Went over to the Uncles house yesterday evening. I had managed to save this tree plus about 6 locust from his Bobcat while he was cleaning his land up. I'm hoping to use it for smoking wood, from all I've heard about it. Plus I went ahead and made some Cedar chips. I cut the Cedar down to about 12". I'm hoping to split them small enough for fire starters.
Nice score! I never run across Cedar, and agree it should make some nice fire starters.... I have about a half a cord of cherry in my stacks. I think it's a great choice for cooking fires or smoking. And locust too!
As with any wood you plan to use for smoking, limit or eliminate the bark which can give your food a bitter taste.
One thing suprised was the lack of smell. I'd figure there would have been a smell to it. Oh yea locust is going to be nice, they aren't too big. But one is a thorny honey locust and the others are black locust.
Pretty certain of it. One way to tell Black Cherry is the bark of older/mature/slow growing trees looks like thick burnt potato chips or corn flakes.Where as Chokecherry wood is similar in appearance but is a large shrub/small tree with smoother bark. Bark from the few domestic Cherries I've seen isn't quite the same as either one of those,but the wood is pretty much equal in all respects.
Yep it looks like corn flakes. I knew it was a cherry, but didn't know the variety.... Cool, hopefully it'll be good...I'm trying it tonight...
