Walnut log deal

[Woodwould]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agcLlKcXp40]walnut log deal - YouTube[/ame]

[BobL]

Love it!

[Pagie]

I'll buy it for $100

[rustynail]

And the winner is?........Nobody.

[metricky]

How true!

[Sigidi]

Ditto

[Wongo]

That is gold WW. I can see this link being posted many many times in the future.

BTW I have a garden full of grass. Does anyone want to cut them? I am not greedy, so you can take the grass with you for free.

[Waldo]

Good one Woolwould. Wonder when the question will be asked and which miller in here will make the first post with reference to the YouTube video.

I will instead sell you a seed of Black Walnut, you can pay me now for the 30 cub it will yield in many years time, that way you save many costs and I make money too. I don't live in Nigeria, so I am an honest person.

[Ozkaban]

Love it.

Our own homegrown version (though not in video) is here courtesy of journeyman Mick... forever bookmarked in the folder "Worthy Threads"

[dai sensei]

Reminds me of an ad for a property for sale around here recently, it said the property included a plantation of very valuable silky oak trees, there was a small paddock of what looked like 2 year old saplings

[rustynail]

Having spent about 30 years sourcing timber on a commercial basis and also privately to fuel my personal addiction, I have heard the same thing many times. "Huge stand of whatever... how much is it worth?" Answer.... How long is a piece of string. Or "They tell me your buying cedar.....what ya offering?" Answer..... Lets go and have a look.
Yet from the other perspective I have met blokes that have "sold" standing timber to getters who have done a runner after loading their semis, only to find the licence plates on the trucks they had written down for security were old, out of circulation plates. In one particular case , they had told the property owner they were only interested in felling 2nd grade hardwood for pallet manufacture. I counted 6 rosewood stumps and 9 cedar stumps among the remains. Actions like this, in some ways, make my job easier as property holders are becoming very carefull who they give contracts to.
I have waxed lyrical a few times on this forum concerning matters of etiquette pertaining to timber getting and the "fast buck, she'll be right" mentality that seems to crop up from time to time. I think, if asked to select one word to embrace all of this , it would be RESPECT. Respect the seller, the buyer, the miller, the consumer and most of all the product.

[nifty]

Could not tell you how many big Jarrah and Blackbutts Ive walked away from because of that very attitude. But I could also tell you of how many Ive got for nothing so that they dont go to waste. I like to think there is a balance there somewhere.