Have a little bit of this wood. Its far too wet to even think about it remotely. Cut some a couple months ago and forgot about it. Its really dense, no real smell to it. There are separate pictures but im showing as the bark changes in texture the thicker the logs get. I don't have much here but there is a long piece I pulled out for a later cut and stack that is likely part of the top end of the tree. All look to be same species. When I got the tree fresh, it was a pretty gray white bark, now faded to a brown but you can see some still. Came from a landscaping pile I picked through last summer so Im wondering if this is a tree id see like middle of the median in a city or nice neighborhood. Any other questions let me know!
I would say cherry, but there would be a nice smell to that wood. Those look like lenticels in your pic of the bark, which narrows it down, but not sure exactly.
My first thought was Cherry but the bark looks kind of like Locust. Did you see any thorns from Hades? If not its probably Cherry but Im not an expert ID guy.
Some locust is thornless but Im leaning a little towards cherry but the bark cups more like locust. Also the outer edge ring of the log is usually yellowish with cherry. So Im torn.
Must be a different species of cherry because cherry bark seems to peel when gets dry this doesn't look to do that.
The bark on that pic is mature so it will look like hard corn flakes. I have some branch pieces that are less mature and the bark is spot on. Its midnight here in the Lou so I can dig them out tomorrow. I'll post a pic of a round the splits came from in a few.
Same round turned on its side with immature bark. Also a side note!! I didn't get much odor from these splits either.
It does but weighs nothing like pine. Ive had this almost 9 months and that would be almost fine to put in a pit if it were. Its so dense @ Horkn I haven't spit something this dense before since Pacific Madrone. Now THATS a nice wood to burn. Some source said it was up at 30.9 BTU's. Not sure how close that is but parents have confirmed it. They lived up in the San Juan's just near Canada and they had a stove where their house was, dad loaded some in one night, oh they were in for a surprise. They said the thing glowed so much, They didn't sleep a wink. One thing I can say about this wood is that there weren't large rounds. The one I took a picture of earlier on the top was about the biggest around in the truckload i picked out from. Now not doubting MO. Wood's expertise but I cut that cherry off the top of a tree that fell down. The rest of it was a done deal since it hit the ground. Ive cut other cherry just like that bark. The tree was about 30-40 feet at least so it couldnt have been immature unless it just tried growing and never really bore fruit being squeezed in the woods I had cut it out of. I might have to regroup...check the other cherry trees my dad has. I appreciate your inputs all of you.
