Fall bucking

[Jay106n]

Happy September everyone, firewood season is back! I did some bucking on a large black cherry tree that came down during Hurricane Isais. My 20 inch bar ended up being a bit too short, so a friend let me borrow his 24” to finish the job off.

 

[fbelec]

i love the smell of cherry fresh cut or burnt

 

[Bushels20]

Cherry is great firewood. Seasons quickly relatively speaking and burns hot.

 

[Deets]

I’ve got a few cherry’s that need to come down. Dead standing, should dry pretty quick.

 

[Simonkenton]

I like to burn cherry. It is pretty wood and it smells good.

 

[hickoryhoarder]

I don't just hoard hickory. I actively hoard red oak and black cherry too.

 

[firefighterjake]

Cherry always gets me in trouble . . . my wife seems to always catch me sniffing the rounds or splits . . . pretty sure she thinks I am off my rocker when she catches me sniffing away.

 

[Vikestand]

Thats some mighty fine smoking wood there! Get a fire going and throw a pork butt in there!

 

[tadmaz]

Pretty big stuff. I've tackled stuff several feet wide with an 18" bar. You just have to eat away at it. I had a piece of sugar maple that I had to cut into 6 pieces to eat off 16" of the length. Spent a lot of time on it, but it can be done.

 

[Highbeam]

Definitely can cut more than 20” stems with a 20” bar. It’s only thick in the middle! Go from both sides. I get a lot of logs in the pnw that need to be cut from both sides with my 28” bar. When I start from the second side I really bury the bar into the first cut so that my second cut is on the same plane.

I cut some giant logs with a cheap poulan wild thing this way.

 

[BigJ273]

Cherry is hands down my favorite