Is it Cherry?

[CentaurG2]

and back when they were buying timber around here, that was ~30 dollar log....

Hey, I am not a timber grader or a logger and I don’t know your local market. On the occasion that we get a veneer or #1 saw log, we deal with a distribution site for a larger lumber outfit. You can drop off one log or 1000 logs, day or night. They grade the wood and send you a check. Simple as that. Now if you tell me that you can only get 30 bucks for a 20ft veneer black cherry log, in your area then that’s what it will bring. In my area, both cherry and oak used to fetch excellent money and we almost never see cherry logs that are even close to veneer or even #1. I Know people with band mills that would have bent over backward for that log but if it is as worthless as you say, pump it into firewood.

 

[bigjake]

You know i am not any pro at wood at all.But everybody that sees a big
oak cherry or some hardwood always has to tell me how much its worth.
and im a ******* for cutting it up. and then i look around and see thousands
of them and think wow everybody is a million dollars and dont realize it.

I know people who let loggers into there property and never got near that.

But hey i got saws and big hard wood im in the money im in the money.opcorn:

 

[Hansenj11]

I will have to post pictures. I have a 12 peace of cherry. 22 inch from the one side of the park to the other and then a 23 foot pice that may be worth something. I did not want to mess with it it has quite a large hole in the center from ants but i do not think it is that far in. I was also amazed when somone had told me cherry was so expensive. I cant really find any mills in the Chester County, PA Area

 

[slinger]

Pennsylvania Cherry is the top choice for many furniture makers.

4 bucks plus a board foot 'round here (retail)

 

[excess650]

Sorry for another what is this thread, just trying to get an idea of what is what. I appreciate all the help.

I would have milled that myself!

 

[J.W Younger]

The limbs seem to allways be falling off cherry trees, many as i cut wonder ani't been bonked in the head. Don't know about the price but I burn about 3 cord a year on average. About a 3rd of my stack is cherry or about 5 cord of 15-16.

 

[fishercat]

i'd like to know who you are selling to.

according to your figures i could have retired on what i have cut into firewood.i can't find anyone around here to buy or mill.

amazing how many guys have mills and let them sit.we beg and they won't budge.guess drinking beer is more profitable.

 

[beerman6]

eh,A timber guy came thru my place,wanted 23 trees and the quote was less than 3 grand,at least 3 cherry trees in that bunch.

If I remember right it worked out to $113 per tree.I'll burn it for that price.

 

[outdoorlivin247]

I have been trying to buy an 11 acre parcel for about three years that the owner say is a certified tree farm and has $25000 worth of trees on it...He wants, I repeat WANTS, $100,000 for it...I told him to sell the trees and I would give him $50,000 for it...He has contacted several tree buyers and has never had an offer for more than $3000 for the good trees...It has hundreds of mature Maples, Red and White Oaks as well as many nice Cherry trees in the bottom...

About five years ago a buyer took 93 trees off of my FIL property and the bank got a big old check for $10,595...Yahoo...

 

[blackdiesel]

Hey, I am not a timber grader or a logger and I don’t know your local market. On the occasion that we get a veneer or #1 saw log, we deal with a distribution site for a larger lumber outfit. You can drop off one log or 1000 logs, day or night. They grade the wood and send you a check. Simple as that. Now if you tell me that you can only get 30 bucks for a 20ft veneer black cherry log, in your area then that’s what it will bring. In my area, both cherry and oak used to fetch excellent money and we almost never see cherry logs that are even close to veneer or even #1. I Know people with band mills that would have bent over backward for that log but if it is as worthless as you say, pump it into firewood.

wow, i need to start truckin some logs!

 

[Joshlaugh]

I like to burn cherry too. Splits easily and smells good.

Cherry trees around me tend not to get really big in the woods, like less than 20 dbh. They are considered a pioneer species and will initially do really well but over the long run get out competed for sun light etc by oaks, hickories and maples. I see a lot of them drop lower branches trying to keep their crown growing higher for the sunlight. We do get some pretty big ones(I know of a couple near me that are more than 35 dbh) but I think they are the exception and not the rule. Plus I don't believe they are really a long lived species of tree like say an oak or hickory either.

 

[Brian VT]

I love to split cherry w/ the maul, about as easy of wood to split as any...

Really ? I'm a newb and I cut down a black cherry and an ash on my lot. The ash my 11 yr. old daughter could split. The cherry, well my 8lb. maul and all my might was bouncing off the large rounds. I also tried the Fiskars to no avail.
Maybe it was dead for a while ? No rot or punk anywhere. I'm not even sure it was dead now that I read here about dead branches being common. I'm hoping later this summer it'll split easier.

 

[dingeryote]

Really ? I'm a newb and I cut down a black cherry and an ash on my lot. The ash my 11 yr. old daughter could split. The cherry, well my 8lb. maul and all my might was bouncing off the large rounds. I also tried the Fiskars to no avail.
Maybe it was dead for a while ? No rot or punk anywhere. I'm not even sure it was dead now that I read here about dead branches being common. I'm hoping later this summer it'll split easier.

Brian,

????? Have ya tried to split it recently in the cold?

It ain't ash, but should split similar to Red Oak. Not too tough normally.

I Believe ya, just wondering what kind of experiments the Military did in your area back in the 50's..

AS for bieng dead, Cherry goes all snotty under the bark QUICK if it's on the ground, and seems to get punky pretty quick if standing.

Stay safe!
Dingeryote

 

[indiansprings]

When cutting wild cherry in the spring/summer you want to be careful there is no livestock around. Cattle and horses can die from eating the wilted leaves, they are very toxic. We eliminate every cherry tree that sprouts on our places due to that fact. The wood goes up in smoke.

 

[Brian VT]

Brian,
Have ya tried to split it recently in the cold?

I cut it just after Thanksgiving and tried to split that same day. I ended up just stacking the rounds and went looking for ash or maple. I later read that cherry doesn't have a ton of BTUs either so I figured I'd ignore the rest of them.
Maybe a logger will trade my larger cherry trees for his firewood logs ?

 

[excess650]

I cut it just after Thanksgiving and tried to split that same day. I ended up just stacking the rounds and went looking for ash or maple. I later read that cherry doesn't have a ton of BTUs either so I figured I'd ignore the rest of them.
Maybe a logger will trade my larger cherry trees for his firewood logs ?

I read the same about cherry not making a lot of heat, but had a small one that needed to be cut. I split it and it dried pretty quickly, and I found that it burns rather nicely. If you split it green in warm weather, the bees will be a buzzin'...If I had it available, I would use it.

I also have some oak, black locust, a little maple, and lots of tulip poplar. The tulip poplar gets a bad rap, but the bigger it is, the more dense it seems to be, and firewood split from the big rounds is definitely better than small logs of similar size.

Now that I bought an Alaskan Mill, I'm apt to mill what I perceive as "good stuff" rather than just cut firewood. The milled wood is mostly for my own use.

 

[Ductape]

Ok here is another question, This tree was still standing no limbs or branches for probably twenty foot, the tree looked healthy but what limbs and branches it did have were pretty well dead? Did it just have some sort of disease or borer get to it?

Around here, the gypsy moths have killed off alot of the Black Cherry....... two in my yard. They eat all the leaves off of them and they never have a chance to recover.

 

[woodbooga]

Around here, the gypsy moths have killed off alot of the Black Cherry....... two in my yard. They eat all the leaves off of them and they never have a chance to recover.

Are you thinking of the gypsy moth infestation of the early eighties or the omnipresent tent catapillars that do their thing late summer into pre-foliage season?

I'm pretty certain they're different species and the foresters I've talked to have said that they don't pose a serious threat.

That said, I've noticed an uptick in their activity over the past couple years. Seen a few cherries even small ashes completely enshrouded in silk.

And in spite of what I was told, I manually removed them from my apple trees.

 

[Ductape]

If what defoliated my black cherries are tent caterpillars, and something different than gypsie moth caterpillars..... i apologize if misspoke. They appear to be the same, or at least similar. They made nests,or webs in the cherry trees around here in early summer, and devoured every inch of foliage on the trees. They poop all over my wife's car and really make a mess. I would say there were many thousands, if not tens of thousands of them in one of my cherry tree. I tried some big-box store insecticide with poor results. I'll post a pic of one of the winter worn nests....... maybe you can tell me exactly what they are? Literally, there wasn't a cherry anywhere around here that had a single shred of a leaf on it by mid summer.

 

[BlackCatBone]

I have no clue about saw logs, but if you were to slice it up in 8" long rounds and chunk it up into baseball size pieces, that is extremely high $$ BBQ wood. A 20# bag of seasoned cherry can be bought for 15$ or so in the local butcher shops, of course cherry is tough to find around these parts.

You could always saw it into boards, and let the outsides/bard dry until the bark falls off and sell that in bags to smokers.