Walnut logs

treebilly said:
The dark stain in the fifth and sixth picture down are tell tail signs of hard ware, from my opinion. Could be wrong though. It’s been known to happen.
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The 5 picture is of a limb that was over 30 ft off the ground the damage is from the grapple I layed the longs in the back of the truck then Pushed them in. I agree though it looks like metal but that from my experience is usually bluish black that is black from the grapple. It is hard to tell from the picture but I promise it isn't hardware. I might snap a few more pictures to show you better.

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Tom Dunlap said:
Stay with me, it is germaine!

I follow a woodworking forum. Woodcentral.com

There a guy in NJ who had tonhave a couple of walnuts removed. He was asking how he might tell them without damaging the wood. He asked about 'felling fractures' I knew exactly what he meant but others thought he made it up because they'd fallen timber in the woods not residential trees. After the felling he showed some of the primary branch unions that smashed when the tree hit the ground. What caught my eye in his pics...and the butts of these sawlogs in this thread, is the cracks through the pith

Could be many things.

Quick drying and end cracks/checks. But that is usually starting at
The bark

Releasing internal growth stresses from tension/compression

Maybe the slam When the tree hit The ground

I can't recall seeing cracks like that when chunking down
Trunks

Any other ideas?
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Red alder will do this. Spar will pop and crack along the neutral plane, frequently a 5-10 second delay after the cut. A short log pile will pop for hours after being cut. Spring and summer are the most notable times
 
You could do this and use the wood yourself! I replaced my front porch with this cedar tree. I have a 38” butternut tree slabbed into 10” live edge by 8 feet long air drying under metal roofing. I should be able to fetch 1000 bucks a piece for em when they are cured.
 
Walnut here in SE PA is fetching about $.50 a board foot in log form. I found a couple wood workers that snap it up for a little bit more but they only want the crem dela crem. A good sawyer can do a lot with a sub par log. It’s really amazing to watch them think, turn, think and saw.
The only exceptions to the low price are figured grain or size. A buddy of mine found an extremely large walnut and turned a huge profit on it due to its figure and size. Everyone has a buddy like this guy, he can fall into a $hit pile and come out looking like a rose.
 
flyingsquirrel25 said:
Walnut here in SE PA is fetching about $.50 a board foot in log form. I found a couple wood workers that snap it up for a little bit more but they only want the crem dela crem. A good sawyer can do a lot with a sub par log. It’s really amazing to watch them think, turn, think and saw.
The only exceptions to the low price are figured grain or size. A buddy of mine found an extremely large walnut and turned a huge profit on it due to its figure and size. Everyone has a buddy like this guy, he can fall into a $hit pile and come out looking like a rose.
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Those guys suck! I’d come out of it with some new strange bacterial infection
 
ATH said:
Wow. Last I saw around here, it was better than a dollar a foot on the stump. Veneer logs (which, of course, every one is) were north of $10/BdFt over the winter.
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I’m sure if I could move large veneer I might do a bit better. Veneer around here needs to be 8’ long, but the pay better for 9s. And must have 18” of heart wood, and clean of any defects. The last walnut I moved was 24” total and 8’ long. The 1050 did not want to pick it up and we dragged it to the trailer.
The other thing is we seldom deal with large walnuts because people either love them and do everything they can to keep them around or they hate them and cut them around mid size. :confused:
Another huge factor is we don’t really have the milling industry around. There is one buyer south of us but he wants truck loads not ones and twos. We do have a specialty hardwood mill, but he spends so much time buying stuff from South America that he doesn’t have time to work with local materials. We gave away a 5’ Diameter sycamore this past winter just to get rid of it.
 
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Stephen Moore said:
Is that extremely valuable Black Walnut?
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LOL...it is getting close. I saw over $13/BdFt a few years ago. People don't seem to understand that those logs are worth so much because they are RARE.
flyingsquirrel25 said:
I’m sure if I could move large veneer I might do a bit better. Veneer around here needs to be 8’ long, but the pay better for 9s. And must have 18” of heart wood, and clean of any defects. The last walnut I moved was 24” total and 8’ long. The 1050 did not want to pick it up and we dragged it to the trailer.
The other thing is we seldom deal with large walnuts because people either love them and do everything they can to keep them around or they hate them and cut them around mid size. :confused:
Another huge factor is we don’t really have the milling industry around. There is one buyer south of us but he wants truck loads not ones and twos. We do have a specialty hardwood mill, but he spends so much time buying stuff from South America that he doesn’t have time to work with local materials. We gave away a 5’ Diameter sycamore this past winter just to get rid of it.
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Yeah...almost all the mills want an even length plus 6-8" to trim off of the end. So if you bring them a log that is 12'4" they will scale it (and pay) as a 10' log.
 
If the wood is worth moving, I take it up to my friends mill. He has a woodmizer, a headsaw rig, a planer mill and a kiln.
 

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ATH said:
LOL...it is getting close. I saw over $13/BdFt a few years ago. People don't seem to understand that those logs are worth so much because they are RARE.

Yeah...almost all the mills want an even length plus 6-8" to trim off of the end. So if you bring them a log that is 12'4" they will scale it (and pay) as a 10' log.
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They are rare here! But not so much on the Eastern USA
 
Here's the rest of my load of Highly valuable Walnut
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