Walnut tree harvest

If it's your next to you neighbor are you downhill from them? Logging will many times cause erosion as they will rip up the soil and there will be nothing to stop water runoff.

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Around here (southern Virginia) cedars are worth quite a bit for sawlog size. A local man last year was buying cedar for $800/thousand, more than any other sawlog tree except cherry and walnut. The problem with most cedars as large as yours are either they have inside rot and a population of resident ants, or they sprouted on a fencerow and have wire inside, though the fence may have been gone for 50 years. Finding a 20" diameter cedar that is not rotten, full of wire, and is clear of limbs for 16 ft or more is rare.

As for the maples they are also worth $$ if they are rot free, clear of limbs or forks, and are straight, for 16' plus. This excludes most any yard tree and many woodland trees. The best maples (and cedars for that matter) are going to be found way back in woods that haven't been touched for many years or in places too difficult to log with equipment.

Log prices aren't based on lumber prices.
People think about walnut lumber and conclude the logs must be worth big bucks.
Logs are cheap, just ask the logger to stop by and give you an estimate of the value. Or find out what mills pay for logs (+/- grade) measure your logs small end and length, look up the scale the mill measures with ,, Doyle or Scribner or International quarter and calculate your log volume and value.
Sit down,, it ain't much.

Med. grade walnut logs, 10' long , 3 side no defect logs, 14"-16" dia are $1.0 per board foot Doyle scale around here.

If/when you want to market some logs, you may come out better to have a portable mill come out to mill the wood. You may be able to market it to a woodworking shop or on the common market. Gotta have it kiln dried though to make it more marketable (and air drying lumber must be done right or you will ruin the wood), and good mill or kiln operator should be able to help you market the lumber but overall it's not easy.

I think one of the best values from your logs is to use it yourself. If you can find a company that can properly process the logs into the products you want.
jim
I manufacture lumber products for a living (since 82), flooring to fine furniture.
I mill/kiln/T&G your logs into flooring for $1.25sf from the log, $1.05sf from your lumber.

In the next town maybe just a wide place there is a walnut log buying yard. No sawmill just buy the logs. They load flat bed trucks but also van trailers with the logs. They are owned by an orential company. Like to say Chinese but not 100% sure. They take them somewhere else to mill them. Rumor is off shore to a ship with a veneer saw. Like I said rumor
Dale

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