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Middleton Ma

I was a cabinet maker building pipe organs for churches. The dream was then that if you Could have a black walnut farm you could be rich in 80 years . I now think its the next best seed so will the Wallace 2017 black walnut Go heavy . Lol if you grow it I am sure it will .Merry. Christmas ALL

12/23/2017 7:32:49 PM

Weatherman

pap should get good money for the walnut tree they make gun stocks out of walnut here in Ohio.

12/23/2017 8:40:32 PM

Anamosa, IA BPIowegian@aol.com

I sold a few about 20 years ago, hope to be able to sell a few in 10 or 12 years. They were growing when we bought our acreage 32 years ago. The ones I planted will make harvest size in my lifetime, but hopefully someone will get some profit from them.

12/23/2017 10:10:20 PM

Upa Creek, MO

Dr Compost, I have a 1971 Winchester Model 94, 1973 model 9422, and a 1975 model 9422 Mag that my dad hunted everything from squirrel to dear down in the Ozarks and were recently passed on to me. The Walnut stocks are beautiful.

12/23/2017 10:29:23 PM

Anamosa, IA BPIowegian@aol.com

The ones I planted won't make harvest size. But I planted them thick, let nature sort out the runts, pruned them, thinned them out for room to grow, and they are in good soil and protected from wind. Maybe retirement income for our kids.

12/23/2017 11:01:37 PM

Corryton, TN

Starting to lose a few down here to Thousand Cankers Disease. It may go the way of the American Chestnut.

12/24/2017 7:32:19 AM

Weatherman

Other trees are white oak trees they make wine barrels out of the wood.

12/24/2017 10:14:28 AM

Pittsburgh, PA

Ron’s not white oak, white pine I believe.

12/24/2017 11:17:10 AM

Pittsburgh, PA

I’m waiting for tree cutters to come and drop 3 large white oaks from my yard to get more light to the garden. I wish I knew where to sell them. Probably end up as firewood.

12/24/2017 11:18:51 AM

Weatherman

Jay find some Amish they will cut trees for you, I don't think pine would make a good wine barrel. Lol

12/24/2017 12:22:22 PM

Weatherman

Jay I don't know how big your trees are, my neighbor had the Amish cut 2 oak trees down they took the logs (left the brush) and paid him $500 for the wood.

12/24/2017 12:35:14 PM

Lexington, Ky

I have a good friend in the logging business, just a few hours ago we were discussing cutting some walnuts on a neighbors property. He wouldn't touch them 5 years ago, today, he's begging me to help him get the job. What's driving the price up? According to my friend, one unassuming walnut tree, he values at $1,400?!

12/24/2017 9:27:07 PM

Bloomfield, Iowa

Japan is buying a lot of Walnut.

12/24/2017 9:32:25 PM

Pittsburgh, PA

Dr Compost - hmmm that would be awesome. I’m gonna have to do some research. Thanks

12/24/2017 9:38:12 PM

Anamosa, IA BPIowegian@aol.com

Japan and Germany are 2 countries that are big on buying walnut. We had state foresters working in our USDA building and they helped me get bids on selling my walnuts. And they managed some state lands. They once told me that the buyers tried to purchase one nice walnut from the state for $10,000. They have technology that allows them to cut veneer much thinner than American sawmills, so they could pay more for the best trees. The trees that the gun stock buyers wanted were crooked trees growing on poor soils. They grew slower and had more interesting grain.

Anamosa used to have a barrel stave factory, but it closed about 30 years ago. We have lots of real good oaks in our area. If you ever saw some of the rounded trees in paintings by Anamosa artist Grant Wood, they were typical of the old white and burr oak trees that grow around here.

12/24/2017 10:13:48 PM

Netherlands

Don, in the Zion Lutheran Church in Moselem Springs there is a pipe organ made entirely of black walnut, both the case as the wooden pipes. It was built in 1770 by David Tannenberg and is now the oldest surviving American built pipe organ in the world. It is also the only one built of black walnut. Later on some fool painted the entire organ white and only recently it has been restored back to how it used to be with all the black walnut showing.

12/25/2017 8:10:46 AM

Now I know why someone here planted acres of black walnut trees.

12/25/2017 8:14:41 AM

Weatherman

Jay white oak has a rounded end of the leaf, red oak has a sharp end on the leaf, Pin oak smaller sharp end of it's leaf.

12/25/2017 2:09:35 PM

Pittsburgh, PA

Mine are white oaks.

12/25/2017 7:10:08 PM

Eganville, Ontario

Quarter cut White oak is one of my favourites. It’s hard to beat the look you get from the rays jumping out of the wood when you apply the perfect tone of stain and cover with a clear coat. Quarter cut white oak was the backbone of the arts and crafts furniture movement that really started when William Morris of New York saw what Gustav Stickley was doing in California in the early 1900’s. They influenced a lot of American furniture and the Mission style is still popular today.

Their designs have stood the test of time and in the beginning were exclusively built from quarter cut white oak.

I always wanted to track down a Morris Chair.

12/25/2017 8:49:24 PM