Aww Nuts...It's That Time of the Year Again.

[stevej37]

Saturday there was windy and rainy...my walnut tree dropped about half of it's nuts.
The ground was covered and almost impossible to walk on...just like walking on baseballs.
I raked and shoveled them into my XL wheelbarrow....8 crowned loads so far. Looks to be about that much again still hanging in the tree. My compost hill is getting too high...hard to get the wheelbarrow up to the top.

[masraum]

I've got several pecan trees. They haven't produced many pecans the past two years because of drought conditions. Even if they did, they are smaller, and don't get toxic black juice/crud every where.

Looks and sounds like a huge PITA.

[stevej37]

^^^
The last two years here have been similar....maybe 3 wheelbarrows for each season.

The tree is close enough to the road that about a quarter of them fall and lay in the road.
Then when a car or truck runs over them the inside nut gets squeezed out like a stone. Makes a lot of noise....esp when it hits the underside of the car.

[Rusty Heap]

gas can
match
problem solved.

[stevej37]

^^^ It's a huge Black Walnut tree in the front yard. Very nice looking and provides a lot of shade.
Before burning it, I would sell it for the wood.

edit: I measured the circumference....9' 4"

[pavulon]

Mast year?

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2020/10/what-is-a-mast-year/

[stevej37]

^^^ I think it's closer to a normal year. The last couple years were nice because there was so few nuts. I thought being a very mature tree that it might continue that way...nope.

[TimT]

I have acorns from a big ass Oak raining on my roof now.....More than I've experienced recently... walking on them is like walking on marbles... and the squirrels cant take enough of them away

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Let your mower explain it to them:


And perhaps this winter buy one of these to sharpen the blades to come around for a second pass:
edit - not necessarily a HF grinder... you get my drift

[stevej37]

^^^
I mow with a JD GX335 and pull a 5 hp trac-vac with it.
I've tried lowering the deck to a 2 inch height and picking them up with the trac-vac. The trouble is that it's impossible to do that without running over the nuts with the tractor tires and pressing them into the sod. Once that happens...it leaves a 2 inch round 'no grass' spot until the nut is dug out.

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Just show the nuts the Khan pic. They will up and leave!

[stevej37]

The first year we lived here....I was out raking and picking up the walnuts when a car stopped.
The guy asked if he could have them. He said he puts them on his gravel driveway and drives over them for months until the skin and pulp is gone and then cracks the nuts open to eat them.

He picked up almost a truck bed full and left.....never saw him again.

[thingmon]

Pecan trees here. Not nearly as bad as black walnuts.

That'll be a nice pay out, if you ever have to take it down.
https://8billiontrees.com/trees/black-walnut-tree-value-calculator/

[stevej37]

^^^ I have asked a couple hardwood tree buyers about removing and selling the wood to them.
Both said that without any guarantees of no staples, nails, or wires in the core, they wouldn't do it.

I can't guarantee that...the tree was half the size when we moved in.

[porsche tech]

The guy next to me when we lived in VA had a walnut tree that shed different stuff all year long…right onto my patio! I told him I would pay to have it cut down. He said no he was going to cut it down and collect the money for it. He did cut it down in one big long piece, even had to have a crane come in there. Then it laid there for months as he could not find anyone who wanted it for the exact reason you describe…the saw mills were worried about messing up their expensive saw blades.

[Tobra]

Had a patient sold the Walnut tree in his yard to a guy who made rifle stocks. There was some miscommunication, ending with, "Wait a minute, I am buying the wood and paying [I]you[I]

North of 10 grand it was

[thingmon]

Originally Posted by stevej37

^^^ I have asked a couple hardwood tree buyers about removing and selling the wood to them.
Both said that without any guarantees of no staples, nails, or wires in the core, they wouldn't do it.

I can't guarantee that...the tree was half the size when we moved in.

True. A tree that big might have a few bicycles and a car tied up in it.

[stevej37]

Picked up another 5 wheelbarrows full today. It dried off enough so that I could mow under and around the tree to make raking the rest of them easier. I lowered the deck height to two inches and now when they fall they won't be buried in the grass.

[flatbutt]

I would imagine that such a tree could bring a nice price from a furniture maker.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by thingmon

True. A tree that big might have a few bicycles and a car tied up in it.

Jimmy Hoffa might be in there.... I would SO cut that dang thing down .... just to see

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