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Ralph E Lindberg
 
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Default Black Walnut Question

In article ,
tdstr wrote:

Greetings!

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Any form of truth to selling a whole black walnut tree or am just
wanting to believe a pipe dream.


Hard telling without seeing the trees. You've has some solid input, and
some, well, moronic

How about some real world?

If you are lucky, and the wood looks good, you will make money, not a
lot, but a little. I broke even, one neighbor did also, a third made a
bit. Of course we all kept some of the lumber. The one that made money
had a use for the saw-dust, so that helped. The neighbor that broke even
had a firm cut all their trees, and take the ones that were salable and
sell them. The neighbor that made a little had a firm come cut their
trees, then had a mini-mill come in and cut them to boards and sold
them. More work, but they made a bit (or claimed they did)

One other thing to consider is that while the lumber people might in
only interested in the long straight stuff. Turners might be interested
in the crotches and stump (figured walnut does sell, and for some
serious money sometimes)

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