Finished the last timber cut for 2017 last Friday.

Nice!

What wood is that? Looks like walnut?

Yep, you are right.

A cornfield for a landing, that’s living!

That looks like a lot of valuable lumber, how much?

Do you know where it'll go, and what will be made from it?

Lots of nice gun stocks in there..:)

There are some veneer logs so it will bring up the value considerable. I won't know how it scales out until I get the check in the mail. I will be able to buy mama a new dress and pair of shoes.

They tell me there is a market for it in the furniture industry in the southeastern states and Japan and China, even India.

Yeah, you just touched a nerve with me.
They run an add on the radio talking about all the valuable standing timber in Pa.
We take a valuable natural resource, cut it down (absolute minimum value added),
mill some of it, veneer goes out whole. The ship it out (mostly overseas) where they
make a fortune building furniture. WTF.

If you take a backhoe and dig out those black walnut stumps whole from the ground, you would find the absolute best gunstock blanks still there in the taproot.

Actually, about 5 years ago, a guy contacted the local sawmills looking for leads on excavating Black walnut stumps. Some landowners participated, but there must not have been a steady market because I have not heard of any more activity.

We logged a section of woods 2 years ago and cut some walnut. One load of them brought as much as 3 or 4 of the oak.

That is the relationship of the value of the logs but it changes the percentage of money the logger receives.

For example most of the timber I cut is made up of mixed tree species so I bid it 60/40 - 60% landowner and 40% for me. If I bid on select cut walnut, I bid it 70/30. The lowest bid ever was in 2010 when I got a walnut bid at 80/20, but I still made out like a bandit.

Nice logs and logging operation there. I have many Walnut Trees on my property, Walnut brings good money around here along with White Oak.