Cut a pickup load of mostly cherry, with a little ash and elm mixed in. Also cut some big rounds of one that was laying dead but up off the ground, no bark. Has a yellow cast like black locust but I'm sure it's not that, possibly some mulberry. Couple pictures up close, it has some purple in it as you can see.
Nice work! The top round in the third picture looks similar to the barkless mulberry I snagged. Mine had a deeper yellow tint though.
Wow! I would have milled that cherry into lumber if there wasn't significant reaction wood (pith in the center of the log?). However, it will make Awesome fire wood.
For sure that cherry looks great. That's about the size they get around here. Most don't grow very straight either.
I am not sure what it is, I know it's not silver maple. It could be poplar like Lukem said but this particular area I haven't see much poplar. This was pushed to the location it was in with the dozer, I believe and that would have been 3 years ago I think is when we dropped a lot of old fence rows. I got about 8 or 10 rounds of it.
It's not that heavy, but neither was the few standing dead ash rounds. It's not light as a feather though
Dead debarked locust was my first thought but if it cut as fast or faster than the cherry then poplar it might be with that color to it.
Then its not mullberry...even when dry its pretty heavy..tulip has a yellowish wood..if you split it its actually very pretty..green and purple streaks..
