Smells like cherry when cutting. Wood color leans cherry. Leaves look like pear. Bark? Wood is petrified hardwood.
Could be a fruit pear, but I don’t see any fruit on the tree or ground. I guess they could already be gone
I think pears are like apples where they need to be cross pollinated by another pear, close by. If it’s a lone tree then maybe it flowered in the spring but couldn’t set fruit.
I had a couple of reliable sources look at the wood and they said cherry. So here’s what I’m thinking. The wood was next to the Pear and the Pear had a leader cut off, but maybe the wood isn’t from the pear. I didn’t see a stump, but it could be covered in wood, or vines. At some point trees were cut down and cut on for a chainlink fence installation. It could be the cherry was an old slow growing woods tree with tighter growth rings making it feel heavier and harder than most cherries I have cut. Some of the wood in the pile was punky mush. That could be the real pear. Mystree continues. I’ll go back for some of the bigger solid pieces still laying in the woods.
Terrible at tree id but many years ago before I had equipment to pick up logs I cut down a big old cherry. I don’t remember any wood heavier than that I think the stump cut is still buried in the weeds on that fencerow. I couldn’t budge it. I’ve picked up oak twice the size of that cherry round. It was alive and soaking wet inside, may have something to do with it.
Id say dead cherry on those too. I havent scrounged a whole lot of dead cherry but what i have looked just like those.
Can Bradford pears get that big? They seem really susceptible to breakage here and are mostly ornamental.
