For anyone interested, my neighbor had a large black walnut tree cut down. There are huge pieces available on the curb if you want them. Full disclosure, the tree was hollow and had bees but some pieces are still pretty solid. The tree was 2.5 - 3 feet in diameter.
The bulk trash pickup is this week but there’s never any guarantee which day they come (likely not until Thursday). The address is 7223 Piedmont Dr Dallas, TX 75227.
What size pieces did they cut the tree down to?
Hrrrm I did enjoy turning a little puck of black walnut someone forgot to trash in a lathe chuck the other day. Storage is an issue for me though 
@indytruks138 you bring a chainsaw I’ll help load, that’s not weird right?
I’m down to help grab some. Let me know if you head out there.
I was hoping I could make it after work today but it doesn’t appear likely.
Most of the pieces are 2-3 feet long. Some have branch sections.
If it’s still around I might be able to swing by with my chainsaws. Just can’t afford to make the trip and it not be there. Lots of bowl blanks there I presume…
As of about 5pm Tuesday, I have grabbed 5 of the easier to find sections. There were at least two nice ones still in the open when I left, and several that while the core was rotted out would still likely produce nice platter and shallow bowl blanks. (Please be careful of bee hives and a few stragglers that did not follow the colony wherever they swarmed). There is also a remaining pile bigger than an F150 that is branches and whatnot on top that I expect has a lot more trunk and heavy branch sections under it. This was a big tree.
I’m a little sore after loading and unloading that solo. 
If you go digging, please be mindful of a couple of young trees planted behind the pile and not topple or stack branches on them, or so near that bulk pickup with the grapple might accidentally grab them.
Damn, should have gone but I didn’t wanna drive 50 miles round-trip for nothing. I thought bees were protected now and had to be removed properly…
Marshall and I went out and grabbed as much as my Suburban would hold.
Nice stuff. The bees didn’t mess with us. Thanks for the heads up on the wood.
Ok Superman, I want to know how you got those by yourself. They are at least 700 pound sections. Marshall and I got a couple smaller ones and Pat and I went back for one of the larger ones.
ETA: I should have just said 50 year old office geeks are sometimes more than they appear.
The right mechanical advantage helps considerably, but it was still a major effort. I’ll admit tipping them over, and changing where they were aligned was a challenge, and standing them back up was even more fun.
Whatever you do, you don’t ever want to have them come back down on you, or fall off the side on you.
I will also add, I refused to be below them when lowering. Too much risk of them getting away on descent. I set the ramps a bit further apart, and tied a line to the trailer hitch, which in turn wrapped over the log, and to a bridle from both front tie points, with a block and cleat. In hindsight, I should have had just a heavy (1,000 lb rated) caribiener at the bridle, and run the line to the block and cleat at one of the rear tie downs. The friction of the rope running through the caribiener would have provided a welcome reduction in holding force while lowering, and made it easier to watch and guide the sections onto the ramp while standing in the bed. I did have a couple get away in the bottom foot of the ramp, but neither went more than a couple feet in any direction.
WOW!!! and wowzousy also
Man is the tool using animal
ugh, I hate i missed that!
A lot of the hollow pieces still left and maybe one or two good solid ones. I’ll look at the pile and post again when I get off work.
Did you happen to notice if they were I need a truck and chain saw pieces or manageable like they were?
