Firewood thread!!! Let's see what you got!!!!

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I had set those two stems aside from the firewood pile in order to do just that. The top was blown out of that cherry and rot got into the stem. I thought I could get an 8' sawlog out of it but, alas, when I cut into it there was rot all the way down. You can see white in the visible cracks, that is fungus. It would not have been worth the effort. Trust me, I love black cherry lumber. Much of the trim in my house is black cherry I milled from these woods.

Now that you mention it, I can see those cracks. However, they probably wouldn’t have kept me from trying to mill it anyway.