walnut tree is about to be felled! What to do with it?

[Sutton]

Just out of interest (as I know it's in your garden), valuable walnut butts are often excavated out of the ground after having their crowns removed as there is a surprising amount of millable timber below the ground level.

 

As others have suggested, the tree should pay for it's own removal...

 

Though that's the forester in me talking...

[Foord]

Have you had anybody out to look at it?

 

A few of the local firms have got mills - or at least access to them.

 

Theres a bloke call Andrew Hewitt out towards Hereford that runs a mobile mill.

 

Even I've got an alaskan mill, there no shortage of local options!

[Rob D]

'Valuable' walnut butts are rare - at a rough guess having seen a few maybe 1 in 100.

 

 

The rest then come on a scale between firewood ------ valuable.

 

 

Also they are not valuable unless you know how to cut them and where to sell the timber....

 

 

The odds are the timber to a miller may be worth around £150-00.

 

 

To take the tree down approx £400-£500.

 

 

(above is an educated guess).

[muttley9050]

 

A repost I know, but it creases me up just thinking about it!

[woodyguy]

You can't watch it too often. Great excuse to repost.

[difflock]

leave the tree and remove the 1960's/1970's house.

jat

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[swinny]

 

A repost I know, but it creases me up just thinking about it!

 

Brilliant

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

 

A repost I know, but it creases me up just thinking about it!

 

Brilliant! Not silver or QE, but made me larf like a Lord!!

[Jesse]

leave the tree and remove the 1960's/1970's house.

jat

m

 

Thats what I was THINKING But was tooo scared to say.

[Jesse]

Lets be bold now, if its a Subsidence issue, and you would consider retention I could provide a SRA on this site, I would require a little bit more information, age of house, foundation depth, soil type, distance of tree from house, I would caveat the risk evaluation in full , but at least you would have an idea of RISK to property, as for thinking its of value in timber, its low, fire wood. Assumptions would be based on worst case scenario. Steve would have to be happy. No advice could be given on the trees condition. Assessments would be based on NHBC Chap 4.2 , or you could if you really wanted spend a few hundred pounds and have a viable SRA carried out , I'd hate to think you just moved in and on a whim wondered how much the tree was worth in wood.