Re: OT Walnut logs

Posted by Rod in Smiths Falls, ON, on January 19, 2005 at 16:04:43 from (209.71.222.90):

In Reply to: Re: OT Walnut logs posted by paul on January 19, 2005 at 08:34:31:

Where are you that black walnuts are fragile?

In Eastern Ontario there aren't very many of them, but they are hardy. When the ice storm hit a few years ago and decimated the tree tops in my woodlot, I only lost one, 6" walnut. The other trees took a terrible beating, but the walnuts adapted to the shorn limbs with new growth and kept right on making nuts for the squirrels to plant. They grow quite rapidly, at about the same rate as a soft maple. Of course they kill everything around them with the tanin, which helps them compete against the hard maples.

When I began my teaching career I measured one specimen at 13". This year at the same point, after 34 years, it measured 35" at the butt.

One big old tree had a third of its trunk split away about twenty years ago. After the limb lay on the field for a couple of years I decided to cut it up for lumber. Nothing had rotted and I got a trailer-load of logs out of the limb. The tree is still in the same condition many years later, only bigger. It's over 48" at the butt, but it would be no veneer log with a big chunk missing out of it.

Maybe it's too cold up here for whatever pest kills them in warmer climates.

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