I need to take down a sick old weeping cherry tree. Rotted branches are falling off and the trunk split and thick sap was oozing out. Is the wood valuable to woodworkers if it is any good? Is it good in the stove?
Weeping Cherry wood
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Ctwoodtick
Minister of Fire
I've burned allot of black cherry. This is an ornamental tree. They call it a weeping cherry because it has blossoms like cherry blossoms.
Ctwoodtick
Minister of Fire
Is it a yellowy color with fairly dark bark? If so, Is have some of it stacked that I picked up from the dump this summer. It felt like decent wood when I was processing it, for whatever it's worth.
Weeping cherry is an ornamental tree. It's a grafted tree. The main trunk is usually like sweet cherry or another ornamental cherry stock, then they graft the weeping cherry to that. In my experience it's normally not as good as black cherry. But btu's are btu's especially if it's in your yard
Paulywalnut
Minister of Fire
It's more yellow than cherry color. I had a 3 year old stack I burned this year. It burned great like regular black cherry.
CheapBassTurd
Minister of Fire
That's one gnarly nasty tree. This one's gonna make you sweat.
Still, it's got some easy to process sections.
From what I've read over the last year many of the stovers here like the stuff, tho.
Still, it's got some easy to process sections.
From what I've read over the last year many of the stovers here like the stuff, tho.
I took it down today. Maybe a 1/5 cord. Wood is similar to Black Cherry and Apple. Definitely some disease. 
husky345 vermont resolute
Feeling the Heat
That's some nice looking wood there tommy [emoji1303]
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The tree that grew from the stump won't be a weeping tree. It will be a standard cherry
No doubt. I've got the top of the trunk where all the branches were. That is one knarly piece of wood. I also noticed that the lower sucker branches seemed to be different than the weeping part.
