FBM find. Looked smaller in the pics. Wish I had a 25" bar with me, but the 20" on the 400 got it done. Pretty sure its the largest I've bucked. Tape measure on stump. Awkward location. Luckily I was able to back up to it. Heaping load. All cherry. The pic is not tilted the truck was parked that way. More there...red maple, beech and oak plus some big cherry. Ill be back. Split and filled a half cord rack plus a wheelbarrow of nuggets and normal splits. Surprised to find termites under the bark in one round. Seldom seen IME wooding. They got the torch treatment. So what's the biggest cherry you've ever cut FHC? Most I encounter are smaller diameter.
Haven't seen any termites around here, ever. Warmer overall temps must be allowing them to exist further north.
I've seen a few big cherry trees, haven't cut one that big yet. That is a nice one. Termites are a problem down here, especially on sandy soil. Got some oak and hickory that was cut in May, that the buggers have gotten under the bark. The oak has been processed and I got the hickory off the ground, it will be processed soon. Thanks for the torch tip...
Luckily most of the wood was off the ground and what was touching was on all the chips for the most part. Plus it hadn't aged enough to have more loose bark. Not a fan of working on wood that has sat too long. Thinking she said it was June they were taken down. Torch always in the truck. Not used on the job that often and comes in handy for ants and in this case termites. Sometimes I test how dry the wood is with it too!!!
I took the one on the skid steer a couple years ago to mill a bar top, mantles and slabs. The other's were made into fire wood. The smaller milled slabs were interesting enough to keep and currently strapped and air drying. In the last couple weeks, I've found two more with broke tops. They'll be coming down this year yet, but most likely for firewood.
Awesome score…i love cherry it’s barbecue gold and doesnt take all that long to season…only downfall is it doesn’t take long for it to rot when its dead or on the ground
A year ago at that katsura score I had there was this cherry, but core was rotten and forked into a twin a few feet up. Biggest i've seen but didn't cut it. 42"
Down here the sap wood will rot quick, the heart will get so hard you can't drive a nail in it hardly. I love to find a dead standing cherry.
I've cut a few 22-26" DBH. Got a monster one on our property that is 30-32"DBH iirc. I'm pretty sure our property was logged around 150 years ago as most of Michigan's southern lower peninsula was or we'd maybe have an even bigger one.
