Stacked some cherry today, feels really good when its a far cry from when you first split it. Not like a heavy weighted newspaper but empty milk carton. Good stuff!
When you cut them down here they send shoots up pretty quick. I copse them every Spring for garden sticks as many of the shoots grow very straight. Eventually I have a rather ragged looking stump with as many as 20 or more shoots, then it's time to hit it with some round up as the shoots get difficult to prune and are mostly well arced which have little value. We have a rather generous population of tent caterpillars in them this year. Just as it looks like the gypsy moths may have declined a little, sigh ...
Those also tend to grow new shoots from the roots. Sometimes they will grow on our open sand and then the roots will even come out of the ground. New shoots come up too.
I love cherry, one of my favorite when I can get my hands on some. The problem is I don't want to get my hands on some because that means I have one less cherry in the woods. It's particularly stressing. Nice score anyway!
Absolutely..my friend had a big cherry fall over back around March. This is part of the load I had to go back for...the rest was hauled off with the persimmon that took the cherry down with it. Second pic is part of a cherry that fell over in my woods.
My neighbor had a cherry fall down in his yard and the tip, maybe 20 feet of tree was sticking out. Probably had been down 3-4 years. I finally went and asked him if it was ok to cut and gather, so i did. The rest of the tree is a writeoff. Very spongy. If you dont get to it in time it really does act like white birch or any birch for that matter. I also grabbed some cherry from a friend who took his down and got some good rounds out of it but the sticks i got were likely written off for being in the rain. Cherry does burn really nicely and others seem to appreciate it differently than others. Not to change the subject too much but I had found some apple in a free pick up. Dry dry dry. Amazingly. The flame was a purple orange as I left a heart of it on the pit fire. Cherry I could see doing a similar thing in my fire too. Just a very nice hard good burning wood that doesn't require the drying time like some do. If I had cherry all the time it would do the job. I just like variety for the joys of burning.
I could not agree more. The cherry that fell in my woods managed to stay rooted and kept growing. I decided to put it out of it's misery. But the base where it split did begin to rot rather quickly. I got about 5 tractor bucket loads out of it...5 times that picture. I also like the variety of burning...I actually have some sassafras I'm going out of my way for in the fall because I just want to try it.
I might have run into some with some pallet blocks i pick up. They do have this rootbeer like smell to them when ive split them.
