks would be as small as 4' across with the larger ones at 10'. I was only aware of them being cut into gun stocks. The average trunks were about $6,000 to $8,000. Of course I only got the fire wood. Thanks
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They look great, but cut many logs just the same for $275 a cord. We never messed with little logs like yours we only cut the trunks for lumber. The trunks would be as small as 4' across with the larger ones at 10'. I was only aware of them being cut into gun stocks. The average trunks were about $6,000 to $8,000. Of course I only got the fire wood. Thanks
My buddy found a buyer for the log i posted pics of last week. the guy offered him $130 for the log and $100 for the leaner in the left of the pic. the buyer will take down the leaner.
It looks pretty cool burning in a pit/or a stove
.I had a nice sized piece of it I brought to another member to mill up, I'm sure it would be some beautiful boards @Sawyer Rob .
That's funny Steve, when I looked at the picture all I saw was the one tree standing in the yard, I thought that's not a walnut, thats black locust
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Sometimes house, buildings, and property owners block the value of walnut trees. Three years ago a tree removal company gave me all the black walnut trees they cut down in a homeowner's back yard. It was impossible to move the long logs out with any heavy equipment, such as a picker truck, because the house blocked off the in and out. The owner said he wanted no damage to the lawn, so we couldn't even drag them out with a pickup truck.
I ended up bucking them all into rounds, hoisting them onto a wheel barrow, and carrying the rounds one at a time to the front and then loading them onto the truck. That was work.
I ended up bucking them all into rounds, hoisting them onto a wheel barrow, and carrying the rounds one at a time to the front and then loading them onto the truck. That was work.
That's what LOML and all my friends said also when I told them what I had done. The total was six mounded up truckloads of rounds that yielded over five cords of splits. At least no customer complained whenever they burned it, and I imagine I knocked off two pounds of fat weight per truckload.no black walnut is that valuable.
Th only problem with walnut is it make more ash than most, but does burn just fine. Sense the water shortage we have not had a big walnut crop so it might be a while before we have any extra walnut. I am coming across nice Oak now and then, but nice Oak can bring in $500 easy peasy all day every day summer or winter. I do cut some nice Oak slabs for furniture some times. Thanks
I burned some walnut in the fire pit today. lol
I thought I posted this the other day, but if I did I can't find it. BW target for my throwing ax.
Oh, I forgot to tell the forum this one detail. I sold that black walnut for firewood, took in over $1,000 in receipts and used the rest to heat my house, saving another $500. But, I guess that's just a crumb these days.no black walnut is that valuable.
another load of HIGHLY valuable black walnut................................................................. for FIREWOOD!!!! delivered this to my 81 year old lady pyro. she burns her fireplace everynight. 
I found yet another source for black walnut, this time from a blonde who just bought a house not far away. She needs about four BW trees dropped and cleared from the yard, about 18" dia. apiece. Could be an interesting spring -- for firewood collection, of course. Right? I promise to wear blinders while running the saw, the wheelbarrow, etc..
My experience has been that if you have a large amount of Walnut to fill up a decent logging truck it might be possible to sell it. Or if you want to make some nice furniture with it go for it. Otherwise it burns fine too and other pyros enjoy it too. If you wears binders and cut off your leg I do not want to hear about. Your cuts will likely be crooked also. Thanks
saw a tractor trailer load of B/W logs this morning in my travels. nice big stuff. right behind it was a load of serious white oak. the name of the mill on the trucks is about 2 hours north of me so it must have been worthwhile.
I am sure it was for the mill LOL. Maybe or maybe not for the logger.
Today I saw the opposite color -- hard maple ready for the taking on a flat yard out in the country. Not sure why it was ever cut down. Maybe the property owner got tired of looking a it. The tree was about 50 years old. Three trunks going up from the same root ball, the owner's son dropped them, wore out four saw chains, gave up, and called me to clear the rest. Must be five truckloads remaining there, and believe me, it's hard as nails and easily as dense as pin oak.
Check the numbers on hard maple. It's awfully good stuff. Maybe oak or hickory have more BTU/cord but not much and it's a good deal above walnut. I found that you just have to wait about a couple of months before splitting it. That's about it. Cheers!
Multifaceted
Firewood Hoarder, Axe Enthusiast
I've got some black walnut split and stacked from last September that I might have to dig into as I'm about out of seasoned wood...
Now I do have another one that I need to fell, had the top knocked off of it while felling another tree over the summer, but my buddy wants an 8' section to hew into a decorative beam for his kitchen. The rest of it will be split and thrown in the stacks.
Now I do have another one that I need to fell, had the top knocked off of it while felling another tree over the summer, but my buddy wants an 8' section to hew into a decorative beam for his kitchen. The rest of it will be split and thrown in the stacks.
Lookie lookie. A highly valuable black walnut sapling on my property. Maybe one day my kids or their kids can harvest it and become rich off this tree.
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My buddy asked me to take down an old dead tree about 40" in diameter in the main log. I said that's a highly valuable walnut tree . He told me it wasn't a walnut at all. He said it used to grow walnuts but hasn't had any on it in a long time. It's about to be firewood.
