..as in horse chestnut ?

Is there a 'mini' version of these chestnuts?

The shelled two-piece meats on my driveway are about the size of a macadamia nut ?

Bill K

^^^ Not sure. As a kid at home, we had a Beech Chestnut tree and the nuts looked exactly like the ones in the pic.
I remember that we tried to crack them open to eat them....impossible.

And..a lot of them!
The apple is still in one piece. Couldn't split it. My grip kept slipping off. I give up. :)

A guy who does furniture for firearms will be interested in that tree.

To harvest the nuts they lay out tarps and shake the tree, would make it easier to collect them. Maybe you could find a food bank that would be interested in the nuts

The tree is 9ft around....too big to shake.

It's really hard for me to think of having the tree removed. It's at least 70 years old and it's next to the road and would be a big open spot if removed.
Before the nuts and leafs start dropping...it's a beautiful tree.

I was 'gifted' at tree of similar size.

Finding a saw mill to process it was not worth the effort.

The people who are saying it's super-valuable probably haven't done it. Maybe with live edge wood being popular now it could work out, but I would not touch it even for free. It's cheaper and easier to buy walnut from a distributor.

^^^ That's about what I have found out.

Is it worth it to tend the dropped nuts every week before mowing?? I don't know.
I don't mind the exercise...but it's time consuming and must be done.

WOW .... I don't have walnuts after all :D! That nut in question... my uncle gave me a buckeye several years ago.... looks like them to me.... but I dunno.

Horse Chestnuts and buckeyes are poisonous, There are a lot of varieties of chestnut including Chinese, American, and Allegheny chinkapin, The American Chestnut went almost extinct in most places. The Allegheny chinkapin (several spellings) is the small one (tree and nuts) and are common in the southeast (while only a few American Chestnut trees of size still exist).

If you wait for them to start to turn black, then the hulls come off easily...although you should probably wear gloves as they stain your skin (we didn't have gloves where I grew up and my hands were black as tar in the fall. I used to spread them on the gravel driveway (once they stared turning soft) and let the cars slowly run over them to remove the hulls) Also kills the weeds in the driveway as they are herbicides.

Sorry...I was referring to this thread about the apple...http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/1104276-im-going-grocery-store.html

I know what you are saying...my hands are black!

If I didn't live a million miles away, I would come haul all of those away for you. That is a lot. I would be cracking those by the fireplace all winter. People used to steal mine from under the tree...they were so valued where I grew up. Never had/seen that many from a single tree.

^^^ I'm up to 15 wheelbarrows full so far. Each wheelbarrow holds 6 cu feet.
I think I'm over half-way through the drop...but I could be wrong.

As they get buried in my pile by others...they rot.
So...I have a 5 foot pile of rotting walnuts covered by two feet of this years walnuts.

Almost all from one tree.

You are more than welcome to take any or all the walnuts that you like. I'll help load them up!

We have a black walnut tree in our front yard that spans out over most of our house roof and entry. Bumper crop this year, filled with worms and ants like last year I assume. Squirrel eats them and leaves the remains at the top if the stairs. I have to sweep them away just to get up the stairs and into the house.

They fall all night on the roof, got used to it and sleep through it.

^^^ A lot of mine fall on the road. I hear them getting hit at night. They ricochet off the tires into the underside of the cars and sound like an explosion...lol

You are right...this year is a bumper crop.

Watch out for this winter season.

Facebook Marketplace "Free, but you must take them all."

^^^ Lol...that would be an excellent deal...for me!
Send them over.

This is where stretching becomes really important.

^^^ I measured it with a rope.
Wrapped it around..took it off and measured.

I think you should chop it down and send it to someone for the PPOT Christmas gift exchange.

Via Fed-Ex. :D

^^^cod?

Hell... get Seahawk's name. It's not even 3' in diameter... he's got a generator and 4 batteries to work that sucker up into firewood.

That's a toy tree ;)

Wait a minute!
Any deals...include stump grinding. Does he have a battery powered stump grinder?

I think it's an attachment for a 58V log splitter :D

^^^ That should do it. :rolleyes:

I believe you but if you're gonna shake a tree 9ft in circumference...;)

Also, will you take any trades for those walnuts?

If you didn't have many years in one pile, I am sure you could get someone to come get them since you piled them up. They will keep a long time unshelled under good conditions.

Wish I was closer. I made my bathroom counters out of large slabs of Black walnut. They turned out beautiful. A tree that size could produce many board feet of some nice wood. Slicing it up make a differeance. Where a large limb comes into the trunk, if cut in the right manner, make for some beautiful patterns.

Gotcha...I thought you meant I was exaggerating!

In my original post, I put dia. instead of circum.
Went back and fixed it. A 9ft dia tree would be big for MI :eek:

I've turned over a few shovels of them before. They are a slimy black mess under a few inches down. That hull, or meat, doesn't dry up. Plus the leaves mixed in keep the air from helping.

Yep, crotches make for nice wood. (no pun intended, no really)

Asked my wife about taking the tree down, got the stink eye from her. Stays awhile longer I guess. At 75, I’m tired of raking and shoveling the little bastard nuts up.

Ha! The worst part of raking them up is when the grass grows too much before getting a chance to do it.
After I rake them up, I lower the JD to about 2 inches to mow it. Makes the next raking a lot easier. It's almost like raking on a golf green.

Put a sign up that says "Please don't steal the walnuts."

They should be gone by the morning.

^^^ Trouble is...we have zero theft in my area...good Dutch neighbors!
Maybe a buy one get the rest free might work.

Pretty sure that is a chestnut.