sold walnut trees

[lefties]

sold a few black walnut trees for sons college funds other day. They left me plenty of tops to burn.

 

[GadDummit]

Dang that's purty! Did you sell it as firewood or does someplace want it for decorations?

 

[yinpin]

Interesting. I have a Huge black walnut in my yard, I would hate to see it go but I would be curious what its worth. I would imagine that they are purchased for home or furniture.

 

[lefties]

Dang that's purty! Did you sell it as firewood or does someplace want it for decorations?

sold it to amish for furniture

 

[lefties]

Interesting. I have a Huge black walnut in my yard, I would hate to see it go but I would be curious what its worth. I would imagine that they are purchased for home or furniture.

around 5-6 bf if its veneer

 

[Simonkenton]

What a whopper! What is one of those trees worth?

I have black walnut all over my property, I own hundreds of 'em. But mine aren't that big, mine are 18 inch to 24 inch diameter.
I have whacked several of them to make timbers for my new log cabin and the wood is really beautiful. Sanded it down and coated with satin poly.
Whacked several others because they killed my garden. These trees are really murder on a garden.
So I have been burning black walnut for several years. It is decent firewood, splits easy. Doesn't hold coals as long as hickory, or oak. Holds coals better than pine or poplar.

I am going to stay away from it in the future I am going for the top grade firewood like oak, hickory, and locust.

 

[peakbagger]

There is a thread on another site about a "very valuable walnut tree" and there is even a video somewhere about them. The summary is that rarely are single homeowner walnut trees worth much more then the cost to take them down. On the other hand large straight mature walnuts growing in the woods is another story and can be quite valuable. Looks like the OP actually had a load of "very valuable walnut trees" and more power to him. I hope his son appreciates the college fund contribution.

If someone has hundreds of them it definitely makes sense to bring in a forester to make recommendations on which ones to save and which ones to prune. When they are up to 18 to 24" they definitely are starting to get valuable. Its likely implementing the recommendations which inevitably involves cutting the marginal ones to open up the light to good ones with higher potentialwill take awhile so the firewood will keep flowing.

Long ago I was at an event in PA and there was a walnut specialist that was involved with redeveloping good breeding strains of Walnut through selective breeding. The demand was so high for walnut in the past that the woods had been high graded of the good straight walnut. The remaining trees that had defects tended to survive and propagate their marginal genes so the overall gene pool was impacted. The speaker was affiliated with a state university that was in the process of getting the good genes back in the pool but unfortunately it requires generations due to the growth cycle of walnuts.

 

[GadDummit]

Looks like the OP actually had a load of "very valuable walnut trees" and more power to him. I hope his son appreciates the college fund contribution.

Exactly that! Congrats on the sale! Those college bills sure can eat up a paycheck, unless you want to take out a bunch of loans and then the poor kid is harnessed for the next 50 years. Been there, done that! (but without the wood, haha!)

 

[tadmaz]

There are books you can get from your local library that talk about "how to manage your woodlot." They talk about timber harvests extensively. 10" + diameter logs that are straight are considered sawlogs, obviously the more diameter the better. The books also talk a lot about removing poor/weak genetics similar to what peakbagger is referring to. You definitely don't want to high grade or your woodlot will be messed up for decades/future generations. I'd be curious what the OP got per sawlog and how many sawlogs in total were sold.

 

[lefties]

There are books you can get from your local library that talk about "how to manage your woodlot." They talk about timber harvests extensively. 10" + diameter logs that are straight are considered sawlogs, obviously the more diameter the better. The books also talk a lot about removing poor/weak genetics similar to what peakbagger is referring to. You definitely don't want to high grade or your woodlot will be messed up for decades/future generations. I'd be curious what the OP got per sawlog and how many sawlogs in total were sold.

i didnt sell many sawlogs,,i sold veneer mostly,dont sell below 24 inch and 30 is much better...shop around and take what your forester says with a grain of salt...do your homework.

 

[tadmaz]

i didnt sell many sawlogs,,i sold veneer mostly,dont sell below 24 inch and 30 is much better...shop around and take what your forester says with a grain of salt...do your homework.

Even better! The books I read said if you can sell as veneer logs that's the best you can do. Any way we can get you to reveal some dollar signs?

 

[lefties]

Even better! The books I read said if you can sell as veneer logs that's the best you can do. Any way we can get you to reveal some dollar signs?

i sold a few trees at 1000 ea and not huge trees....i also sold several at 2000 ea..nuff said?

 

[lefties]

here,,

 

[yinpin]

Congrats on using your resources! I have a big old black walnut tree but it’s true only big one I’ve got. I would miss her....for a little

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[lefties]

i can tell looking,its not that big,and its crooked,and tons of little branches. My trees werent huge trees but they were big with straight trunks and logs for 30 ft on most and big useable branches...the rest that they left me ill burn and sell blanks to bowlmakers etc

 

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[yinpin]

i can tell looking,its not that big,and its crooked,and tons of little branches. My trees werent huge trees but they were big with straight trunks and logs for 30 ft on most and big useable branches...the rest that they left me ill burn and sell blanks to bowlmakers etc

Yeah I guess it isn’t that large and I know it is not a money tree. It’s 11 feet round and killed me with walnuts this year!


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[Kevin Weis]

A lot of walnut goes overseas now. Same with Black Cherry and White Oak. All of that should be about $4.00 per board foot on the stump or more.

 

[lefties]

its much more

 

[sutphenj]

I've sold a handful of walnuts as of late from anywhere from $500-$1,500 per tree. Straight up woods trees not yard trees.

 

[Kevin Weis]

its much more

Yea, that was about 30 years ago the last I was involved with forest management work.

 

[Kevin Weis]

Yinpin, a sawmill will still take that. There are a few in Harford County fairly close by I would think be interested.

 

[Simonkenton]

Here I am sawing out the summerbeam for my log cabin.

And here is the summerbeam installed. The king post is also black walnut.
Summerbeam is 18 inches high and 8 inches thick.

 

[lefties]

nice...its the way filipinos cut lumber...after typhoon yolanda in 2014 we rebuilt house that way.

 

[Dantheman300z]

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Here I am sawing out the summerbeam for my log cabin.


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And here is the summerbeam installed. The king post is also black walnut.
Summerbeam is 18 inches high and 8 inches thick.

Wow, absolutely stunning. How long did you let that beam dry out?