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Omaha419

Burning Hunk
Jul 19, 2015
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Falling Waters, WV
Bought some property in the eastern panhandle of WV. A majority of the trees look like this:

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Not sure what they are.

Thanks (again) in advance.
 
Black Cherry is a nice middle of the road hardwood. Reasonably dense, reasonably quick to season, reasonably easy to split.
 
If there are any large black cherry the timber value can be very good.
 
Black Cherry is a nice middle of the road hardwood. Reasonably dense, reasonably quick to season, reasonably easy to split.

. . . and wicked nice smelling. I can never split black cherry without stopping at least a couple of times to stop and sniff that sweet smelling wood.
 
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