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walnut tree
danielgage
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I cut some walnut trees
do any of you know where or how to market them?
I am in Northeast Arkansas
I just hate to cut them up into fire wood
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Put them on C-list. A friend sold some last Fall to a big sawmill and got a pretty good price. It depends on how they grade.
Walnut doesn't make very good firewood.
22 million BTU per cord. Not as good as oak but lots better than poplar. I burn a lot of black walnut in the wood stove.
If the tree grew in somebody's yard the sawmill doesn't want it, somebody might have put a screw eye into it 30 years ago for a clothes line, or some kids might have built a tree house in it, years ago, there could be some 16d nails buried 8 inches deep inside the wood. It needs to have grown in the middle of the forest.
What diameter are the trees?
PM me sizes of logs, etc. I've got a friend who has a bandsaw mill and we might be interested.
Search web for "log buyers near me" and you might find someone.
With the value of Walnut a good mill will have the means to metal check the logs. Most of the old ore docks in Ashland Wis. were sawed into lumber, and they had many objects to avoid.
it is in a fence row but I have cut some big limbs that had no metal in them
Check for black stains in bottom of first log.
Fence row, yikes watch out.
Not positive about walnut but I do know oak will let you know if it has steel in it.
Firewood material here in SW MO. Cedar is worth some $$ because of all the Cedar siding / closet companies in the area.
Thanks for the pix. Sorry, but they're not big enough for saw logs.
Might make turning pieces, but firewood may be the best plan.
They logged out some woods by me about 20 years ago, 400 oak and around 200 walnut. Large logging operations will not fool around with just a couple of trees, and the only thing they take is the trunk that are straight, they just leave the limbs, no matter how good they look.
When milling logs to hit a nail or and old fence that has been swallowed up by tree over years cost thousands of dollars in replacing the blade and time. As they told me, the logs were shipped to the coast and loaded onto a ship and sent to Japan and were milled on the ship on their way.
As far as firewood walnut doesn’t burn very well compared to oak or elm.
Saw milled a bit in the past, sawed most every piece of lumber for my house including trim and paneling.
Sawing a big white pine and all of a sudden zing, pow, shazam. Hit one of those big ole porceline? insulators, the one with the big lag screw in the center, log was about 32 inches through and the "thing" was almost 16 inches into the tree. Pine trees don't show metal stains. Yep new set of bits but no saw damage.
Hated filing a saw but it was sometimes entertaining, turkeys would gobble every time the file crossed the tooth.