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[thewoodlands]

milling material. If this Cherry is like the last Cherry leaner I took down it won't be good enough for milling so it will become firewood. The top of this Cherry is hung up in the birch tree which looks like it won't be that bad to take care of.

Looks like this weekend for this tree depending on the weather.



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[SolarAndWood]

Can't lose either way and looks like a nice weekend to do it.

 

[thewoodlands]

Can't lose either way and looks like a nice weekend to do it.

I hope it's a good weekend, I have four Cherry about 75 yards east of this tree that are coming down.


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[SolarAndWood]

Looks good for you, we are looking at white stuff tomorrow. Time to get some wood under a roof.

 

[weatherguy]

Hows cherry rate as firewood? Not just btu's but drying time, rot resistance, splitting, cutting etc..?

 

[thewoodlands]

Hows cherry rate as firewood? Not just btu's but drying time, rot resistance, splitting, cutting etc..?

They say cherry will season quicker but I still like a year stacked, splitting and cutting are very easy. Most of my wood I cut is already down and cherry seems like it can be down on the ground longer then most before rotting.

We burn just over three cord of cherry a year since we have been heating with wood (3 years) and we love it.



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[weatherguy]

Hows cherry rate as firewood? Not just btu's but drying time, rot resistance, splitting, cutting etc..?

They say cherry will season quicker but I still like a year stacked, splitting and cutting are very easy. Most of my wood I cut is already down and cherry seems like it can be down on the ground longer then most before rotting.

We burn just over three cord of cherry a year since we have been heating with wood (3 years) and we love it.



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Thanks for the info, I have a bead on some cherry I may pick up.

 

[CTYank]

Black cherry pros:
Very easy on chainsaw
Smells great outdoors on burning
Air-dries pretty readily
Splits easily in the straight sections of log

Black cherry cons:
So-so energy density
Sapwood rots pretty readily
In stacks, harbors borers near bark, generating dust
Leaves significant amount of char after fire
SOB to split crooked parts of log

 

[smokinj]

STOVE IT!

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Hows cherry rate as firewood? Not just btu's but drying time, rot resistance, splitting, cutting etc..?

I took some 9 year old cherry to Woodstock. You can ask others but there was not one sign of any rot or punk. In fact, Tony (fire_man) did the splitting and he can attest to how hard that wood was.

Splits easy, cuts easy decent btu's.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Black cherry pros:

Black cherry cons:
So-so energy density
Sapwood rots pretty readily
In stacks, harbors borers near bark, generating dust
Leaves significant amount of char after fire
SOB to split crooked parts of log

Your cherry is much different from our cherry.

 

[Woody Stover]

I have a bead on some cherry I may pick up.

It's medium-heat wood, but very nice to split and burn. I found a blown-down Cherry that I split medium-small and stacked at the beginning of June. The bottom was about 28% MC, drier toward the top. I just lit a load a couple of hours ago. I could hear a faint hiss and saw a couple of small damp spots on the ends of the splits after they caught, but it's burning just fine. There's also a delightful aroma downwind from the stack. I would snap up the Cherry, for sure.