Walnut Stumps

[Jim McDonald]

My cousin lives in an idyllic country setting, but the county is about to begin widening the road, meaning he will lose two large pin oaks and nine medium to large black walnut trees that are in the right of way.

I have already advised him to contact a timber company to buy/remove the trees ($$$), but the question becomes, is there someone out there that buys stumps/roots because we know the county is just going to take a bulldozer and push them out of the ground. And how do they handle getting them out of rural eastern Ohio?

I told him to save me some larger branch pieces and smaller trunk slices when the timber company came.

Figured someone on this board would have an answer/contact.

[sawdustus]

I don't know what walnut costs in your neck of the woods, but here in NJ it is about $7.50/ bd ft so don't let them just grind it up for wood chips. Check in the yellow pages for portable sawmills. There are usually some who will bring their mill to you and for a price, often just a share of the resulting timber, will mill up trunks and large branches for you. As for the stumps, burl wood is very expensive but you have to be careful of the dirt embedded in the wood. Hope this helps. By the way, walnut contains a compound that prevents most other plants from growing near it so don't use the sawdust in your garden or the chips for mulch.

george

[Forester21]

I used to work for the state of MI as a forester. I know when utility companies widened their right-of-ways through state land, the company was charged a fee of 3X the value of the timber. Your cousin might want to talk to an independant forester in the area to see what happens in his state.
T

[azbison]

There is a company here called the tree recyclers who come in and take your tree and turn it into lumber.... you might see if he has the same sort of business around.