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He claims they are straight
He claims they are straight without limbs coming off them, came from a home site
Make sure it's black cherry and not a choke cherry.
Aha! Choke cherries get to be about 14" or so around here in central michigan and they can be sawn for lumber. I've cut 'em and sold them. I don't know, maybe they were the biggest ones ever recorded and i just didn't know, but tis true! This is why i can tell you the lumber is almost impossible to tell apart. I've got them on my property at about 8" right now, but i've sawn bigger ones. They are a more scrubby tree than black cherry, but no i'm not mistaking them for any birches. I've just saying the plates wrap around the tree paper like, instead of black cherry that have little flaky bark. They look like a fruit tree bark or ornamental cherries you see planted around homes. As far as giving people prices, i'm starting to suspect that people are having me drive out to look at their trees b/c they are planning on making a deal with someone else and they don't care about wasting my day looking at them. Contractors of all types get this kind of treatment. I don't know how to ask ahead of time if they really are intending on selling me the logs. THis is happening more and more recently. Homeowners love to pull this one.KP
In that case it's invasive and only native to the Prairies as i recall. Same with burr oak, not listed here, but I can go to the woods and put my bare hands on wild burr oak trees.
If you run your tongue across a fresh cut surface you should taste a hint of bitter almond.
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