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I have them all around also, but they rarely get bigger than my middle finger before something gets them or they die for some reason. Tent caterpillars LOVE them.
I've got some pretty big ones around here, i have been cutting nothing but cherry for two weeks now. Got rounds about 14-18 inches at the butt of the biggest trees. i will send some pics later, i figure with all the cherries i have around the house i can burn at least 3 years on nothing but cherry. also i wont have to mess with my big hardwoods which is a plus, cherry burns good also.
I've got some pretty big ones around here, i have been cutting nothing but cherry for two weeks now. Got rounds about 14-18 inches at the butt of the biggest trees. i will send some pics later, i figure with all the cherries i have around the house i can burn at least 3 years on nothing but cherry. also i wont have to mess with my big hardwoods which is a plus, cherry burns good also.
Last big cherry I cut down was three winters ago.....it was 33" diameter at the base, around 60' tall and dead........dropped it, bucked it up and used it in the maple syrup evaporator a month later!!
cherry is similar to ash as far as heat output, but it DOES coal-up faster. In the shoulder season, that can be a good thing. It smells FANTASTIC when burning, too. Save some splits for cooking on the firepit!
Yeah I had a couple that popped and squealed. It scared the crap out of my wife! LOL. It seems like the more noise they make the more I feel like I accomplished
Be careful where you body is in relation to the round if you hear the splitter starting to strain. The splits can shoot out sideways with tremendous force when the pressure builds up. Don't learn like I did, by taking a shot to the tibia when splitting vertical.
We'll have to subtract points on the second set of pics for blurriness, but not as many points as for no pics at all.
You can earn those points back by posting better bark, split and end-grain pics so we can ID the non-Cherry woods you have there.
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