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Oak Cherry
« on: April 12, 2003, 08:22:53 am »
I had promised earlier to post some pics of the oak and cherry trees growing from a common stump I found on my property. With a bit of luck the pics will appear below.  The first two are of the trees from the sunny side.  The third is from the shaded side and shows the scars left by the loggers as they used the cherry bole to turn trees.  Sure wished they would have picked another tree.  This is the biggest reason I have decided to harvest my own trees in the future. :( ??? ::) :P :) ;) :D ;D



In case it is not clear the cherry is on the right in the top two pics and on the left in the bottom pick.
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Re: Oak Cherry
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2003, 12:08:30 pm »
That's neat!

I'd be almost tempted to make a sign and stake it by the tree telling what it is and why it's interesting.  That would blow the mind of someone walking through the woods. :D
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Re: Oak Cherry
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2007, 03:51:25 pm »
When I was thinning the plantation this fall I found a couple of fir fusing together at about 4 feet above ground. I cut one off the stump and pulled it away and the cambiums were beginning to graft together They were young trees, but would have been interesting to see them 20 years from now.

Some interesting things in nature, maybe I'm too interested. ;D

Pre-commercial thinning pays off. :)

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Re: Oak Cherry
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2007, 11:12:39 pm »
They always saw that opposites attract  :)

Is that logging damage recent?
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Re: Oak Cherry
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2007, 11:59:16 pm »
They always saw that opposites attract  :)

Is that logging damage recent?

It was in 2003 when this thread was started.  ;D

SD is dredging up old threads. I think he has cabin fever already.  ::)
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Re: Oak Cherry
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2007, 12:50:33 am »
So, how are the featured pair doing?  Are they still a couple?
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Re: Oak Cherry
« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2007, 12:51:55 am »
Gonna be a loooooooooong winter eh SD! :D

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Re: Oak Cherry
« Reply #7 on: November 29, 2007, 06:10:04 am »
 ::) Yup, 5 more months.

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Re: Oak Cherry
« Reply #8 on: November 29, 2007, 09:27:54 am »
They are still a couple.  The cherry is deteriorating at an ever increasing rate.  Every time I go by these trees I think 'of all the trees to skin, he would have to hit this one'  >:(

The trees are still a topic of conversation whenever a group tours the woods. 
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Re: Oak Cherry
« Reply #9 on: November 29, 2007, 12:12:43 pm »
personally i would use the cherry for coffee tables before it wasted away, being as how you already have photos of them.
i know where a couple red oaks are that were the nicest ones in the woods before the boneheads drug the logs by them with the skidder. now they will just be lumber.

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Re: Oak Cherry
« Reply #10 on: November 29, 2007, 01:10:09 pm »
The cherry is deteriorating at an ever increasing rate. 

That is what I was worried about  :).
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Re: Oak Cherry
« Reply #11 on: November 30, 2007, 01:30:26 pm »
I will harvest this cherry when I am ready to harvest enough of the others for a kiln load.  It is not going to deteriorate that fast.  I still have a year or so before I lose much more of it.
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Re: Oak Cherry
« Reply #12 on: March 27, 2008, 11:22:30 pm »
i must say  that is something i've never seen before   at least not here in Pennsylvania in my area.

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Re: Oak Cherry
« Reply #13 on: March 28, 2008, 02:12:09 am »
OWW, that is a cool pic! I wonder if they are fused together enough to saw out a figured choak crotch slab? :D


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Re: Oak Cherry
« Reply #14 on: March 28, 2008, 07:32:44 am »
It would be the only Choak crotch slab in circulation, I bet ;D.
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Re: Oak Cherry
« Reply #15 on: March 28, 2008, 11:36:33 pm »
 :D :D OWW could tour all the state fairs and charge $5 a person to see it.


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Re: Oak Cherry
« Reply #16 on: March 28, 2008, 11:55:18 pm »
thank you Dave  glad to be here 

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Re: Oak Cherry
« Reply #17 on: April 08, 2008, 06:17:55 pm »
are there many different types of cherry like there is oak? and what are these two? very interesting stuff. thx andy

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Re: Oak Cherry
« Reply #18 on: April 09, 2008, 09:10:57 am »
The only cherry in my woods is black cherry.  The oak is a black oak.  I have white, chestnut, northern red, scarlet, and black oaks in the woods. 

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Re: Oak Cherry
« Reply #19 on: April 09, 2008, 11:16:24 am »
We have black and pin up here that are tree sized, both wild and native trees.

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Re: Oak Cherry
« Reply #20 on: April 09, 2008, 05:45:33 pm »
 One With Oaks .....  ;D  and choaks  :D
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Re: Oak Cherry
« Reply #21 on: April 09, 2008, 06:06:50 pm »
 :D :D :D

That is good, Marcel ;D.
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