Left work a little early since it was absolutely beautiful outside. Went right to the woods on the path to my spring and decided to finally put this tree out of it's misery. It had "fallen over" but landed on a smaller tree and managed to stay rooted and keep growing. Good size, 14" dia base and will make a nice addition for next season. So, without giving it away...can anyone guess what it is...
Since you say it's a nice addition for next year, I'll say cherry as well. I can't think what else that resembles your picture would be ready by next year. The again, sometimez I just can't think.
I noticed that you didn't show the bark as that would have given it away. I didn't even know Cherry grew that far south, now I do.
It's cherry. You said you didn't know what besides cherry would be ready for next year...the ash and hackberry that I'll be cutting this weekend.
Yep...I've got a lot of cherry on my place. If I would have shown the bark it would have made it too easy.
Yep, the ash will be ready but I'm not so sure on the hack. The last I cut was not ready in a year, after 2 it was good to go but it didn't get burned until the 3 year. But then seasioning time includes many variables that can affect the seasioning time either way. I found the hackberry to be nice birning wood with good heat and long burn times in my catalytic stove. Hope you enjoy it!
Hackberry is probably 50% of what I burn each year out of about 12 species that I regularly have in my hoard. I only go after down, damaged or standing dead trees 98% of the time...but the other 2% of the time I enjoy taking down a big Hackberry and all the sounds it makes as it comes crashing down...
I love the cherry smell when its been stacked right and burned after a few years. I made the mistake of not stacking some right and that took my good fuel away. Only problem is that would have probably been best in the woodstove if I had one. The coolest part of the cherry I had was this "heart of the tree" , this ball part of the tree where the branches came out and began to spread. You can see all of the intertwined branches that met, I count about 5, which is why it resembles so close to that anatomy. The photo is the bottom end I recut to take care of some slight rot that didn't hurt the integrity. Next time I get a cherry it will be better taken care of.
I was staring at that round like those pictures from the 90's where you had to unfocus your eyes and you would see something. I think I saw a spaceship in your picture! I haven't collected the cherry I cut yet, waiting for it to dry out to get the tractor up there. What exactly is needed to store it correctly? I was going to split it and store it on a concrete slab under my shop overhang for the time being. I'm building a new wood shed (have an old barn I'm using right now that I'll continue to use) and I stack everything on pallets.
