Big black walnut

[Sgfinco]

Removed a previously storm damaged limb, did some tip weight reduction over structures and dead wood. Next year she'll get some cambistat and an inspection.

 

[Rooted.Tree.Solutions]

Nice!

 

[Jonny]

Man I'd love to have a beauty like that in my yard.
Well done!

 

[Sgfinco]

Man I'd love to have a beauty like that in my yard.
Well done!

Wish it was in mine!! It's an awesome tree!

 

[Woodwork]

I know this is an old thread, but didn't want to start a new one to ask this:

How are black walnuts to climb? Got one about 40' tall, maybe 26" DBH in yard that I want to start messing with (new to me) SRT method and gadgetry...but I have never climbed one. Are they brittle? Would like to eventually walk out on some limbs on it (they need to be trimmed back).

Thanks--

 

[evo]

I know this is an old thread, but didn't want to start a new one to ask this:

How are black walnuts to climb? Got one about 40' tall, maybe 26" DBH in yard that I want to start messing with (new to me) SRT method and gadgetry...but I have never climbed one. Are they brittle? Would like to eventually walk out on some limbs on it (they need to be trimmed back).

Thanks--

They are fun as shit. I wouldn’t say brittle, but the small stuff isn’t super strong. Certainly softer than an oak, or madrona. But fragile or brittle isn’t a word I’d use. Somewhere in the middle?!

 

[rico]

Beautiful work Sgfinco!! I don't think I have ever seen a nicer Walnut tree.

 

[Sgfinco]

I know this is an old thread, but didn't want to start a new one to ask this:

How are black walnuts to climb? Got one about 40' tall, maybe 26" DBH in yard that I want to start messing with (new to me) SRT method and gadgetry...but I have never climbed one. Are they brittle? Would like to eventually walk out on some limbs on it (they need to be trimmed back).

Thanks--

Like @evo said they're decent, pretty flexible, tend to be a little leggy, and small diameter wood isn't super strong.
Usually their growth habit lends themselves quite well to srt trickery.

Thanks @rico means a lot coming from you! Once in a while us midwwesterners get a fun tree to play around in!

 

[rico]

I have a really shitty internet hookup so its tough for me to see what device your climbing on?

 

[Sgfinco]

I have a really shitty internet hookup so its tough for me to see what device your climbing on?

It's also shitty video quality, this was on my BDB

 

[southsoundtree]

Beauty!!

I was thinking about seeing ARBORIST on your shirt.

Seems like a good ideas to put on a company shirt for customers to keep re-reading while bidding a job, and lay-people to read all over...

ARBORIST: is a professional in the practice of arboriculture, which is the cultivation, management, and study of individual trees, shrubs, vines, and other perennial woody plants in dendrology and horticulture.

 

[dsptech]

Every dam Walnut tree I've either pruned or removed in the past 4 yrs were loaded with Carpenter ants.
Most of them hollowed out to a degree or turned to mush in the main stem or large limbs.
Must be a North East issue.

 

[Reach]

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[Woodwork]

Every dam Walnut tree I've either pruned or removed in the past 4 yrs were loaded with Carpenter ants.
Most of them hollowed do a degree or turned to mush in the main stem or large limbs.
Must be a North East issue.

Hmmm...I just noticed some kind of large ants coming out of a hole in an otherwise healthy-appearing BW in the yard here. Any way to get rid of them? I like this tree and would like to conserve its wood for myself or someone who comes after me...it has a huge almost codominant crotch where I removed a giant limb about 20 yrs ago to prevent a storm from destroying the whole tree, and the wood where that crotch came in is bound to have some nice figure in it...