Cherry right??

[BigJ273]

The only reason I ask is because this stuff is straight, super easy to cut and split. Most of the cherry I see around here is knotty and really tough to split. This smells like cherry for sure tho. Just weird.

 

[David.Ervin]

Sure looks like cherry from where I sit.

 

[Gearhead660]

What does a fresh split smell like? Looks like Cherry....

 

[BigJ273]

What does a fresh split smell like? Looks like Cherry....

Smells like cherry

 

[gzecc]

Looks wet but could be black birch.

 

[BigJ273]

Looks wet but could be black birch.

Looks nothing like black birch

 

[mcdougy]

That's cherry. I will guess it was a uprooted tree as well?

 

[mark cline]

You could be right about the uprooted tree. I have a lot of cherry that sprouted off of a cut cherry tree about 20 yrs ago. We call them stump shoots or stump cherry , they grow fast because they are using the huge root system . The problem is they grow so fast and tall they fall over easy from a wet snow or wind. The bark looks like a cross of cherry and birch sort of.

 

[Stinkpickle]

We get the occasional tall, straight black cherry tree around here, so I’m not surprised.

 

[Woody Stover]

Yessir, that is sopping wet Cherry.

 

[BigJ273]

Yessir, that is sopping wet Cherry.

Yea, pretty wet here yesterday. But couldn’t pass it up. Had to grab it in the rain.

 

[Simonkenton]

I have seen several guys saying that cherry is easy to split.
I got hold of a truck load of cherry one time, from a tree surgeon. That stuff was very hard to split.

 

[spudman99]

Some cherry trees in the area are ornamental, such as the flowering cherry I cut down last year. Limbs curve and have many branches so harder to split. Still counts as cherry wood and was just about 100% of what I burned from Nov-Jan of this year. Worked well and seasoned over 1 long summer when split and stacked.

 

[tadmaz]

In my experience, black cherry has been straight grained.

 

[Woodsplitter67]

its cherry.. i get alot of cherry. I see twisted grain straight grain. I depends on the tree. i get some that just pops apart and some thats a little tough

 

[Woodspliter]

I got into some cherry wood last year, it's great wood can get slimy processing the fresh stuff

 

[hickoryhoarder]

Native black cherry from the woods splits super easy (except for twisted portions, of course). It's what I use with neighbors who want to learn how to split with my maul. It rewards any beginner who hits it gently in the center.

I use a lot of cherry, on purpose. It makes beautiful fires when combined with oak and hickory. (It needs their heat.) Your photos look like cherry. By itself, there's a reason it's used for barbecuing -- it can smoke when not hot enough.

 

[ohlongarm]

100% cherry

 

[Sodbuster]

After dead Ash, Cherry is my go to wood source, seasons in a year or less.

 

[Dix]

Yep, it's Cherry !!

My second fave firewood, after maple.

One thing I've learned with Cherry .... adding a not totally seasoned split to a coal bed to start an over night... bark down, all the way

 

[KJamesJR]

Cherry.

All my Cherry grows straight as an arrow. Easy to cut and drys real fast. Still burns like crud though! Sparks too.

 

[weatherguy]

Cherry does season quick, smells nice but leaves a lot of ash, didnt like it with my BK because it would leave a lot of wood covered with ash and stall my combustor, dont have that problem with the PH so should probably forgive its past sins