View Single Post
  #4   Report Post  
Old 06-07-2006, 01:48 AM posted to alt.home.lawn.garden
Chas Hurst
 
Posts: n/a
Default Walnut tree for sale


"Srgnt Billko" wrote in message
...

"Chas Hurst" wrote in message
. ..

"Srgnt Billko" wrote in message
...
About 25' high. Buyer has to dig it out and move it. What do you think
I
ought to get for it ? (upstate NY) My neighbor thinks at least $100.


Dig it out? It's only use would be lumber and at only 25' high there
won't be much usable wood. Good for firewood.


You have to be nuts to burn a Walnut tree. Full grown Walnut trees are
going for over $1500 here for lumber.
Dig it out - you might be picturing digging by hand. That's not the way
trees are moved. There is a hydraulic clamshell type device that mounts
on the back of a tractor for digging trees out.


I'm quite aware of the machinery to move live trees. You are unaware of the
value of a small walnut tree. Walnuts are ubiquitous and of value only when
VERY mature. I've burnt walnut larger than your tree.