Black Walnut from Nut Seed to Timber Tree with Leo C. Bird 1993
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- This is a video I produced for Leo C. Bird of Stockton, Kansas. The video was completed on 7/21/93. He was an avid tree farmer and wanted to make this video on how to grow and care for Black Walnut and Oak trees. This was a very extensive production and took several months to put together. Hundreds of copies of this video was sold in the 90's. Leo passed away on 8/25/13.
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I grew up 30 miles from his farm. Next time i go out that way, I'm gonna look for it. He passed away in 2013
30 years later and still so much useful information thank you so much 😊
Thanks for the video, I can tell how much he enjoyed planting and caring for these trees. RIP Leo
Outstanding Video. I wish I had met Leo Bird. His concluding remarks are the reflective comments of a true conservationist.
He must not have many squirrels around. All my spring nut tree plantings have to be covered with a 1' x 1' piece of hardware cloth held down by rocks.
This is the best information i have ever seen. Thank you
I think his monologue at the end of the video was wonderful…
Excellent video, very informative & the poem & closing statements rang true. R.I.P. Leo
What a wealth of information! Thanks for the excellent video & the knowledge. The closing comments are riveting and enlightening.
Great video, always relevant information. I like the end where he essentially lets you know you need to flee the city, drop the Zoloft and work with nature as the true and natural cure to mental issues and happiness. And now time to go back out for a second round of black walnut seed collection.
Great instructional video, it motivated me even more to start a black walnut orchard. Thanks
This man was very knowledgeable
any update on the trees ? its been 30 years now since he planted these walnuts
Unfortunately, Leo C Bird was killed in a tragic tree accident. His family are asking that you NOT send walnuts to his funeral.
Thanks for the video!! The info is very helpful. I’m not sure if burying the seeds like that will work for me. My new neighbors might think I’m hiding a body lol
Thank you. A labour of love for Leo! We have 5 or 6 large butternut trees that are dropping seeds and we hope to follow Leo's methods to help them propagate successfully throughout the rest of our hardwood forest in Cavan, Ontario.
Leo was very passionate about his trees.
Couldn't tell you how many videos I've watched about growing trees and pruning. Although he did not explain in great detail his pruning practice, I could understand better than any of the others. First, tell them how to do it, then show 'em how to do it, then let 'em TRY.
very informative, thank you!
You’re welcome. Thanks for watching.
1 tip to increase $$$ value in later years of the lumber ----while still young always take off lower limbs up 8-9 ft this prevents a knot where a large limb was removed this knot lowers $$$$ value 1/3 when peeling the vaneer ???? for paneling tht knot hole has to be plugged making it 2nds
very few people do this but you can tap a black walnut tree just like a maple and boil it down for syrup bore a 3/8 hole about waist high under neath a large limb insert a plastic tube let it drip in a clean bucket tap all the black walnut trees collect sap daily place a piece of cheese cloth over bucket to keep out-- trash -- sap will start flow ing when you remove the drill so have the tube ready
Great Video and thanks for sharing!
when he pruned that coppiced tree with three shoots, it seemed like he picked the thinnest shoot. I wonder why? Awesome video, thank you for sharing it!
Great video of your work! As about trees you comment that would be suitable only for a fire wood dose may command a premium price in a future as popularity of slab, live edge furniture is gaining popularity and demand and dose ,,defective " trees with lots of croches and knots will yield most gorges patterns of grains on a cutt that can surpass in value any veneer quality logs by many times
Great info. Thanks!
Beautiful!
Great story that you made. Did anyone take over planting the trees?
I don't know if any of the kids or grandkids are still doing it or not. I haven't had contact with anyone since Leo about the tree farm.
Is there any reason we can't plant the Black Walnut nuts in the husk soon after they fall from the trees and add the tree shelter at that time? Thanks.
Forgot to mention how bad the stains are DO NOT TOUCH THE HUSKS.
Спасибо из России - Thanks from Russia.
why remove the husk?
Why not just plant them in the ground in late fall and let Mother Nature do what she was made to do. A lot less work. Squirrels do it every year and it works. The strong ones survive.
Good question that I can’t answer. Hopefully someone can. I would assume with the extra steps there is a higher percentage of trees that come to life.
If you have no wintertime nut predation from squirrels you can plant in the fall. However, there are very few fields where this is the case. Squirrels are remarkably adept at figuring out visual clues such as tire marks, cultivator marks, etc. and they will find and decimate fall plantings of nuts. They'll do that in the spring too but they have less time to do so, as they don't want the nut after the seedling is up and growing. I'm a black walnut farmer and grow from seeds when I can. Another thing some do is plant hoards of nuts in rows knowing that squirrels will get 90+% of them but that a few nuts will make it. But when you do that you lose the cross row alignment of the future trees and are unable to mow cross-rows in the future. That is bad news for long term vegetation management. You can plant nuts under wire mesh that will gradually rust away, or in rusty cans. These methods work but add tremendously to the labor during nut planting. Squirrel predation of nuts is a constant headache and is one of the biggest reasons to plant seedlings instead of seeds. Hope this helps.
@@marknussbaum8394 definitely squirrels are an issue if you live in an area with a lot of them. I live in crop country. Not a lot of squirrels around my farm. Too much open space to traverse to get to my place for them. Lots of red tail hawks and eagles around here. I do have a friend who owns 640 acres of timber. He can’t grow anything without squirrels raising it. They chew the wires off the motor on his trucks and tractors. You name it they chew it up. I finally gave him 3 rat terrier dogs and they hate squirrels so he doesn’t have as much of a problem with them anymore. Lol I put about 300 black walnuts from the trees on my place in a livestock tank covered in good black dirt mixed with sand and peer moss about 4 inches. Covered with hardware cloth. Looking forward to seeing if they sprout come spring. I made black walnut stain out of the husks.
Squirrels have a low opinion of the grower's need for even spacing and rows. They also enjoy a rate of planting success which I envy.
@@marknussbaum8394 true they will watch you and investigate what you were doing later and they can smell out the nuts
now we have an invader from asia making its way across the USA the Spotted Lanternfly they prefer tree of heaven and grape vineyards but will go after walnuts also
We use to dump out bushels of them and run them over with the truck.
I throw them on my asphalt driveway and drive over them with my small car. Our F350 truck will break them but the car will only loosen the husks so they almost fall off.