Location northern Virginia. I found this on next door. I have primarily interested for my wood meat smoker so the idea of the wood is important to me. my first thought was white oak but I wanted to see if you guys could give me a second or third opinion. Thanks!
Most of it looks like cherry to me but I’m the worst wood ider going. Someone will know. There’s some leaves present.
Are those leaves from the tree? If they are it’s not white oak, white oak has rounded lobes, not pointed. Up here in PA cherry has an alligator scale type bark, for my area that’s not cherry. Just from the pic I would go with red oak family.
This answer. Smaller tree looks like Elm possibly? The log on top that buZZsaw BRAD pointed out. Grab it!
Thanks everyone! I tend to agree with y'all that it's probably cherry. Gonna be good wood for pork and brisket later this year and into 2021!
That log appears to be a hickory. Pignut or Mockernut. Note the dark center. Like dahmer said the bark on some of the other wood doesn't look like our PA cherry BUT I see some orange looking cambium layer on some of the rounds. that says cherry Show us some split pics if you can wolfpackwx.
As soon as I open the fence to the backyard I knew the smell was 100% cherry. Hauled as much as I could by myself and into my Tahoe (should have removed the baby car seat...). Whoever pointed out that there was another tree you were correct but that only made up 5% of the pile. The large chunks at the bottom of the tree were so beautiful but would have needed to be split on site and boy they would have taken a while to cut through! Of course the wood was at the bottom of a steep backyard with wet ground so it wasn't the easiest hall but I could not pass it up! With this I will easily have enough for one entire season of smoking pork and brisket!!
That seat woulda held at least 2 smaller rounds... jus’ sayin’..... Glad you went after it. Cherry is hard to beat on the smoker.
I'm going back for more today. Friends challenged me to take the larger rounds and make a stump table. Sizes are perfect for a try and if it fails, I can always burn it!
I like it. Do you have a hand truck (and some ratchet straps since you mentioned a steep grade)? Might be easier on you getting the heavier rounds to your wood hauler.
