80 foot cherry tree

[BlackCoffin]

Been clearing up in the creek bed below my house to open it up more and make it a little more visually appealing. Quite a few rotting or broken alder trees littering the hillside and valley. As I was working a hillside checking what time cut down next I noticed the blown over tree that I’ve seen before. Almost growing horizontally up the hill. I always thought it was a black birch tree due to the dark colored smooth bark with raised abrasive rings. It finally dawned on me that small cherry tree I saw on the top of the hill growing from behind some bushes was the tip of that blown down tree. To find a cherry tree of that size was impressive, so cut away and haul it out is what I did! All measured out and with a 5 feet left at the bottom it came out to 79 feet long. In it’s prime I bet it was 85-90 as some of the top limbs are broken off. The base is a little soft but plan on milling some of it into boards or beams.

 

[BlackCoffin]

 

[andy]

I've got a few "wild" cherries mixed in with the alders here too.
A couple of them are pretty big.
When we got the place, there was a firewood pile here that was loaded with Cherry... some nice diameter stuff.
Would have loved to milled some of it.
The ones I have left standing are all around or under 12" at the base.

 

[BlackCoffin]

Talking with an older coworker he told me about some of the old cherry trees planted years ago he saw when he was younger. Great big diameter trunks on the trees and they were massive. It would be nice to find one of those someday.