I did cut it with my MS261... I wanted to harvest a nice cherry tree before the sawmill guy gets here. Broke my tape measure - over 30ft before the first branch on the top side. There's a small stub of a branch at 15' on the other side. Ain't that the purdiest cherry ya ever did see?
She's a beaut, Shawn! Most of my woods is cherry, I have some that are 80ft bean poles that are maybe 8-10" very few large ones anymore though . The few larger ones I have all have huge cankers. That's going to be some nice lumber to add to your stash.
Wow, what a great find! I know it's pretty early... but have you come up with any plans for the lumber?
And it's not hollow. Most of it around our area that has any size is normally hollow and has ants. Looks like nice lumber! Sent from my Z832 using Tapatalk
That sure is a straight tree! Ive been wondering lately about the cherry trees you guys cut out there. Are they the same ones that you would get edible cherries off of? Kind of a dumb question but we dont get them in the rockies unless they are a yard tree. I have a client who has a yard cherry that snapped over the winter that Im going to harvest but ill keep most of the branches for cookin and may only get 3 or 4 18 inch long rounds for the wood stove. To bloody hot here to cut right now so it will have to wait.
I'm not sure if they'd use it for root stock but the ones you buy in the store are are domesticated like apples and grafted from select stock. It does grow edible cherries but they don't get very big.
That should be some beautiful lumber and fantastic to work with. Locally they are called choke cherries as they are very bitter. The fruit is small and the pits take up most of the inside of the fruit. I've only heard of it being made into wine.
Actually choke cherry is Prunus virginiana; wild black cherry is Prunus serotina. From Wikipedia: "Black cherry is closely related to the chokecherry (Prunus virginiana); chokecherry, however, is classified as a shrub or small tree and has smaller, less glossy leaves." I've had some of the cherries off of a blown down tree, and they did taste like black cherries: more sweet than tart. But they were small and mostly pit.
Yeah a lot of people call them choke cherries here too, just a local colloquialism. As when stated it is raining cats and dogs not too many people go looking for actual cats and dogs.
Gotcha, kinda like calling any tree with needles a "pine". But the one with bitter cherries is actually a different closely related species.
Actually the birds don't get that much! It is coon, possum, turkeys and deer that get the bulk of the cherries. It is a great mast crop for the wildlife.
That's a great cherry Shawn. Looks like there is only a couple small bends in it so you'll get some good lumber from it. Nice size too!
bitter-berries/chokecherries supposedly grow around here but I've never seen one. I've taken to calling black cherry or wild black cherry just to avoid the confusion using the "wrong" name causes. The birds certainly eat plenty of the fruit when it ripens in the late Summer. If you've owned a white car ........
