That's beautiful. Bark looks like cherry, but the wood looks a little lighter than most of the cherries ive cut. BTW, I had a few in my yard a bit bigger than that.
Black cherry James. fresh split it has a distinct smell.
I love the cherry aroma too!'
The best cherry I've ever laid my hands on, came out of my own woodlot. The wind blew it over and I cut it out and then milled it into the BEST cherry lumber I've ever seen!
That tree had three logs in it, and the bottom log was 20' 6" long! and here it is going on my BSM,
That's some beautiful lumber right there!
When I opened it up, I could see right away, it was something special!
making "mostly" clear 5/4 lumber,
and LOT'S of it!
Ya gotta love nice wide clear cherry lumber!
There's NO way I'm going to waste any cherry logs by burning them!
SR
Na definitely black cherry. Have tons of it at farm. Red oak smells like fresh throw up.
Well, yes, but..... James Miller didn't describe the smell. Also, there sure is a lot of oak trees around the fallen log. Also the bark, the dead spot near the top, and the color of the heart are those of red oak.
Yes black oak I can't tell by picture.
At $7 per bd ft from a hardwood sawmill, try to compute what all of this cherry that you show here would command. Maybe this forum could give you an estimation.Above I posted picts of loading and milling this blk. cherry log,
and I mentioned that the tree it came from, had three logs in it and here's the next log that tree produced, it's 8' 6" long,
So I got started by opening it up and turning it, to see what I had,
and it didn't disappoint!
and where there were defects, it made for some nice figure!
I ended up with a pretty good tally of 5/4 lumber on this log too!
So, now it's time to go get that third log I mentioned, milled too!
SR
I'd love to have the set-up and equipment that you have there Rob, but I'll never afford all that. I can only be happy with my little house and property. I do have a few nice millable trees on it that need to come down. Two of them are Red Oaks and one is a large White Pine. But with no friends owning mills, I may just have to use them for firewood.Above I posted picts of loading and milling this blk. cherry log,
and I mentioned that the tree it came from, had three logs in it and here's the next log that tree produced, it's 8' 6" long,
So I got started by opening it up and turning it, to see what I had,
and it didn't disappoint!
and where there were defects, it made for some nice figure!
I ended up with a pretty good tally of 5/4 lumber on this log too!
So, now it's time to go get that third log I mentioned, milled too!
SR
Using a similar but simpler milling device, I worked with a friend this past October to mill up 8/4 red elm from a 24" dia. fallen tree. It still had some moisture and he's drying it. Not sure how it will turn out, but it only took him about two hours to mill 10 pieces from a 9' log. I was impressed at how well the saw worked -- in his case a Makita 6421 with a 32" bar. He has a big drum sander for final surface finishing. Red elm, of course is not in the same class as cherry, but I've seen some of his work, and it is rather impressive.
