Anyone want to take down a reasonably sized black walnut tree for the wood? It is located in an inauspicious place in our Normal Park yard, plus the poor thing has been pruned very badly by DTE. It's at least 32" in diameter, so not huge, but not a sapling. Should be a reasonable amount of wood there. Following this link shows the approximate size of the trunk, but the top limbs have been cut back in bizarre and unhealthful ways. Eventually, the remaining limbs will fall on my neighbor's garage.
Heeeeeeyyyyyyy, remember my tree? Doesn't someone want to contact me about the lush, supple, chocolatey-grained, silky hardwood, that is just expectantly quivering in my back yard, awaiting harvest?
It might be worth checking with Peter Thomason to see if he might be interested in harvesting your walnut tree. While he's perhaps better known around Ypsi for promoting the idea of backyard poultry, he's also working on a project involving coffins custom-crafted from Michigan lumber. The idea is that you could have this great piece of walnut furniture in your house functioning as a cabinet/armoir or what-have-you while you're alive, then when you pass on, your coffin is ready for you--a coffin that you'd have a personal connection to in the form of its builder, and, in your case, the tree that grew in your yard.
Also, maybe check out the guy at woodwardwoodworks.com. I saw his card this morning at Mi Hut, maybe he could take the wood off your hands.
Thanks for those two great ideas! My garden could use the sunshine -- and maybe I could get a coffin out of it.
:-)
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