Urban Trees -Their Value as Timber or Veneer, excerpt from article.
From: http://ohioline.osu.edu/
The cost and difficulty of harvesting urban trees also discourages the purchase of urban walnuts. Unless the trees are of truly exceptional value, it is rarely economical for a buyer to invest crew and equipment time in traveling to harvest one or two trees.
In addition, many urban trees are close to houses, power lines, or other facilities, making them more difficult, time consuming, and expensive to harvest. The combination of poor quality, high risk of embedded objects, and potentially difficult logging results in most urban walnut trees being of little interest to timber or veneer buyers.
This does not mean that buyers would not be interested in an urban walnut that had a 30-inch diameter trunk, 32 feet of merchantable height in a straight trunk that was virtually free from visible defects, located in the middle of a large back yard away from any utilities or buildings. Unfortunately, there are very few such trees.
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