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I will be climbing what I believe to be the State Champ here in RI very soon... It's approx. 30" X 70'H X 70'CS. I'll post some pics. This one's healthy as a horse as well.

-Tom

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Is that the one in a backyard on Grotto, over on the east side?
 
Definitely Prunus serotina. 40 foot clear log, I'm drooling! I have visions of two plank dining tables among other fine hand crafted furniture along with a cheery cherry fire warming the house. Cherry is my favorite wood for both uses. An oil finish on it and the peice will change colors for ever, getting a richer luster as the years pass. Definitely awesome specimens. Good luck on the cling, the bark tends to give you little cuts very easily, almost as bad as Kentucky Coffee Tree, only not quite.
 
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Is that the one in a backyard on Grotto, over on the east side?

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Nope, it's in Craaaaanston, in a historical cemetery near Pawtuxet.

-Tom
 
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,,,, correct the bark is furrowed .... American Black Cherry does not have such bark

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well it's obvious how scales / plates compare to furrows ...

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Ooooooo my, who of thonk a tree house guy would have ever been wrong.!!!! I'd of thunk it 99.9% of the time. Still want to ban a guy that knows 3 times more than you altissimus, I mean shoot you know sooooo much more than me. To not be able to call out a wild black cherry when you see one. You the man toughy.


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I will be climbing what I believe to be the State Champ here in RI very soon... It's approx. 30" X 70'H X 70'CS. I'll post some pics. This one's healthy as a horse as well.

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are you serious, that's the champ?!

We just cut a dead lightning struck one down much bigger than that.

about 32" DBH, 95 ft tall, but I guess only 45 ft wide crown.
 
and that first picture of this thread looks like every black cherry I've ever known as far as bark texture.

I don't know how anyone that knows black cherry would not recognize it.
 
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I don't know how anyone that knows black cherry would not recognize it.


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Me thinks he is a LA boy myself, and he keeps pickin at a man that'll just make him look just soooo sutpid. luv ya buchy????????
 
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We just cut a dead lightning struck one down much bigger than that.

about 32" DBH, 95 ft tall, but I guess only 45 ft wide crown.

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Must have been good salvage value out of the corpse.
 
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I will be climbing what I believe to be the State Champ here in RI very soon... It's approx. 30" X 70'H X 70'CS. I'll post some pics. This one's healthy as a horse as well.

-Tom

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are you serious, that's the champ?!

We just cut a dead lightning struck one down much bigger than that.

about 32" DBH, 95 ft tall, but I guess only 45 ft wide crown.

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This tree is frickin huge... I didn't want to exxagerate the size, it may be a bit bigger. I'll get good measurements when I work on it. I've never seen one this wide before, with such a developed crown.

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We just cut a dead lightning struck one down much bigger than that.

about 32" DBH, 95 ft tall, but I guess only 45 ft wide crown.

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Must have been good salvage value out of the corpse.

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We'll see Guy.

but cherry just like everything else is really down.

A friend has a large black cherry woods.

She was in need of money to put another daughter through college.

So, I asked my sawmill/logging friend to check into cherry prices last winter for her; because she thought about logging the woods.

He asked the Italian buyers that pay the best for cherry, they said they weren't even buying.

He advised her not to harvest at this time, it wouldn't bring any more than any mixed hardwood.

I did take these cherry logs to a buyer. We'll see what I get back. The butt log did have some decay, but the others looked good. Very little tapper.
 
Oh, blame MattyD for not having film of this big tree felled. I didn't even think of it making a good film, but he did and didn't bring it up. My camera and tripod was in the pickup too.

He didn't bring it up until the tree hit and he said that it was awesome and great sound, wish we could have recorded that and that he thought of recording it before the felling, but figured we probably didn't have a camera even though he saw the tripod. Matt!!!

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