Wanna buy this?

[sleddude5]

Saw this on Craigslist this morning. Almost spit out my coffee.

http://saginaw.craigslist.org/mat/1482505788.html

Makes the tree about 30" in diameter.

Jerry C

 

[lone wolf]

Saw this on Craigslist this morning. Almost spit out my coffee.

http://saginaw.craigslist.org/mat/1482505788.html

Makes the tree about 30" in diameter.

Jerry C

whats it worth to a mill?

 

[matt9923]

whats it worth to a mill?

not much

 

[oldsaw]

whats it worth to a mill?

If it's a yard tree, they won't take it for free if you delivered the log to them. You couldn't even pay them to take it.

If the log was straight and clear, I'd take $250.00 to cut it down and clean it up. Paying 25k for the standing tree...he's on drugs. I've cut up a lot of free walnuts that size or larger.

 

[irishcountry]

Wow he/she is on drugs the economy is in the tank in Mi. and they think someone will pay to remove a large tree even a walnut ?? My guess they won't get much response and will have to repost.

 

[sleddude5]

I have no idea what this dude is thinking. Maybe he thinks has wooden gold growing in his yard or something.

Jerry C

 

[BlueRidgeMark]

The posting is gone. My guess is a few people emailed him to tell him how whacked he is.

 

[ROOTSXROCKS]

I get this all the time with palm trees that are to big , sure you have to pay 5k for one but that is because it takes such big equipment to handle it.

I might be able to sell it but it will take several man hours a crane and a truck, plus I have to back fill the hole. and then I have to have all that again if I am lucky enough to sell it.

and quite frankly those big spectacular palms are rarely a profit maker, they are generally put in at near cost because they make the job. the profit is made on the rest of the material and design.


I might take out a walnut for free if the wood was great and I had a mill. but if he wants to profit he will need to do all that himself.

I see the ad has been removed now LOL.

 

[gr8scott72]

The posting is gone. My guess is a few people emailed him to tell him how whacked he is.

Guilty. I emailed him and asked if the trunk was hollow and then filled with gold.

Told him he probably wouldn't even get 1% of that price.

 

[mikeb1079]

that's a pretty funny c-list ad. brings up an interesting point though, in that i've noticed alot of ads around my locale (south central wi) posted by folks who have walnut trees in/on their yards/land that they want you to pay them to have. now, i can see someone charging for hardwood for firewood if the wood is already cut and split because you're paying for their labor. what i don't get, though, is why someone would think that me or anyone would PAY
them money to do all that work. as a tree stands it has no monetary value whatsoever, it has potential value that someone can bring out of it with labor. what might be reasonable is posting an ad trying to get someone to remove it for free if it is a quality tree. they'd save some cash and get rid of the tree to boot. i'm just not sure why everyone with a walnut/oak/cherry thinks he's got a thousand dollar tree. anyways,

 

[oldsaw]

CL is full of people with trees that they don't want to pay someone to take down. I love the ones where the trees are a tight takedown where you need a crane, climber, and a groundie or two, and they'll be willing to let you keep the wood. Most of them lately have been walnuts, like they are doing you a favor.

My standard deal is that I will tip the tree if it's in the clear, I'll get rid of the trunk and major branches, and leave a brush pile that they can haul out themselves. Same deal with a blowdown, it has to be clear of buildings or powerlines, etc. Like I tell most of them, "I'll make most of your problem go away for free." That is usually pretty attractive to them. If they are using a tree service, I'll tell them to put the logs next to the street, or leave room for me to do it, and they will disappear, saving them money.

People just don't get it.

 

[treemandan]

I had to satisfy my curiousity so I put an ad on Cl, read something like this:

Black Walnut
I was wondering if anyone out there ever had any luck selling tree like this. Please email me if you have any experiance.

I got a few responses, a few people saying they thought it was funny some that people thought they could sell the tree on CL, some of some links where it may be possible to find a buyer and one from this dude that said I was a pencil pushing desk jockey and I should do some real work. I sent that guy a pic of The Dan 40 feet up on 2 1/2 ' dia poplar with a section on the crane.

 

[rarefish383]

This is the band wagon I always jump on. I'm retired from residential tree removal. We always got calls of "how much will YOU give me to take down my GIANT-DEAD-Oak tree. All up over my house and don't hurt my slate roof. You can sell the fire wood.".

So, I'm to bring a crew of men, chipper truck, stump grinder, maybe a 50 ton crain rental @$814 for 4hrs, take down the tree (don't break the slate roof), load the wood on a truck, take it back to the yard, unload it, split it, load it back up and get $200 a cord?

Even if the tree was loaded with gold, all it would do is dull my saws, and put me deeper in the hole.

First rule of life. Never Pay Someone To Let You Do Hard Work. If your in it for the log or fire wood, charge them 3 times what you think its worth. That's still gonna be half what a licenesed tree co will charge, and hope you don't get killed for being in over your head.

Seriously, I took down 3 Black Walnuts in my neighbors front yard. They were the last of a clump the original farm owner had planted as a cash crop for his grand kids. My 36 inch bar wouldn't go through at chest height. I cut them in 8'8" lenghts, went over them with a my metal detector, and stacked them by the drive way where a knuckle boom could grab them. Called every mill in the book and no one wanted them. Restacked them out of the way. A couple years later another neighbor cut them up for fire wood, Joe.

 

[sleddude5]

"Never Pay Someone To Let You Do Hard Work."

Simply and beautifully stated. I have bought into that ideal 100%.

Jerry C

 

[Mike Van]

I think that years ago someone started an urban myth about a walnut tree that a gun mfg. paid umpteen thousands of dollars for to make stocks out of. If they did or didn't, who knows? The myth survived. Now, if you had a composite resin tree growing in your yard, whoh boy, the stocks they could make from that! :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[rarefish383]

Mike, now that you brought that urban legend up, my dad had some stock maker offer him pretty decent money for walnut stumps. He said he would dig them out by hand. This might have been in the early 70's. We didn't run into that many big Walnuts and we couldn't tie a job up while he dug out the stump. We never followed up, probably because it wasn't crazy money, Joe.