Mind blowing. This tree was about twenty miles from me.
I wouldn’t dare even guess at what one slab of that cost.
Bustednuckles
Documenting The Death Of America
Mind blowing. This tree was about twenty miles from me.
I wouldn’t dare even guess at what one slab of that cost.
good looking wood. Not sure what I could do with it but fun to think about
That’s what she said! Sorry, couldn’t resist the opportunity. I have to say that’s a lot of top grade walnut, so someone is going to have a good time making some very nice stuff from it. It’ll cost a fortune to whoever the final customer is..
It would be nonischemic, the shock, the shock…
My mom and dad had two acres with their house and six black walnut trees grafted on English walnut root stock. they were planted 75 years ago by a previous owner and were tall and big. My dad wanted four of them removed as they are one hell of a messy tree. He called a couple of local cabinet shops and asked if they wanted the wood. Five guys came out and my dad had a bidding war going on, he eventually got a thousand a tree and they paid to have them removed by a tree guy into the lengths and cuts they wanted.
That’ll make some heirloom grade furniture for sure!
I was a cabinetmaker. That’s beautiful.
Guys like Doan Trevor could do some fine work with those slabs.
https://doantrevor.com/2024/11/11/american-walnut-stock-for-a-barnard-action-finished-on-veterans-day/
As a cabinet maker, I have to say Walnut is one of the most satisfying woods to work with.
Those slabs will make awesome countertops.
Maybe stop spraying aluminum and other stuff into the sky. Maybe stop arsonist’s from climate activists forcing ecological diseases and beetles into healthy growth. Maybe.
The home I grew up in had one on the edge of our property. The trunk was about 18″ thick and straight up to about 10′ before branching when I was a kid. It’s still there as far as I know. My parents sold the home about fifteen years ago when in their 90’s.
The squirrels always got the nuts before they were even ripe.
WOW!
Quartersawn rootstock, gunstock blanks! Thousands of them!
Tom762
Great-uncle down in southeast OK had a bleeping huge walnut on his property. After a storm did a lot of damage to it he had it cut, taken to a sawmill and kiln dried. I know there were slabs he used 12″ long for the top of the island between kitchen and living room in his house.
He gave me a bunch of remaining small pieces when I was still knifemaking, and I used them for hilts. Some of the hardest and prettiest wood I ever used.
Got one a hundred yards from me coming down soon, trunk looks that big, broken limbs hanging on barn roof