tree of desire

[unclemoustache]

An old man outside of town has this walnut tree that blew over about a year and a half ago. He says he wants to try and sell it for lumber, but told me that if he couldn't sell it I could have it. However, he's never gotten around to asking anyone about it, so there it sits. I drive by this thing just about every day and it drives me nuts to think of all that good firewood with my name on it just sitting there.

 

[rarefish383]

Whether he's contacted anyone or not, doesn't matter, no one will give him a plug nickel for it. No mill will touch a single or yard tree. Walnut is not worth what most people think it is. We've actually had truck loads of logs between 24 and 36 inches, 12' long, and the mills wouldn't offer beans for them. I have all the free Oak I could ever use so I don't want Walnut for firewood. We would wholesale it out to a guy that sold firewood at a farm market, $50 bucks per load, 12' bed 6' high, just to get rid of it. Some one on the Milling forum might pay a little for it. If he told you you could have it for cleaning up the rest of the mess, he's coming out on the good end of the deal.

Another thing to understand about good saw logs is the timber market is verry up and down. If you have a place to store logs you can do OK. We were a relatively small company, 2 crews, with a 5 acre base. Between chips, good firewod, and equipment , we didn't have space or time for the logs. It was easier to just get gas money and wholesale them out, Joe.

 

[MotorSeven]

Don't get too excited there 'stash.....walnut is a soso firewood. Joe is right, the commercial lumber value is very low. He would have been better off contacting a local portable sawyer & even then he would not have made much $. Now that it's been sitting for a year and a half is is only firewood.
Go twist his arm, tell him you have written evidence from renowned lumber experts(us) that it is firewood. Furthermore, he should give it to you before it rots away into termite dust.

RD

 

[J.W Younger]

An old man outside of town has this walnut tree that blew over about a year and a half ago. He says he wants to try and sell it for lumber, but told me that if he couldn't sell it I could have it. However, he's never gotten around to asking anyone about it, so there it sits. I drive by this thing just about every day and it drives me nuts to think of all that good firewood with my name on it just sitting there.

maybe you need to pay him another visit and see what he would be willing to offer you for removeing it now.

 

[unclemoustache]

Hmm. That's too bad. I thought walnut would be pretty good burning.
No, he's not willing to pay to get rid of it, and I wouldn't haul away the brush without getting paid. I'll be nice enough to put it in a single pile, but I'm happy to do that for the free wood.

I also have free access to lots of good oak and hickory, but it's pretty low ground and fairly soggy for much of the year.

How is walnut for ash - does it leave much after it's burnt?

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Well, you can always buy it off him and use it for firewood instead of lumber.... Walnut isn't so great, and it doesn't coal very well-at least not what I've ever had. The other woods that you have access to are much better fuelwood. I can understand your "desire" to get it though-I've had trees like that that I just had to have.

It's been down for a year and a half? Wow...if he's old, not to be smart, but you may need to get an answer quickly if you can have it. I'd talk to him about it again-perhaps he forgot about the whole thing.

Maybe he's willing it to you when he passes...

 

[olyman]

Hmm. That's too bad. I thought walnut would be pretty good burning.
No, he's not willing to pay to get rid of it, and I wouldn't haul away the brush without getting paid. I'll be nice enough to put it in a single pile, but I'm happy to do that for the free wood.

I also have free access to lots of good oak and hickory, but it's pretty low ground and fairly soggy for much of the year.

How is walnut for ash - does it leave much after it's burnt?

i REFUSE to even take walnut anymore, as i dont have the sawmill done yet. and i can tell you--per volume, walnut puts out right at three times the amount of ash--or more---i dont like carrying the 30 gal steel can of ashes out of the basement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[unclemoustache]

i REFUSE to even take walnut anymore, as i dont have the sawmill done yet. and i can tell you--per volume, walnut puts out right at three times the amount of ash--or more---i dont like carrying the 30 gal steel can of ashes out of the basement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ugh! If there's one thing I hate in firewood, it's lots of ash. Sycamore drives me nuts. You couldn't pay me to burn that in the stove. (I don't mind it in the outdoor firepit - heck I'd burn a raccoon out there.)

 

[nomak]

from what I can see of all the knots and holes in it from the pic I wuldnt want it anyways firewood or for lumber... unless theres 50ft of good solid wood in the underbrush... cause up towards the top of tree I see alot of knots and holes wich if havent already lead to rot in the wood or hard spots in it which if anythin like pine theose knots usually work there way out after a while...

 

[boostnut]

Yeah, you'd better move on, you've got much nicer options. Walnut sucks as firewood if ya ask me. Not a ton of heat output but tons and tons of ash.

 

[unclemoustache]

Thanks for all your comments. I'll forget this three and stick with my beloved oak, if only I can have a few weeks of no rain to get in there and cut. :chainsawguy:

 

[unclemoustache]

Extra time this morning before church, so I thought I'd resurrect an 8 year old thread.

The tree is still lying there. It's been cut up a bit, but not removed at all.

 

[c5rulz]

Black Walnut is great for campfire wood. Smells good while burning and has an attractive blue flame.

Here before someone else does:

 

[Marley5]

Rather than let it lay and rot, using it as firewood would be resourceful but having burned my share, i would consider walnut bottom of the barrel firewood, quick burn, ashes galore.....not good.

 

[Streblerm]

There are different species of walnut out there. Some are better firewood than others. A lot of the ash is from the bark. It is thick but peels off pretty easy when it dries.

 

[rarefish383]

LOL, thanks for the update. If it goes much longer it will be highly valuable Black Walnut Mulch.

 

[Marshy]

Work it into the mix of firewood it ain't bad. Better than poplar.

 

[Marine5068]

An old man outside of town has this walnut tree that blew over about a year and a half ago. He says he wants to try and sell it for lumber, but told me that if he couldn't sell it I could have it. However, he's never gotten around to asking anyone about it, so there it sits. I drive by this thing just about every day and it drives me nuts to think of all that good firewood with my name on it just sitting there.

Best go ask him for it then. You could mill some nice boards for making shelves, mantle, tables etc.
It's crappy firewood, just smolders mainly.
There's a big Red Oak fall near me sitting for 3 years now. It's on the roadside but so large that no one has tackled it.

 

[rarefish383]

I just put a small pile of BW on the porch for fire starting wood. Put 3 sheets of printer paper under it and one match, in five minutes it was roaring. This was the cut off blocks from a log I milled for a friend. He wanted 8' boards to make a table and the logs were 13', so I cut a couple blocks off the end so I wasn't milling more than I had to. It air dried in the Oak pile for about 6 months and is dry as a bone. Pieces are about 4" square, does not smolder at all. I would imagine that Unc's 8 year old log might be a sogy mess that would smolder. But, if it was off the ground enough to keep from rotting, it should go fine.

 

[Gypo Logger]

Tell the walnut owner his highly valuable tree ain't worth much because it's a city tree and probably has hardware buried within.