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Snapped a pic yesterday. I have a good bit of walnut that looks like this. Is this stuff people are willing to pay for?
 
Those might be bigger than they look. Make sure theyre released and get some gains. Nice looking logs.
 
They look good, just a bit young. Release those skinny walnuts, and let them put on a bit more girth. If you take down some lesser quality walnuts in order to release the nice ones with clean logs, you can cut them into rifle stock blanks or even pen blanks and sell them online. It won't fetch a huge pile of money, but it will give you the most value added for what you have.
 
Good call guys. Exactly my plan. You can’t see it there but I’ve girdled several large sycamores in there last year. I was going to take the excavator and clean up all the brushy trees growing in there this off season. It’s a nice stand of walnuts. I think I underestimated how many are in there. Probably closer to 30-40
 
It scares me to imagine how much I’d pay for a stand of 30-40 mature walnuts (or hickory or Oak) on the center of my 275 acres of basswood, maple, aspen and hemlock! Definitely enough to get me on the razors edge of divorce.
 
Any benefit to cutting the lower limbs or fertilizing younger walnuts? I walked our place recently and found several trees that I could barely get my arms around and touch palms on the other side. A friend of mine said they'd probably need 15 more years. Wondering if that can be sped up some.
 
Catscratch said:
Any benefit to cutting the lower limbs or fertilizing younger walnuts? I walked our place recently and found several trees that I could barely get my arms around and touch palms on the other side. A friend of mine said they'd probably need 15 more years. Wondering if that can be sped up some.
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Cut the lower limbs for sure. A clean log will get a better price. I know people fertilize seedlings to get them started a bit faster, but I don't know about fertilizing mature trees. I've read several times that watering mature trees during dry years can be beneficial.
 
Catscratch said:
Any benefit to cutting the lower limbs or fertilizing younger walnuts? I walked our place recently and found several trees that I could barely get my arms around and touch palms on the other side. A friend of mine said they'd probably need 15 more years. Wondering if that can be sped up some.
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If they are that big already I don't think it'd be beneficial from a veneer standpoint to trim the lower limbs. I've heard when it comes time to grade the tree that any sign of the limb once being there (scar, catface) that it's the same as the limb being there.
 
I think veneer logs also have to be a lot bigger in order to cut veneers. It might be pretty tricky to cut veneers off a narrow diameter log.
 
Telemark said:
I think veneer logs also have to be a lot bigger in order to cut veneers. It might be pretty tricky to cut veneers off a narrow diameter log.
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Much, much bigger. When I was doing my apprenticeship we had a tour of a veneer mill. The logs were probably a minimum of 2 feet in diameter on the small end. They were steamed for a length of time then put on the lathe to be turned. The turning was stopped when the log was about 8 inches in diameter.
Walnut typically has allot of sap wood that wouldn't be used for veneer.
 
I read somewhere a guy planted 8 acres of black walnut & 8 acres of black cherry like 20 years ago . Not 100% sure on year or acres… but he estimated the value in the hundreds of thousands in X amount of years .

I wish I could find that article.

Nice rows and managed every year, mowing etc…

It was interesting!
 
bwoods11 said:
I read somewhere a guy planted 8 acres of black walnut & 8 acres of black cherry like 20 years ago . Not 100% sure on year or acres… but he estimated the value in the hundreds of thousands in X amount of years .

I wish I could find that article.

Nice rows and managed every year, mowing etc…

It was interesting!
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I considered doing that. Looked into the best trees to buy and everything. Called a local forester just to check (I'd read on the internet 40 yrs would get you to harvest). He said that in my location it would take 80. 80yrs of cattle seemed like a better alternative.
 
bwoods11 said:
I read somewhere a guy planted 8 acres of black walnut & 8 acres of black cherry like 20 years ago . Not 100% sure on year or acres… but he estimated the value in the hundreds of thousands in X amount of years .

I wish I could find that article.

Nice rows and managed every year, mowing etc…

It was interesting!
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95% of the black walnut farms Ive driven past have been neglected. Imagine the planter is no longer manager. The few pretty ones are a sight to behold.
 
I’ve got two real big ones in my yard as well as a massive oak tree and a couple of cherry. But they would probably be considered yard trees.
 
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