Can you ID this tree?

This is standing dead in one of my spots, and I'm trying to figure out if it's worth cutting. Any idea what it is?

 

Looks like it could be a big cherry. Chop it down!

 

One more vote for cherry. Dries fast, smells great, coals decently and middle of the road BTUs. Yours looks to be fairly large, as far as cherry goes.

 

Agreed, Black Cherry. Looks a little twisty, but makes decent firewood. I don't pass it up.

 

It's a Cherry like the above posters mentioned.

 

Now I'm going to have to build a smoker.

 

I still like Cherry seasoned two years when burning it in the wood stove.

 

I cooked my thanksgiving turkey over the fire last year and used a mix of black cherry, sugar maple and hickory. Great stuff

 

Instead of tinfoil, try green sassafras. But I think you improvised a little on this.

 

That’s putting it rather kindly. I 100% winged it with whatever I had kicking around that day

 

Without looking at other replies i say cherry. Decent firewood.

 

Did the boys get tired of turning the rotisserie? Looks tasty!

 

If you look closely on the right hand side there’s a couple screws I was wrapping a bungee around to secure the Mickey Mouse rig. I’d rotate it, tie it off, let it go for 20 minutes or so before rotating it again and repeating. It made for a long day. I think next time I’ll prepare way in advance and get an actual spit.

 

How did it come out?

 

Excellent. I think it ended up taking about 6 hours. Constantly tending the fire so keep it hot but not a huge blaze. The outside was crispy and it stayed moist all the way through. I don’t remember how many pounds it weighed.

 

Wood still looks good. The sapwood punks out but the heartwood stays good for a long time. Id get it ASAP.

 

Looks like that could be a pic of my woods. Many of the black cherry trees look just like that. As been mentioned the sap wood punks out but the heart is still great.

 

Cherry makes beautiful lumber as well...

I love it for meat smokin’ too. Firewood is last resort for me w/ this wood.

 

Looks like it already has some rot going on...once the ants get into cherry things go south quick...I won't go out of my way for it personally. And as was mentioned, check things out good, there very well may not be enough solid wood left there to do a safe drop.