Huge cherry we just dropped with pics

From the stump pic looks like it was starting to go.

That's a biggy, doubt you'll be taking that out in one piece.

Good stuff.

Wow, that's some cherry! All I ever see around here are much, much smaller.

ya thats a big one. I wouldn't wanna be dropping that with all that punk. It'll be some good btu's for ya though

Regency R14, nice job on the Cherry. How much wood do you think you'll get from it.


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Had a cherry aproximately this size that was dead standing on a golf course. The area it was in was a 20 degree slope which made working with it once down challenging. When I cut it it refused to fall, to the point I had it down to a 2" hinge and wound up taking the middle of the hinge out. (wasn't happy about it but I had no wedges and it certainly wasn't safe to use the loader tractor to push it over wiht that kind of slope. Even with just 6" of hinge on each side (!!) it stood there balancing until my spotter and I pushed it over by hand. Really wish I had a video! When it landed, the crash was loud enough that the superintendent heard it from the opposite end of the course.

Big Cherry's like that are rare around here too but I'm sure the super will be thankful for all that fast-seasoning, decent burning wood since I can't convince him he needs to get 2 years ahead! (the super got most of it 'cause I'm already 2 years out and running out of storage!)

From the looks of it, good thing it's down. Biggest I've had was 20-24", and that was just the trunk about 20' long and straight as an arrow. It was a shame to cut it up for firewood. It was actually in a pile of red and white oak logs that someone was supposed to pick up for his mill, but after a couple of phone calls and not showing up for a month they are now in my backyard in the most perfect stacks I've ever made. And it still smells nice when they get rained on, with the cherry and white oak stacked together :cheese:

RegencyR14 said:

Hey zapny...the tree had two shoots off of one trunk (one 28-30 in diameter & 20-24 in diameter)..it crotched bout three feet up....the smaller one I got about a full cord out. The larger one I have gotten bout 1.5 cord so far (see pic)...i still have the rest of the tree u see in the pics above to buck & split yet.

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That is some nice wood from one tree. We usually burn just over three cord of Cherry per year then when it gets colder we go with the beech & suagr maple for overnight burns.


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That has to be one of the best cherry I've seen. Good that you got it down though. Any ants in the tree?

That is a monster! I was thinking ants too.

RegencyR14 said:

Ton of ants. One of my finish carpenter friends was going to take tree for milling......but after inspecting it was getting soft in quite a lot of areas and had a lot of ants. Quite a site bringing it down and shook the ground pretty good. Took out quite a few smaller trees next to it that i need to take down now. whoooo hooo more wood.

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Seems like the cherry trees around here get pretty infested with ants when they get that big...then the woodpeckers get after them...then you have a pile of junk with sticky sap everywhere.

That one doesn't look too far gone. Will make some nice firewood.

They rarely get that big. Usually ants find it & bring it to an early end....

Very large cherry . . . probably good you grabbed it when you did though based on the look of the wood.