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FAQ-Black Walnut Value
Selling Yard Walnut Trees
Question:
We recently bought a home near Lake Phalen and are considering having a very large black walnut tree removed from our yard. I thinking that this beautiful tree must have a considerable value as lumber. Can you recommend any companies that would remove the tree for lumber. I have called several from the phone book and none of them deal with sawmills.
Minnesota Master Gardeners say:
I don't want you to get your hopes too high about the lumber value of your black walnut tree. It may not be profitable to harvest a single tree, and there may be problems with your tree that would make it useless for lumber. Please read the following: http://www.agcom.purdue.edu/AgCom/Pubs/FNR/FNR-93.html .
According to U Forestry folk, black walnut has dropped to the 5th most valuable wood now.
When prices were higher, there were a few loggers who would buy black walnut. They were fairly particular in their requirements and/or were out of the TC metro area. You can get the story straight from the U's Forest Resources program by checking out:
Is Your Black Walnut Worth Big Bucks?
http://www.extension.umn.edu/projects/yardandgarden/YGLNews/YGLN-Sept0102.html#walnut
Here are two websites that may be of further interest to you: http://ohioline.osu.edu/for-fact/0044.html
