Black Walnut logs- they think they have gold bars? or am I wrong?

[Larry]

They look a lot better on my sawmill!  Ate this one for breakfast.





I scaled it 11' long and 23" but it measured 34" across the butt and 40" at the crotch.  Logger payed $200 for the tree but he had to work to get it.

More coming in tomorrow from way up in Missouri!

[TKehl]

The word that sticks out in my mind that the realtor said is "some".  A realtor's job is similar to a newscasters job, speak the truth in the most compelling way possible. (It's not small, it's "cozy" ;))  There may be one or two trees that do hit that high dollar mark on the property, then that would be "some".  The rest are probably much more like you expect. ;)

We've not personally harvested walnut off of our land, but we've got quite a bit. As such I pay attention to logging reports and such. It's pretty common when a logger breaks things down that there are a few trees on a given property that make the bulk of the money in Walnut. The saw logs are still good money, but not like the few that make veneer.

Or she could have just asked her tree trimmer buddy, who obviously knows this stuff. :D

[Walnut Beast]

Do you know Turner logging. A Father and Son Workin boys in Southern MO. They buy and log a lot of walnut. He's always posting on 
Utube. Talked to him a couple times. Pretty nice guy.  A couple points he talked about. He had to cut a bunch of really nice big walnut trees and one tree in particular cost him several thousand dollars because he had to cut the job earlier when it was warmer. And he's said and shown on his videos if theses trees could have been harvested several years earlier because some big old Walnuts start there down hill slide and it really affects the quality. Even though by looking at the bark on ways it grew or traveled etc. when it's opened up could be a different story. Ive got several very large walnuts that need to be harvested. There just so old and big and been on the decline. Don't really want to harvest them but it's probably there time. I'm not to concerned on quality because most are going to be slabbed and the more defects the better

[nativewolf]

 

 

you want your walnut to come from stands like this, so they look like this

 

[WV Sawmiller]

   I need a bib. :D

[Walnut Beast]

 

you want your walnut to come from stands like this, so they look like this

😂 That's pretty much what looks like and dominates my creek bottom