What have we got here?

[all night moe]

I second stoveliker on this one.

 

[MRD1985]

I’ll take it if that’s the case then. I like it more than maple. I’ll take all the limbs but that trunk looks terrible to split by hand. Always have the saw…but still lol

A lot of wood there

 

[bigealta]

The first 3 of the recent pics could be cherry. Those other pics are hard to see for me..

 

[bigealta]

Cherry can be easy or hard to split. The twisted wood is not fun to hand split.

I always have my maul with me when cutting or grabbing rounds. Will always bust a few apart to make sure i'm bringing the good stuff home.

 

[bigealta]

If you get the chance, i have mostly cut and hand split on site before loading in the crv, and found it works much better than loading rounds and splitting at home. I know u can't always do it but if you get the chance try it. It's a time, energy, space, and mess saver.

Works especially well with heavy and easy to split Oak.

 

[MRD1985]

If you get the chance, i have mostly cut and hand split on site before loading in the crv, and found it works much better than loading rounds and splitting at home. I know u can't always do it but if you get the chance try it. It's a time, energy, space, and mess saver.

Works especially well with heavy and easy to split Oak.

I usually do this, but was severely time restricted and didn’t start until 330pm yesterday and ran out of light. Today Had both my 7 and 5 year old boys with me this am…you can guess how that went!

 

[MRD1985]

Cherry can be easy or hard to split. The twisted wood is not fun to hand split.

I always have my maul with me when cutting or grabbing rounds. Will always bust a few apart to make sure i'm bringing the good stuff home.

The cherry im used to is wild cherry, not this stuff. Wild cherry can be a bear to split once it starts to season or is seasoned. Green hasn’t been bad.

 

[MRD1985]

The first 3 of the recent pics could be cherry. Those other pics are hard to see for me..

Click on them to zoom, makes it clearer. For some reason a little blurry in some pictures once uploaded. Not blurry at all on my phone

 

[Woody Stover]

If a tree is from someone's yard, it could be anything. We just split some from my BIL's yard, where the former owner worked on the grounds crew at a university.
Looking at the bark, I thought maybe Hickory, but it split easy, not stringy at all. The split wood and end cut didn't look familiar either. So we're guessing it was a cultivar that the former owner brought home and planted. There are several other unique flowering trees scattered around the yard.

 

[MRD1985]

If a tree is from someone's yard, it could be anything. We just split some from my BIL's yard, where the former owner worked on the grounds crew at a university.
Looking at the bark, I thought maybe Hickory, but it split easy, not stringy at all. The split wood and end cut didn't look familiar either. So we're guessing it was a cultivar that the former owner brought home and planted. There are several other unique flowering trees scattered around the yard.

I was in the same boat, it’s unfamiliar to me also. Doesn’t smell like the cherry im used to either. But there are at least a few people here that are confident it’s cherry.

 

[all night moe]

Looking at the bark, I thought maybe Hickory, but it split easy, not stringy at all.

I have some pignut hickory here at home. Besides the crotches and unions, it's a straight grain delight. Especially compared to shagbark. The pignut popped apart with my Fiskaris X27 like red oak.

 

[Dieselhead]

I was in the same boat, it’s unfamiliar to me also. Doesn’t smell like the cherry im used to either. But there are at least a few people here that are confident it’s cherry.

I don’t get a lot of cherry but what little I have processed looks like what you have posted pictures of in your stove and foyer. I was almost on the hickory train but that bark is way off. I’d be interested to see how the splits darken up after sitting for a while.

 

[MRD1985]

I don’t get a lot of cherry but what little I have processed looks like what you have posted pictures of in your stove and foyer. I was almost on the hickory train but that bark is way off. I’d be interested to see how the splits darken up after sitting for a while.

That is also the cherry I am used to, in addition to wild cherry. This is different than I am used to I’ll be sure to post back if it darkens up or changes color at all. Based on my Hickory experience, this is definitely not Hickory.

 

[stoveliker]

To me this looks much like the splits below. Colors of the insight slightly lighter below because of the lighting - the colors in your pic (as it appears on my screens) are exactly like the cherry here.

Bark a bit lighter but I've seen that depend a lot on tree age and (N/S - sun) orientation. I think this one had vines growing up to it? That'll make the bark darker too.

Also the wavy grain I've seen in cherry, and pink-ish layer under the bark in your splits (only visible in the bottom left in the pic below with the inside visible).

Then again, I don't know all trees, so maybe another type can be a cherry-impostor...

 

[all night moe]

To clarify, I am not on the hickory train....at all. Unless its in my wood pile. I hoard that stuff when I can. LOL

My post was merely commenting to Woody Stover's.