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Friend of mine has 110 acres he lives on but does little with the property. It is about 80% forested. I turkey hunt on it. As I have come to know it over the last few years, I have found about 7 what I consider to be large walnut trees. 4' to 5' in diameter 1' off the ground. Several of them have many significant large branches (trunks?) splitting off from the base within the first 4'. And they all have very large limbs higher up.

He's said if I want to do the work I can have one....they are all in the forest and no one but he and I would ever know one got taken down. Does anyone know what specific attributes should I look for when trying to decide which tree??

There is some heavy equipment available as well as trails through the forest so getting the logs out is very doable. I just want to select the best one.


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It depends on what you want to do with it. For lumber, straightness factors in hugely and fewer limbs are more desirable. Also, large limbs are often very unstable wood, so limb wood per se is not all that desirable.


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SamW asked me to post some photos of his homegrown walnut. Pretty nice stuff and very nice work, but we gotta help SamW with his Paul Bunyan outfit... smile










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If you're looking for figure, try to plan to get the stump out of the ground. The stuff that might be of most interest will look more like the chunk in Sam's picture than lumber. If you are starting to narrow choices down, see if you can figure out which ones were subject to the toughest and slowest growing conditions. It may not end up being on an easy trail. If you're doing it for fun, saw for maximum quality, not yield. Maybe, offer the odds and ends to woodworkers, like bowl turners, and don't worry about it if a bunch ends up as fire wood. Good luck with it.

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Thanks Craig.....it's for fun and interest.


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It has been so muddy here this spring I even got my chainsaw stuck! Sam, what gauge are those ukes? ;}

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soprano gauge. The stump photo was in 1989 in AR. The wood cured over 20 years in UT. AR is not the best local for stock wood walnut...very porous wood.


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The oldest black walnut trees in my part of the world are in old yards, where a house used to be, and may be chock full of nails and other things saw blades don't like. It seems to have been almost a given that a tenant house, or sharecropper's house, would have a walnut tree on the yard. They have the characteristic of emitting some odor or substance that drives fleas away. Maybe that is part of the reason for their popularity in yards of old. I have been told you could throw some walnut limbs, with green leaves, in a dog pen that is infested with fleas, and they would be gone overnight.

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It matter knot whoz yard it grows in...

What matters for gunstock wood is it needs to be grown in a slow tree growth climate like Missouri or Californicatia.

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Originally Posted By: Stan
The oldest black walnut trees in my part of the world are in old yards, where a house used to be, and may be chock full of nails and other things saw blades don't like. It seems to have been almost a given that a tenant house, or sharecropper's house, would have a walnut tree on the yard. They have the characteristic of emitting some odor or substance that drives fleas away. Maybe that is part of the reason for their popularity in yards of old. I have been told you could throw some walnut limbs, with green leaves, in a dog pen that is infested with fleas, and they would be gone overnight.
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Stan, when I was off to college, I came home one weekend to find wax myrtle limbs with leaves all over the house. Daddy's chihuahua had caught a dose of fleas and Mama had heard wax myrtle would drive them off. Quite a surprise!...Geo

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