It's been a busy week. I started on this wood last weekend. A guy had cut down two trees in his yard in town and had cut it up and stacked it. I was second in line to get it and the guy before me broke down on the way. I got five solid truckloads out of it over the week. Theres a lot of stuff that is cut short, and long, but its all solid maple with a smaller mystree mixed in. This was a load I cut up last weekend and had been too muddy to get to till today. Theres some oak and pine in there with a half a load of stuff im not sure what. This stuff has only been sitting for a week and its cracking from the inside out already. I thought it might be cherry from the bark and heartwood, but I've never had cherry wood and I don't think it smells that great. Its not as heavy as the oak but heavier than the pine. Any ideas?
Yea, it had broad leaves at the top and a crown. Im pretty sure its a hardwood and the leaves looked similar to a cherry tree. If it is id like to sell it separately next year as smokewood.
Cherry usually smells very good when cut/split. If it turned your nose sour, I doubt cherry. Looks like it though.
Another vote for cherry here. In the last picture, lower right hand corner look closely at the bark. You can see the remnants of the horizontal lenticels that are pronounced when the tree is younger. As it matures those go away and the bark gets flaky.
Its cherry. This said without seeing the other replies. Even though a lot of burners like it, im not fond of the smell either.
Hand splits rather easy for the most part although ive encountered some with twist that can make it tougher.
Agreed, it’s not typical for the cherry I’ve gotten. I’m not convinced it’s black cherry, just some sort of cherry. Could be the location too. Being grown in an area that was an inland sea millions of years ago, maybe the trees there grow a little different with the soil composition.
I got to splitting some of those rounds and I gave it another sniff. It actually smells pretty good and split easy. The picture doesn't do just to the color, but it is more red than it looks. I think the mystree I had mixed in with that maple tree is hickory. I used to split for a guy who sold hickory to restaurants and it smells similar. What do you guys think?
First pic is cherry, second looks like birch, maybe choke cherry, third pic is cherry. None look like hickory that i can see. Possibly the "Y" split in the first pic.
