I am not a woodsman and have NOT seen many walnut trees. This is more than 4 ft at the base and the main section of the trunk weighed 23,000 lbs. The near perfect trunk did not have rot in it or any big bad areas. The limbs are bigger than the trees I've seen. Wow!

 

 

 

Wonder what it sold for?

1 minute ago, Ron Altier said:

Wonder what it sold for?

More than I have available to me currently.

 

Hope it didn't go to a casket company!

Jim

I have heard of walnuts in this area going for 40,000 and the buyer sent a crew in to harvest it . I am thinking 100,000 plus for that. I do not know what price differential is from black walnut to claro walnut

Thanks Gerald, I had no idea, but I figured it would fetch a good amount. There aren't many big Walnut trees like this one.

14 hours ago, Gerald said:

 I do not know what price differential is from black walnut to claro walnut

Lots!!! Hearn Hardwoods has a slab 3.25" X 66" X 80" for $3,575!!!!. Plus shipping.

Wanna go halvsies, Gunny?

Exceptional tree

10 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

Lots!!! Hearn Hardwoods has a slab 3.25" X 66" X 80" for $3,575!!!!. Plus shipping.

Wanna go halvsies, Gunny?

Sure, we can put it on the TPW credit card, @John Morris left it with the plane.  

23 minutes ago, Woodbutcherbynight said:

Sure, we can put it on the TPW credit card, @John Morris left it with the plane.  

I figgered you’d tell him if he took care of the first two numbers (35), you’d handle the last two numbers (75)  

The description of the nut sounds very much like what we called black walnut.  I have a tree slabbed into lumber in the garage.  I hope it is still there.  It's only been 15 years.  The leaflet pattern is a bit different from a black walnut.  There is another walnut tree in California called an English walnut.  I wonder what it looks like.  That is beautiful wood.  

When I was a kid, 8 to 10 years old, my father had an old barn without an upstairs floor. He somehow got hold of a lot of black walnut and made a loose drying floor out of the walnut. We forgot all about it. Many years later (50+) I went back to the old home place, hoping I may get a chance to buy some of that floor. Nothing was left, no house, no barn, NOTHING. Nothing material, just memories

On 1/31/2020 at 6:36 PM, Gerald said:

I have heard of walnuts in this area going for 40,000 and the buyer sent a crew in to harvest it . I am thinking 100,000 plus for that. I do not know what price differential is from black walnut to claro walnut

Black walnut or horse walnuts are inedible. Regular walnut produces a nut that is edible.

We southerners didn't know that you can't eat black walnuts.  We use them in cakes and ice cream.  While I was a youngster, each fall we picked up black walnuts, allowed them to dry , remove the hull so they would dry some more and by Thanksgiving, we would crack them open with a hatchet or hammer, eat them right out of the shell.  Then some were picked out for a cake.  Goooood cake.  

 

My grandparents who raised me had a table made of black walnut.  It was huge as they raised 9 children around that table.  In about 1954, they sold that table for a metal one so they could be more modern.  It's sad to see all that good walnut lumber in that garage go away.  I hope someone salvaged it.  

Edited February 4, 20206 yr by FlGatorwood

Yep, my F-I-L made fudge every Christmas with black walnuts in it. Was never a favorite of mine, but quite popular with most other family members.

Oh, man! My wife's cookies, cakes and fudge with black walnuts are to die for. English walnuts can't hold a candle to blacks for flavor.