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Lilly, Cert, Mike...walnuts?

Red Robin

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Are there many walnut trees where you live (or anyone else for that matter). Walnut lumber is outrageous. One tree can bring a couple thousand dollars if it's a big one. They are buying walnuts here currently. They bring 13 dollars per hundred after the hull is removed, just the walnut intact without the green hull around it. There's a lot of bend-overs in a ten dollar bill picking up walnuts.
 

IL Rancher

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You refering th Black Walnut or English Walnut RR? We have tons of black walnut on this farm. I would say more than half of the hardwoods are Black Walnuts in this half of the place with Hickory in second place. We lost a lot of young Walnut trees last winter for some reason but they are still thick in our timber... The big ones were harvested before we moved in but they missed a dew patches... The old owner was an absentee guy and a few years back there was a theft problem of them because the wood was real, real expensive... He eneded up building small pastures and wintering his bulls under them... That seemed to do thet trick.
 

cert

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Red Robin, we have walnut trees on the hillsides here. We logged out one place a few years back, the walnuts brought the premium then too. And the cherry trees.

I steer clear of the walnut mulch or sawdust for the horses. It will poision them thru their hooves. And forget about planting flowers under them. NOTHING grows under a walnut tree.

The tree is kinda ugly in my opinion. The leaves fall off early and don't turn any color but brown in the fall. My Grandmother had one in the yard. They are messy yard trees too.

The good thing is they grow fast. They can hit 60ft before you know it and you can harvest them again.

Surely you have walnut trees where you are?
 

Red Robin

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Black walnut. I didn't know english were a native tree. I don't know why. I guess because we don't have any here. I think walnut lumber is 600 dollars per thousand board feet (could be wrong) here currently. It was 400 dollars I think 4 years ago. I guess it takes 50 years for one to be a mature size saw log. If you're young you'll have some high priced timber in a few years.
 

Red Robin

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cert said:
Red Robin, we have walnut trees on the hillsides here. We logged out one place a few years back, the walnuts brought the premium then too. And the cherry trees.

I steer clear of the walnut mulch or sawdust for the horses. It will poision them thru their hooves. And forget about planting flowers under them. NOTHING grows under a walnut tree.

The tree is kinda ugly in my opinion. The leaves fall off early and don't turn any color but brown in the fall. My Grandmother had one in the yard. They are messy yard trees too.

The good thing is they grow fast. They can hit 60ft before you know it and you can harvest them again.

Surely you have walnut trees where you are?
Yes Cert, we have walnuts. I just didn't know how wide spread they were. I knew or at least thought you had them. I didn't know if Lilly or Mike did. I suspect they do. Interestingly, they take the shelled walnut hulls here to a dirt race track to keep the dust down. Looks like they'd be slick to me. I knew nothing would grow in the hulls . I didn't know they'd poison a horse...then again what won't poison a horse! Those dirty suckers are looking for a good place to die.
 

fedup2

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I think your numbers are off a little RR. Walnut at one of my local lumber yards is well over $5 per board foot. I can buy it at a hardwood specialty store for $4.20. Take that number times your thousand board ft. and you will come up with a heck of a lot more than $600. Your trees are worth more than you think.
Almost all my projects are walnut or red oak. The root part of the tree is sought after for its burl and will make some beautiful gunstocks.

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after thinking about it, I wonder if you meant that is what the landowner was paid? My screwup!
 

Red Robin

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You are correct fedup2. That price is on the farm. Interestingly we offered the stumps but no one would dig them for free. I guess you have to have a market for the burl wood or a way to saw them or something. The timber boys own a back hoe and all they had to do was dig the stumps and fill the hole.
 

IL Rancher

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English Walnuts aren't native but they are "wild" someplaces just like English Oaks and a few other trees...

Well... young.. .sure, I will make a killing on those trees when I am 80, lol...

The hull make a great coer scent for deer hunting if you are hunting around black walnuts... Just put the hulls in with your hunting clothes and everything will stink like that, lol... We used to round some up for my mother in law's uncle so his wife could make black walnut cookies.. Unfortunately he passed a couple years ago from a brain tumour.
 

fedup2

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Did a little searching on that & I find that although the stumps are highly desired, there is such a limited market that no one wants to fool with it. Kind of limited to hobby woodworkers, turners, etc. Another article stated that most outfits don’t want to fool with a few trees. Costs to much to move equipment in etc.

Said they wanted large stands of trees. Not farmyard shade trees etc. To many foreign objects in the farm trees like wire, nails, scrap iron, etc. These objects explode the $1400-1500 blades and injure workers. I guess that is why some radical tree huggers spike trees that are being logged.

Lots of good articles on this. I find it amazing, the amount of information on any subject you can find on the internet. If a person only had the time! (I am also amazed at how little I know of this world! As always, I have way more questions than answers!)
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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There are a few Black Walnut trees around here. Daddy in law makes gun stocks out of them. He cut a perdy good size one down quite a few years ago, and it's kept him in plenty of wood for stocks. Most of the one's I know of are in peoples yards. But there are a few still out in pastures. I've heard neighbors talkin about it before. I don't think we have any on our place tho. We have a ton of Hickory trees tho.
 

OldDog/NewTricks

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English Walnuts are a graft on Blk Walnuts Stumps

We have not sold E.Walnuts for some time now.

I would posion Squirrels all year. Then I would load up 4, 1/2 bens of Dried Nuts on a trailer and set along a road side (as the Farmer) in the Bay Area and sell 50# Bags of Dried Nuts to the Tree Huggers for 65¢ per Lb :)

We were getting 30¢ from the field - 10¢ cost for drying = .25¢+ extra profit $2500. per weekend x 4 weekends = extra (Christmas money)

We'd use it for Packing in Xmas Presents we mail
We still use Garlic.

Some times I think they like the produce more that our CheepA$$ presents
 
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