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Hi Julius
Yes, walnut is saleable and the root can be especially valuable for furniture making (not that I'm saying yours is).
http://www.walnuttrees.co.uk/sell-walnut-trees/
http://www.titchmarsh-goodwin.co.uk/
It would possibly be worth having words with local joiners and wood turners if you know of any as they don't need such large pieces for there projects. I have seen some very nice jewlery boxes and the like made from Walnut and Yew by a local chap.
In the past i have given him some wood and in return gained a few very nice presents to pass on in the way of boxes that were made by him.
You may also find gunsmiths are interested in it if they make there own stocks.
Value wise i would say, see what you are offered and whether they are collecting from where it lays, the road side or you are delivering it. At the end of the day just so long as you are gettin more than there value as logs you are quids in.
Peter Woolnough said:
walnut costs a small fortune if its prime,contact the local saw mill see if they fancy buying the log,dont cut it into 1mt lengths or anything daft.
the rot may not be too bad, either side of the heart may well be very usable
Walnut is commonly used for making gun butts and veineers so im sure it would be worth something to the right person. You should put a post on the Arbtalk website, they have a section devoted especially to milling.
There's a French chap, Daniel Salvucci, in Beaumont du Périgord about 30 mins drive from me. He has his lathe positioned right in the doorway/window of his workshop, next to his gallery.
He turns wood of all sorts and the roots are especially attractive. "Il utilise des essences régionales comme le noyer" (He uses regional species such as walnut).
Look at what he does with the wood, it's brilliant.
http://bois.de.montpion.pagesperso-orange.fr/pages/page_5pag.html
http://bois.de.montpion.pagesperso-orange.fr/pages/page_4pag.html
I had three walnuts taken out when I moved in to the current house (lifting the pavement and causing all sorts of problems with leaves and the walnuts, so the council wanted them out as much as we did, wrong trees, wrong place!)
My tree surgeon tried everything to sell the wood but no-one would collect it. The roots were the bit they want for the veneers, but pulling them out would have riped up the road and every service. They got six ten-foot lengths of good, straight trunk, but it ended up going for logs. Very sad, but transport is a huge cost even for relatively local companies, and you can only spend so much time calling people to offer them free wood!
Asked around for any interest in the wood but was told it was not good enough quality - too much sap wood and
there was too much rot in the root plate to make it worth keeping.
So I got a local tree surgeon to remove trunk, take out root plate and chip the brash for £300 .
Thanks to all for input.
apparantly, it's the root stock at the base of the trunk (The Burr?) from which they make gun stocks and posh car dashboards. It has to be in great condition and solid. It's also has to come out in one piece which can be very expensive.
I think that is why it is never as valuable as it should be/you would expect.
I also seem to remember being told that they used to beat the base of a walnut tree over many years (not constantly I guess) to increase the gnarled look of the burr.
That's enough useless info for one day......