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08-16-2009, 04:34 PM | #2 |
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I have nine black walnut trees in my yard. You can make the choice to have it cut down for the money. I look at it as chance to keep my arm in shape by throwing them into the creek. Better than a locust tree.
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As to the OP, I'd rake them up daily to keep the bugs down and prior to mowing. |
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08-16-2009, 04:40 PM | #4 |
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Most saw mills will not buy walnut trees that have grown up within city limits. There is too big a chance that a nail might have been driven into the tree at some point in it's life. I don't know where you live but that's just a FYI.
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08-16-2009, 04:42 PM | #5 |
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I don't know what they bring now, but man that wood and the stump use to be worth some money. May still be, I would check into it.
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08-16-2009, 04:50 PM | #6 |
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Black walnuts? Are they more of a nuisance than white walnuts?
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08-16-2009, 04:50 PM | #7 |
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I was at a missions conference up in MO last winter, and the guy we stayed with was picking up the nuts and selling them. You got kids? A way for them to make some money.
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08-16-2009, 04:59 PM | #8 |
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I'd imagine you could find someone to cut it down and haul it away for free if it is an easy drop and not close to power lines or any other structures. Hell I'd do it if you lived near me. Try Craigslist.
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08-16-2009, 05:02 PM | #9 |
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Walnut trees make the nicest furniture and gun stocks so... there you go.
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08-16-2009, 05:03 PM | #10 |
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08-16-2009, 05:04 PM | #11 |
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Set up a charcoal BBQ underneith it, hose the tree down with lighter fluid as well, and light a match.
Presto!!! A weekend long weenie roast that looks totally accidental
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08-16-2009, 05:08 PM | #12 |
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You can for sure sell the nuts. $150 a ton or something. straight off the tree. My neighbors do it, but they have a few more than one tree. Can't remember the price, either.
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08-16-2009, 06:03 PM | #13 |
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My dads farm is full of walnut trees, and his yard has 3 or 4 in it. He mows with a brush hog, so they don't really bother him I guess. I think he sold some red oak when he bought the place 20 years ago, but he has never sold walnut, though they are valuable. As someone said though, most mills and loggers want nothing to do with a yard tree due to nails. Might find a local artisan that would be interested though.
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08-16-2009, 06:23 PM | #14 |
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I'm in Mission, 53rd and Lamar area.
The tree is, in my estimation, about 35 feet tall, about 20 feet south of my house, with a huge free area just south of the trunk. I've looked up what the ripe (ready to bake) fallen nuts look like, and picked a few hundred of them from my lawn. I'll be giving them to my grandpa. I'm pretty adamant, having read up on the value of the trees, that I'm not going to hire a service. I'll either have somebody come take the tree on their own time, or just deal with it and keep the nuts tidy. It doesn't seem like the guy before me kept the lawn in very good shape, I've found years-old rotten nuts (cue jokes) that have literally deteriorated into the ground.
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08-16-2009, 06:24 PM | #15 |
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If this were a white walnut tree, it'd be nice and tidy and clean up after itself
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