Tree experts

[Mr Panda]

That's a big walnut! Don't think I've seen one over 40'.

Be careful up there

 

[marin man]

Ours is leaning at maybe forty five degrees, still probably makes seventy feet.

Full of squirrels and cats.

I can do most of the work on it just climbing up it.

Too heavy for those extending limbs though.

pic of walnut tree hf.....nice one by the sounds....you get nuts of it then :?

My neighbour had a big walnut tree and the coating round the nuts so to speak was all sticky and used to get walked in her house....they cut it down :roll: :roll:

 

[gibbleking]

the wood fetches a fair bit too...dont throw the big stuff away...flog it on the bay....they will collect...

 

[highlandsflyer]

Ours is leaning at maybe forty five degrees, still probably makes seventy feet.

Full of squirrels and cats.

I can do most of the work on it just climbing up it.

Too heavy for those extending limbs though.

pic of walnut tree hf.....nice one by the sounds....you get nuts of it then :?

My neighbour had a big walnut tree and the coating round the nuts so to speak was all sticky and used to get walked in her house....they cut it down :roll: :roll:

If you have lots of squirrels you don't get to see much of your nuts. They start on them as soon as they are formed practically.

Anyway, what is confusing you?

It is a Juglans nigra, google it you can find plenty pictures!

I have seen bigger. Guess it would be near a hundred feet if it were straight. That is not unusual.

 

[IDB1]

If you have lots of squirrels you don't get to see much of your nuts. They start on them as soon as they are formed practically.

If t'were my tree, Mr. Squirrel would be eating lead pellet... unless the little fella (and fella-ette) were of the red variety...

100' tree.. how big is the yard?? :shock:

 

[highlandsflyer]

The tree overshadows both neighbours, but everyone is fine with it as it provides shade. It is probably fifty odd feet in span.

I love red squirrels too, but the cats and foxes control the grey squirrels well enough for me not to bother.

Anyway our tenants feed them, as do the neighbours.

They help themselves if you don't...

I know they are a pain in the butt, but healthy grey squirrels are still better than no squirrels, in terms of the urban food chain. We have woodpeckers too. My particular favourites.

 

[IDB1]

Woodpeckers are awesome.. only ever seen 2..

I like squirrels but they'd get right on my paps munching nuts in my tree (probably not a good idea to start popping them off over the neighbours gardens though )

Wish my neighbour-folk had planted something more interesting than a Cotoneaster (it is rather a nice tree... I prefer Rhododendrons and Magnolias - walnut or fig would have been good too )

 

[highlandsflyer]

Rhododendrons? Choose your variety carefully, we spend thousands of man (sorry, person) hours getting rid of 'em up here!

 

[IDB1]

They'd be in tubs.. I aint that silly