Needed to get these cherry logs out of the way so today was a good day to cut them up. I just love the smell when cutting cherry! Also seemed fitting to cut these up on President’s Day in honor of GW. I still have some more cherry logs but they are buried behind all sorts of other logs. This will be the most cherry I’ve ever had. Currently have about 6 cords split in the pile and hope to end up with at least 15 cords when finished.
Processing cherry is always fun. Its too bad they cant create a strain of cherry with the btu's of mulberry/hickory/ locust.
I split some cherry up on Saturday, kinda anxious to burn it. Does cherry throw alot of sparks? Better in a stove or fine in a fireplace?
Not much sparking so it should be fine in a fireplace. One thing I noticed is it can leave a lot of charred chunks behind, so mixing some other species with it helps you get a more complete burn.
I like the title of this thread. In the morning after a good meal my wife drops the Ahhh, and replaces it with G_d D_mn.
One of the more pleasant wood smells. Cant imagine the aroma emulating from a pile as big as yours. Folks downwind must love it. Processed some cherry in the last few weeks myself and have a pile of rounds to split.
Cherry isn’t a great BTU firewood, but awesome in all other aspects. Great flames, low smoke and sparks and nice aroma. I sell a lot of cherry and white oak ricks. Best combination of firewoods in my opinion.
No sparks and IME it doesnt throw big flames like soft maple more of a smaller lazy flame. The 12 month seasoning time is optimistic unless you split small Ive found 2 years much better.
I've burned several Cherry crotches lately and they left lots of charred chunks. The wood was 2.5 years seasoned.
