Million Dollar Walnut???

[isawlogs]

 Danny ,
  make it easy on you, give me a 10% down and i will water the seedlings that wil be sowed to make those tres in a few years, I will also do my best to keep the lawn mower from cutting any of them.
  this way you have some time to put up a devoted building to stack and dry these megga dollar investments. Just saying, I don't do these deals to too many folks now, just those I think might have a chance at taken me up on them.   

[easymoney]

he might just have to advertise his trees on ebay or craigs list. i have saw people asking a lot of money for yard trees. they want money for them and you are supposed to remove the brush and grind the stump. also do not leave any tracks behind either.

[Bandmill Bandit]

I had a local guy ask me for a thousand bucks for a big old rotten black poplar that fell on his house and puched a big hole in his roof in a bad wind storm. He wanted me to clean it up and take out the stump and every thing and I was suppose to pay him a 1000 bucks to for the privilege

i gave him the number of a tree service guy that is a friend of mine. when it was all over it cost him just over 5000 to get it cleaned up and I could a had the tree fro free but I didn't want it. The roof stiil isnt properly fixed because it did some serious damage to a couple of the main support beams in the vaulted area of the house. Dont know this for a fact but the word is that the repair is gona be over 20,000 cause they have to replace the beams to keep the vaulted ceiling. it in an insurance claim now form what i have been told but tha insurance doesnt cover the tree removal and clean up,

[pappy19]

Just think what the saw dust is worth on those million dollar walnut trees. 8) 8)

[Roxie]

About 30 years ago, I was renting a house that had a walnut tree in the backyard.  Those enormous black ants damaged the tree to the point that it came down during a thunderstorm.  Nothing was damaged when it fell, and the next morning, I was surprised to see the landlord in the driveway.  I asked him if he wanted me to call a friend who would cut it up for firewood, and he said, "No!  That's WALNUT!  I can sell that tree!"   :D

About a month later, when I went to pay my rent, he told me that if I knew someone who wanted it that I could call them. 

[beenthere]

Those enormous black ants damaged the tree to the point that it came down

Those ants were just living in the decayed wood already in the tree. Makes a great "house" for them to hang out and produce more enormous black ants. 

People do hear such stories about walnut, and in a rare case they are true. Like years back the local newspaper would interview a hog farmer at the packing house and the huge check he received would be discussed. Readers went away with how rich the hog farmers were, based on that huge check. Big checks make news, but the big bills and hard work don't get a mere mention.

[WDH]

One log sets the market .  A log is only worth what someone will pay you for it. 

[isawlogs]

 Danny am I to understand that I should might just hold off on putting seed in the ground, or you still cogetating this...   ???

[Corley5]

I looked at a mostly sugar maple stand last spring that was "over ripe".  The trees should have been cut 20 years ago and even then there would have been few veneer logs.  There were a few big red oak in the mix but they weren't real good quality either.  He wanted everything 14" DBH and up cut and the tops left.  Owner approved high grade.  Easy job.  Twenty acres fairly flat and dry, mostly sugar maple a few red oak, basswood, and white pine in the mix.  All sawlogs and bolts, maybe a couple veneer logs but not enough to call in a buyer.  The owner had some other guys look at it in the past and he was ticked off to say the least at one guy, that I know pretty well, who offered him $6,500.00 for the trees ten years ago.  With today's prices and the tree's decline since then they aren't worth that now.  Another guy that I also know looked more recently and was interested but didn't call him back.  Then I found out why.  He told me he knew there was at least $50,000.00 worth of timber there.  I told him I wasn't interested because I knew he wouldn't be happy with final $$$ amount.  He said he had a couple other guys coming to look.  I was by there yesterday and the trees are still there  ;)  

[mesquite buckeye]

The other side of this is sometimes a landowner has $50,000 worth of stumpage and gets offered $5000 for it. It is a tough deal for all in this. Usually the landowner doesn't have any idea, really what quality of logs he has. Most wouldn't know the difference between a valuable veneer log, a knotty log, or a log with a hidden hollow. Even if they do, many don't understand the economics of timber, especially the cost of extraction, shipping, milling, drying and so on all the way to marketing. Some see the clear red oak for $8/bd ft at home depot and think that is how much they should get for everything, or at least half that.  Unfortunately, everybody along the line from owner, logger, hauler, miller, retailer has to make a living for the whole system to work. Sometimes explaining that low quality logs only produce low priced products can help.

It is too bad that the relationship between loggers and landowners is often adversarial. Stories abound among landowners that after the logger got in their woods, a lot of loads of logs not paid for left through the back gate. Another problem is the onceler loggers who destroy valuable pole trees by dropping the harvested trees on top of them. This one I have seen myself.

And then there are landowners like this one. Has no idea what he has, but it must be worth a fortune 'cause the trees are big (or not so big).

[Roxie]

Those enormous black ants damaged the tree to the point that it came down

Those ants were just living in the decayed wood already in the tree. Makes a great "house" for them to hang out and produce more enormous black ants. 

Carpenter ants are attracted to wet or decayed wood, but when they move in they do fatal damage by excavating and creating galleries and tunnels.

[WDH]

Don't hold off, Marcell.  Get those million $ seedlings in the ground  ;D.

[customsawyer]

That is okay Danny I know where there is a walnut tree and I will let you have it for a little bit less than that guy in North Ga. :D

[ET]

That $75,000 walnut tree I believe came from Williams County in NW Ohio. I remember reading an article in the Toledo Blade back in the late 70's or maybe 80's. i remember it clearly, was on front page toward bottom of page.

[slider]

I think the Walnut Mogul should come up with some gas money for this wild goose chase or at least cook you a steak next time you are down.

[nk14zp]

You got a pipe to run it to AZ we'll talk. ;D 8) 8) 8)

How about a bridge?  Cheap must sell.

[mesquite buckeye]

We need bridges less than water to put under them. ;D

[WDH]

I have been called many things, but never a Walnut Mogul  .

[slider]

Come on Danny ,everyone knows your the biggest sycamore hustler around here.As I see it you just expanded by going to walnut.

[julio]

You have moved up in the world now you are PIMP DADDY smiley_inspector

[WDH]

Have walnut.  Will sell.  Want walnut.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

I have been called many things, but never a Walnut Mogul  .

Danny stands on the street corner, in Macon with Sycamore Slabs and sells them for $300.00 each.

[customsawyer]

 :D :D :D :D

[Al_Smith]

I think a lot of those urban legions must be based on the outragious prices they fetch from those sunken logs they fish out of the great lakes .Fiddle back maple etc .

I had heard of a local veneer yard ,T and J Ellis that supposedly got in excess of 20 grand from a log shipped to Germany .However I'd well imagine that story was launched  in an old fashion practice session of spreading camal dung from days before BS was invented.

[PC-Urban-Sawyer]

And here I always thought Danny was the PECAN PIMP!

Herb