I cannot tell a lie

I took down this scraggly, sweet cherry tree today. Limbed, bucked into 8' logs and skidded it to the road. Selling it to a local BBQ restaurant owner.

 

Nice work. I bet you could plop a brisket down on that stump and it would taste delicious.

 

Picts of the end product. Customer wanted 8' logs, the biggest was 19"

 

Did ya' save these big ones for yourself?

 

Yep. You got that right.

 

Woodpeckers / sapsuckers did a number on this one. I'd say the whole upper 1/3 of the tree looked like this.

 

I can almost smell it.. mmmm, cherry.

 

I think that’s pecker wood!

 

Cherry pecker

 

If you used one of these, To cut that tree up, then it would be a Black and Decker pecker tree wrecker.

 

What's the difference? Looks like the cherry trees we have down here. Makes small black cherries...

 

Good job there GW.

 

Did the BBQ want only sweet cherry or would he have taken black cherry as well... .? We don't have much sweet cherry around here.

I wouldn't think it makes much difference for BBQ?

All this assumes he's using it for BBQ and not for something else like table benches or interior live edge siding?

 

BBQ want any type of fruit tree. Lots of apple orchards around here so he gets a pretty steady supply from them.

Prunus avium = sweet cherry, European cherry, etc., indigenous to Europe but plenty of them now in the new world, vs. Prunus serotina = black cherry, indigenous to the new world. Easiest way to tell them apart is the shiny bark on the sweet cherry, even when it is mature vs. the scaly bark on mature black cherry. I have a small black cherry to take down for him. I'll post comparison picts later.

 

Here's the bark from a black cherry for comparison. Very "scaly."