I have quite a few good size Black Walnut tree on the property I moved
to recently. I'm an avid gardener, and these trees & their plant killing
toxins ( and messy nuts & branches) just don't fit into my current &
future landscape plan. Someone on the rec.garden newsgroup suggested I
look for a local woodworker or carver who might be interested in
removing the trees to use the wood.
The 2 biggest trees are probably about 2' diameter at the base, and
taller than my 2 story with attic house. 2 more are about 18" @ base.

Any suggestions where to look for such a person, other than usenet?
I'm located in Howard Co, MD

David

newsreader wrote in
:

I have quite a few good size Black Walnut tree on the property I moved
to recently. I'm an avid gardener, and these trees & their plant killing
toxins ( and messy nuts & branches) just don't fit into my current &
future landscape plan. Someone on the rec.garden newsgroup suggested I
look for a local woodworker or carver who might be interested in
removing the trees to use the wood.
The 2 biggest trees are probably about 2' diameter at the base, and
taller than my 2 story with attic house. 2 more are about 18" @ base.

Any suggestions where to look for such a person, other than usenet?
I'm located in Howard Co, MD

David


You might also post this in rec.crafts.woodturning. Turners are notorious
for scrounging free, 'problem' wood. And they do things with tree parts
that flat woodworkers can't easily use.

Patriarch,
on the west coast...

Patriarch wrote:
newsreader wrote in
:

I have quite a few good size Black Walnut tree on the property I moved
to recently. I'm an avid gardener, and these trees & their plant killing
toxins ( and messy nuts & branches) just don't fit into my current &
future landscape plan. Someone on the rec.garden newsgroup suggested I
look for a local woodworker or carver who might be interested in
removing the trees to use the wood.
The 2 biggest trees are probably about 2' diameter at the base, and
taller than my 2 story with attic house. 2 more are about 18" @ base.

Any suggestions where to look for such a person, other than usenet?
I'm located in Howard Co, MD

David


You might also post this in rec.crafts.woodturning. Turners are notorious
for scrounging free, 'problem' wood. And they do things with tree parts
that flat woodworkers can't easily use.

Patriarch,
on the west coast...

Thanks for the tip, crossposted there as well

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:54:13 -0400, newsreader
wrote:

I have quite a few good size Black Walnut tree on the property I moved
to recently. I'm an avid gardener, and these trees & their plant killing
toxins ( and messy nuts & branches) just don't fit into my current &
future landscape plan. Someone on the rec.garden newsgroup suggested I
look for a local woodworker or carver who might be interested in
removing the trees to use the wood.
The 2 biggest trees are probably about 2' diameter at the base, and
taller than my 2 story with attic house. 2 more are about 18" @ base.

Any suggestions where to look for such a person, other than usenet?
I'm located in Howard Co, MD

David

DAGS for portable saw mills. Call the dealers to find out who has
them in your area. Contact them to see if they would be willing to
take the trees. There is an individual in my area that does that.

Frank

In article ,
newsreader wrote:

I have quite a few good size Black Walnut tree on the property I moved
to recently. I'm an avid gardener, and these trees & their plant killing
toxins ( and messy nuts & branches) just don't fit into my current &
future landscape plan. Someone on the rec.garden newsgroup suggested I
look for a local woodworker or carver who might be interested in
removing the trees to use the wood.
The 2 biggest trees are probably about 2' diameter at the base, and
taller than my 2 story with attic house. 2 more are about 18" @ base.

Any suggestions where to look for such a person, other than usenet?
I'm located in Howard Co, MD

David

David,
I'm right next to you in Catonsville. A gent at work and I may be
interested. Are they fairly simple to drop or do you valuable stuff in
the way?

Allen

Send me an e-mail- Can these trees be dropped? or will climbing be involved?
"newsreader" wrote in message
...
I have quite a few good size Black Walnut tree on the property I moved to
recently. I'm an avid gardener, and these trees & their plant killing
toxins ( and messy nuts & branches) just don't fit into my current & future
landscape plan. Someone on the rec.garden newsgroup suggested I look for a
local woodworker or carver who might be interested in removing the trees to
use the wood.
The 2 biggest trees are probably about 2' diameter at the base, and taller
than my 2 story with attic house. 2 more are about 18" @ base.

Any suggestions where to look for such a person, other than usenet?
I'm located in Howard Co, MD

David

newsreader wrote:
I have quite a few good size Black Walnut tree on the property I moved
to recently. I'm an avid gardener, and these trees & their plant killing
toxins ( and messy nuts & branches) just don't fit into my current &
future landscape plan. Someone on the rec.garden newsgroup suggested I
look for a local woodworker or carver who might be interested in
removing the trees to use the wood.
The 2 biggest trees are probably about 2' diameter at the base, and
taller than my 2 story with attic house. 2 more are about 18" @ base.

Any suggestions where to look for such a person, other than usenet?
I'm located in Howard Co, MD

David


An Arborist who came by to see the trees convinced me that I would be
foolish to remove these old healthy trees. He pointed out there are
quite a lot of ornamentals that could be planted under them.

He suggested I hire a few day laborers during the annual heavy nut
dropping season, pay them a couple hundred dollars, then take all the
money I saved by not paying for tree removal, and use the savings for a
trip to Hawaii.

He also pointed out that 2 of the larger trees have some substantial
hollows in the trunk, making them not very valuable for cutting boards,
in his opinion.

I reckon I will keep them for a while.

David

newsreader wrote:



An Arborist ...

also pointed out that 2 of the larger trees have some substantial
hollows in the trunk, making them not very valuable for cutting boards,
in his opinion.



He's probably right. Although black walnuts can have large limbs
the wood from limbs tends to be unstable and unsuitable for
boards. Turners may still be interested so keep that in mind
when the trees eventually do come down.

And black walnuts are VERY tasty.

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FF