What Kind Of Tree Is This?

[Gabe Ayers]

Definitely Wild Black Cherry. Over mature in that it is declining and rotting from the inside out. As several commented there is probably good usable wood on the outside portions of the log. Worth sawing and saving on stickers for drying to a stable commodity.

Here is another one, what kind of wood is this? Oops the species may be on the link description…close your eyes when you click on it….just kidding, that sounds like a cool aid story…ha! Just kidding, it is black locust decking….

[Phil]

I’ve always wondered what sort of toll planing locust took on the equipment.

[lancek]

ok what kind of wood is this, This is what I am baseing my opinan on;) lancek

[Carl Russell]

Looks a lot like black cherry on the left, and white ash on the right, to me.

[Plowboy]

I agree with Carl. Glad to know I absorbed something from the tree ID course i took about 15 yrs ago.

[Traveling Woodsman]

@Carl Russell 12426 wrote:

Looks a lot like black cherry on the left, and white ash on the right, to me.

Ditto…..

[lancek]

Boys thats black locast here in mo I did the same thing when I cutt it down till I looked at the leaves [ There was to much over story to tell while it was still standing ] the other tree is white ash ! Now if you put the picks up of biglugs tree the bark and sap line look the same its not until ;)you look at the limbs that you can tell its cherry!;)

[Phil]

Another vote for Black Cherry and White Ash.

[lancek]

Let me ask you this when was the last time you seen cherry trees with thorns on them?

[ArtieT]

For many years I have worked as a log buyer and scaler for a hardwood sawmill – scaling millions of board feet per year. Black Cherry on the left, White ash on the right.

[Phil]

lancek;12434 wrote:

Let me ask you this when was the last time you seen cherry trees with thorns on them?

I’m not sure we’re looking at the same picture, I can’t see any thorns.

[lancek]

heres my back ground two years forestry degree 34 years logging and buying timber for indiana hardwoods,coldwater veener, maple ridge hardwoods, frank miller lumber, I have allso take courses in lumber gradeing and lumber idenification from purdue unversity ! The top of this tree had lobe leaves with 8 leaves per segment short thorns on the stems no thorhs for the frist 16 feet of the trunk ! Now tell me its cherry!! I will be sawing this material up for lumber so I will generate a pic that you can full screen and see the grain patteren to give you and exact deffenition of the wood!

[Carl Russell]

Before you slice that baby up, I would love to see a close up of the end grain of that log. If I could see the pore structure, late/early wood in the growth rings that would help me a lot. Otherwise, nice mystery!!!

Carl

[horsefollower]

i had the same situation with a log like that i thought it was cherry and i took it to the mill, it looked like a great grade log! but the buyer said it was black locust….. i told him when he saws it up to let me see it, sure enough!

[lancek]

HEy Carl
Heres the cross section of that black locast Lancek

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