I've never been able to look at a tree and know what it is. I need to learn though cuz I use wood to supplement with coal. I use it mostly at night to help keep the coal burning more thoroughly. Can't wait for Spring!!
You can do it! It just takes practice. If you're not sure, you can always take a picture and share it with someone who knows, and then you'll learn along the way.
It's definitely a beautiful property. I really enjoy living "in the sticks" myself. Plus, you don't have to deal with the noise of horns honking, sirens blaring, people shouting, etc.. The wood is perfect for the fire! Thanks for sharing Chad! 😎🪵🚜
I totally agree! I always enjoy our travels to new areas in the 5th wheel. And I don't mind my traveling for work to different cities and areas. There are lots of beautiful places to see and experience. But as far as where I live- I'm very happy with northwest PA. If I didn't live here - I'd want to live somewhere similar. Thanks for watching.
I burn cherry as much as i can..smells so good ..burns well..always when i have some i put a lil stack aside for christmas n thanksgiving for neighborhood to smell..
It does smell really good. I don't know if we have any neighbors close enough to appreciate it. That's a good idea to burn it for the neighborhood to appreciate! Thanks for watching and commenting.
I like your channel! I'm in north central Ohio, 40 miles from Pennsylvania, have 40 acres, a bunch of wild cherry, and my primary firewood too, for our cabin....
I am new to cherrywood which I am selling. And I actually want to know what people think is better not what wood but what reasons they think that would is better. So I can continue to share that information.
NE Ohio here, standing dead elm, maple, red oak, and poplar. Been heating with wood for close to 30 years. I have so many leaners and down trees, I won’t run out of wood for heat. We have an inside fireplace and an outdoor boiler. We won’t trade the lifestyle either.
Today was a perfect day to look back through the woods and see the downed trees. The snow was sticking to the fallen logs, but not the ground. It's like someone took a highlighter and marked the trees for us so that we could see how much firewood we have available - and how much work we need to do!
6:22 That's a lot of snow that slid off your roof. I'm looking at putting up a 40x60 shop this year. Definitely something I need to take into account even though I don't have the slope that you have away from your shop.
You'll love the big building! We have a basketball court in part of the building - so our sidewalls are 16 feet high - and the peak is about 20' high. So when that snow slides off - it makes a thud for sure.
Yeah, not sure who thinks cherry doesn’t burn well. Huh? I’m thinking they are trying to burn green wood(mabye?🤣). Wild cherry is premium firewood as this channel has stated before. We remove cherry trees regularly, as the wilted leaves are toxic to livestock. No brainer to burn that wood for heat. Saw logs suitable for milling are kept, but the tops? Burn it.
How funny that you appear to have adopted a bit of our British English there, Chad, with your 'in the sticks', when I expect an American English speaker to say 'in the boondocks'. It was one of the many differences between our two versions of English that I learned from Norman Moss' book, 'What's the difference? - an American - British, British - American Dictionary'. I was watching this video primarily because of a new tradition I appear to be starting for Bonfire Night (5th November) where I take some wild chestnuts I have picked with some waste paper and some wild firewood I have collected and dried in my garage to a nearby wood, together with a disused satellite dish, which makes a perfect improvised chestnut-roasting pan and also a hob on which to put pans. Much of the wood I've collected is gean, AKA wild cherry and I've become very aware of its very attractive aroma when burnt. Those cherry trees you were pointing out look to have somewhat different bark from geans, which have a generally shiny, reddish bark with notable horizontal striations, however. By a bizarre coincidence part of the route to that wood and back home is along a road called Cherry Tree Avenue!
Thanks for watching and sharing your story! I spent a few weeks in England when I was 5 - maybe that's where I picked it up. Actually - funny story about that. We went to a restaurant and I asked for tomato soup. The British gentlemen beside our table heard me order and asked my parents, "Is the boy from Pittsburgh?" We always talk about how when I was little, the way I say tomato soup (our western PA dialect) immediately gave away my home. :)
@@PurpleCollarLife You're welcome, Chad! Thanks for this excellent reply, too. I can now see where you might have picked up those 'sticks'! It's strange that you should bring up the subject of restaurants as I touch upon that in the context of this new Bonfire Night tradition of mine at the latest post, as I write, at my Blog on the female Pop music of the Satellite Nations of the former Soviet Bloc, 'Girls Of The Golden East', going back to a time when Chinese restaurants were really quite the latest thing in this country. I hope you enjoy that post, showing that Sunday evening was quite a busy one. For good measure, after I'd got out that post as midnight was approaching, I thought I'd make a Svetla Stoeva-related contribution at 'Fonts In Use', which has just gone live today! A long time before I was mad about those (Mostly) Seventies Songstresses of the Soviet Satellites I was similarly mad about the Art Deco/Streamline Moderne/Coffee Bar Modernist architecture in my home city of Derby and actually designed a couple of virtual tours of the best examples of that architecture, first at 'The Virtual Deco Derby Tour' then at 'Derby Does Curved Corners, Delightful Deco and Magic Modernism', a lot of that originating in my involvement in the campaign to have Charles Herbert Aslin's ground-breaking Art Deco Bus and Coach Station saved and refurbished. The Bus Station Action Group's campaign was not successful, sadly, but a major achievement was to get the host of the 'Art Deco Architecture' site in on our campaign, she being based in Ellicott City, Maryland. It transpired that she had already visited the station while studying at De Montfort University in nearby Leicester and was shocked that such a 'cool' building was under such a threat. I got her to re-visit the station in November 2000 and photographed her posing proudly in front of the building. As a souvenir of that trip over the Atlantic we did a book exchange, my giving her a book on our 'Derbyshire Drawl' and she giving me a book on how to speak Baltimorese, so I'm quite up-to-speed with the idea of different American accents. Would you believe that, when she was still very young, before the family moved to Maryland, they lived in the outskirts of Pittsburgh, so I love any references to that city! What would be a suitably alliterative equivalent of the 'Derbyshire Drawl' - the 'Pittsburgh Patter', perhaps? Oh, I must warn you that those virtual tours no longer exist if you go looking for them but if you're ever in this country again I'd look forward to taking you on a real tour!
Hah... I noticed you have what my arborist friend calls "crap cherry" trees. I still have one on my yard with a bunch of rotten branches 15' and up, I can't wait to get that sucker down at some point and turn it into firewood. Honestly, cutting down trees always kills me a bit, but this cherry is just a problem all the time. Planted a hedge row of hemlock with my brother as a kid, was also glad to see my neighbor eradicate that as well. Just plant some nice firewood species in good places if you're able!
Thanks for watching! I’ve considered planting some additional Red Oak in areas that I know it would do well. The kicker is that it probably benefits the next guy, more than me. :)
@@PurpleCollarLife I was originally into bbq, then planting trees to keep bbq growing, even expanding into the future. I'm all about post oak, mesquite, and orchards!
Hi Jason. Thanks for watching. I've never noticed that the cherry creates any more soot than any other wood. Though - I mostly burn cherry, so I'm not sure if I'd really notice. :) I do notice that the BioBricks (did a video about them a while ago ua-cam.com/video/fhN5mJMsCrE/v-deo.html ) seem to make way less ashes in the bottom of the stove than the cherry wood. I'm not sure if that could mean that they also make less chimney accumulation, but I'd guess so. I do get my chimney cleaned every year or two. I always make sure I'm burning wood below a 18% moisture level though - so that should help prevent build up in the chimney.
Not all wood is useful to use as wood working or lumber. So wood stove or firepit as it can serve a good purpose.. Here in the Pacific NW where I am at Douglas fir is what we have the most of and same issue for me.
It is funny how people comment and have no clue what they are talking about. Anyone saying that Cherry doesn't burn good for heat is a fool. Yes, it isn't White Oak or Black Locust but Cherry is a damn good firewood. When you have a abundance of firewood and it is available to you with little effort and free it is even better.
Thanks for watching and commenting. I've often wondered if there is another type of Cherry - because you're right - the Cherry hardwood we burn does really well. It stays hot and leaves good coals. Not quite as good as Oak, but still better than many other types of wood.
Good day Sir, Hope that you will have a very nice St Valentin Tomorrow ( Is you video is Cherry Pie ( wood ) related 🤣👌) Ok I'm over due for potatoes Pelling duty 🤣👌 Birds drooping are very for good for speeding seeds 👍😉 You are doing an outstanding job of what is call selective cutting Sir 👌👍😉 What I found is by splitting small and very dry cherry is a OUTSTANDING wood 👍👌😉 I was cut under a snow roof fall when I was in my early teens, thank good the farmer get me out of that mess Quick 👌👍 So any sleeping in that new house that you bought ? 😉👌 Keep warm both of you Cheers 👌👍😉🍻 ( bad crab tree,,,, )
Hi Dave - we are all set for Valentine's day tomorrow. We enjoyed some Valentine cupcakes and chocolate covered strawberries during the Superbowl tonight. Cherry does make nice firewood. Glad to hear a farmer was nearby to get you out of the snow fall from the roof!
I agree, you burn what you have. We have mostly pine here but also choke cherry, maple and oak. We burn this in two Jodul stoves, to supplement our ground source heat pump/solar array. Part for heat, part for “cheery fire”. We burn minimal gasoline because pretty much everything we need is powered by electricity. If interested refer to “Five Minutes With Dr. Know” on Global Warming. I look forward to more of your videos!
We have a good mix of Cherry, Maple, and a variety of Oak on our acreage. It seems like the Cherry are the trees that come down in the storms the most often. I'm not sure if it's because they come down easier, or if it's just that we have MORE Cherry than the other species of wood in our forest. Thanks for watching!
Absolutely. We don't harvest any wood just for firewood purposes. In fact, we don't cut any of the trees down. We just use what is provided through wind storms or trees that need to come down to keep from potentially damaging equipment or our house. Great point!
Who are these ding dongs don’t think cherry burns good? Cherry might not burn as long as oak but it’s hotter and makes up in every other way. Cherry be the only thing I burned if I had a choice.
That cherry wood burns terribly and will clog your chimney and catch your pipes on fire within hours of trying to burn it in your stove. I will take it off your hands and dispose of it properly so you don't have to worry about it! I love the shots of the woods. Have any monster trees on your property?
:) You had me there at first. Nothing monster that's good timber value. We lightly timbered the land about 20 years ago. There are some monster trees left - but just the ones that weren't straight enough, had bad spots, or were in an area impossible to get to. It's nice to still have some larger trees in the woods. Thanks for watching!
I've never been able to look at a tree and know what it is. I need to learn though cuz I use wood to supplement with coal. I use it mostly at night to help keep the coal burning more thoroughly. Can't wait for Spring!!
You can do it! It just takes practice. If you're not sure, you can always take a picture and share it with someone who knows, and then you'll learn along the way.
Makes perfect sense Chad. You burn what you have. Enjoy the week out there!
Thanks, Gord. We appreciate you watching.
It's definitely a beautiful property. I really enjoy living "in the sticks" myself. Plus, you don't have to deal with the noise of horns honking, sirens blaring, people shouting, etc.. The wood is perfect for the fire! Thanks for sharing Chad! 😎🪵🚜
I totally agree! I always enjoy our travels to new areas in the 5th wheel. And I don't mind my traveling for work to different cities and areas. There are lots of beautiful places to see and experience. But as far as where I live- I'm very happy with northwest PA. If I didn't live here - I'd want to live somewhere similar. Thanks for watching.
We live in the middle of the woods and love it. Thankful for the woods! Enjoyed the video!
Right on!
Great points Chad. We burn a lot of Cherry. I do prefer Oak, but Cherry is very nice as well.
Thanks!
I burn cherry as much as i can..smells so good ..burns well..always when i have some i put a lil stack aside for christmas n thanksgiving for neighborhood to smell..
It does smell really good. I don't know if we have any neighbors close enough to appreciate it. That's a good idea to burn it for the neighborhood to appreciate! Thanks for watching and commenting.
@@PurpleCollarLife thank you as well sir..from tenn mntns
Beautiful property and great video. Tfs.
Thanks so much
Cherry is damn fine firewood. Your plan is perfect, use what fell and needs to be removed
Thanks for watching!
I like your channel! I'm in north central Ohio, 40 miles from Pennsylvania, have 40 acres, a bunch of wild cherry, and my primary firewood too, for our cabin....
Thanks, Larry!
I am new to cherrywood which I am selling. And I actually want to know what people think is better not what wood but what reasons they think that would is better. So I can continue to share that information.
NE Ohio here, standing dead elm, maple, red oak, and poplar. Been heating with wood for close to 30 years. I have so many leaners and down trees, I won’t run out of wood for heat. We have an inside fireplace and an outdoor boiler. We won’t trade the lifestyle either.
Today was a perfect day to look back through the woods and see the downed trees. The snow was sticking to the fallen logs, but not the ground. It's like someone took a highlighter and marked the trees for us so that we could see how much firewood we have available - and how much work we need to do!
@@PurpleCollarLife that’s a good day, no snow here. Get that chainsaw mix going!
Life long Northeast Ohio resident with family property about twenty minutes from Ohio PA line. Mostly cherry with maple and some oak.
Thanks for watching from just across the line!
I wish we had hardwood like that, Birch, Tamarack and Pine for us. Great job Chad.🏝👍🇨🇦🌴
Thanks 👍
Thats my dream, i would enjoy my time in the peace and quiet.
I love where we live. It's quiet and calm.
6:22 That's a lot of snow that slid off your roof. I'm looking at putting up a 40x60 shop this year. Definitely something I need to take into account even though I don't have the slope that you have away from your shop.
You'll love the big building! We have a basketball court in part of the building - so our sidewalls are 16 feet high - and the peak is about 20' high. So when that snow slides off - it makes a thud for sure.
If you decide to put gutters on your shop, make sure you install ice dams all over. Otherwise that sliding snow will rip the gutters right off.
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WTF are you doing 50 feet up with a 36" bar?!
Chad lots of cherry here on my property as well. I think it’s one of the best firewoods for sure. Take care, Ben.
Thanks, Ben!
Yeah, not sure who thinks cherry doesn’t burn well. Huh? I’m thinking they are trying to burn green wood(mabye?🤣). Wild cherry is premium firewood as this channel has stated before. We remove cherry trees regularly, as the wilted leaves are toxic to livestock. No brainer to burn that wood for heat. Saw logs suitable for milling are kept, but the tops? Burn it.
@@anvilsbane Cherry seasons fast a lot I cut recently was about 23% fresh cut. I love the stuff burns clean and hot.
Your just cleaning up your wood good job
Yes, thanks
Cherry is beautiful firewood it burns great dries fairly fast and smells fantastic. You burn whatever is around you in your area
Thanks!
That makes sense... people that live further north only have pine available and don't seem to have a problem burning pine to heat there homes
Thanks! I believe you should use the resources you have when you can
I get scrap cherry from a wooden bowel factory in my town.I think it burns great, and at $5 per shopping cart full, it’s a win/win.
That sounds like a great buy! I bet it's possible to fit a surprising amount of wood in a shopping cart.
@@PurpleCollarLife the only problem is that I now feel like hoarding firewood…
How funny that you appear to have adopted a bit of our British English there, Chad, with your 'in the sticks', when I expect an American English speaker to say 'in the boondocks'. It was one of the many differences between our two versions of English that I learned from Norman Moss' book, 'What's the difference? - an American - British, British - American Dictionary'.
I was watching this video primarily because of a new tradition I appear to be starting for Bonfire Night (5th November) where I take some wild chestnuts I have picked with some waste paper and some wild firewood I have collected and dried in my garage to a nearby wood, together with a disused satellite dish, which makes a perfect improvised chestnut-roasting pan and also a hob on which to put pans. Much of the wood I've collected is gean, AKA wild cherry and I've become very aware of its very attractive aroma when burnt. Those cherry trees you were pointing out look to have somewhat different bark from geans, which have a generally shiny, reddish bark with notable horizontal striations, however.
By a bizarre coincidence part of the route to that wood and back home is along a road called Cherry Tree Avenue!
Thanks for watching and sharing your story! I spent a few weeks in England when I was 5 - maybe that's where I picked it up. Actually - funny story about that. We went to a restaurant and I asked for tomato soup. The British gentlemen beside our table heard me order and asked my parents, "Is the boy from Pittsburgh?" We always talk about how when I was little, the way I say tomato soup (our western PA dialect) immediately gave away my home. :)
@@PurpleCollarLife You're welcome, Chad! Thanks for this excellent reply, too. I can now see where you might have picked up those 'sticks'!
It's strange that you should bring up the subject of restaurants as I touch upon that in the context of this new Bonfire Night tradition of mine at the latest post, as I write, at my Blog on the female Pop music of the Satellite Nations of the former Soviet Bloc, 'Girls Of The Golden East', going back to a time when Chinese restaurants were really quite the latest thing in this country. I hope you enjoy that post, showing that Sunday evening was quite a busy one. For good measure, after I'd got out that post as midnight was approaching, I thought I'd make a Svetla Stoeva-related contribution at 'Fonts In Use', which has just gone live today!
A long time before I was mad about those (Mostly) Seventies Songstresses of the Soviet Satellites I was similarly mad about the Art Deco/Streamline Moderne/Coffee Bar Modernist architecture in my home city of Derby and actually designed a couple of virtual tours of the best examples of that architecture, first at 'The Virtual Deco Derby Tour' then at 'Derby Does Curved Corners, Delightful Deco and Magic Modernism', a lot of that originating in my involvement in the campaign to have Charles Herbert Aslin's ground-breaking Art Deco Bus and Coach Station saved and refurbished. The Bus Station Action Group's campaign was not successful, sadly, but a major achievement was to get the host of the 'Art Deco Architecture' site in on our campaign, she being based in Ellicott City, Maryland. It transpired that she had already visited the station while studying at De Montfort University in nearby Leicester and was shocked that such a 'cool' building was under such a threat. I got her to re-visit the station in November 2000 and photographed her posing proudly in front of the building.
As a souvenir of that trip over the Atlantic we did a book exchange, my giving her a book on our 'Derbyshire Drawl' and she giving me a book on how to speak Baltimorese, so I'm quite up-to-speed with the idea of different American accents. Would you believe that, when she was still very young, before the family moved to Maryland, they lived in the outskirts of Pittsburgh, so I love any references to that city!
What would be a suitably alliterative equivalent of the 'Derbyshire Drawl' - the 'Pittsburgh Patter', perhaps?
Oh, I must warn you that those virtual tours no longer exist if you go looking for them but if you're ever in this country again I'd look forward to taking you on a real tour!
hi there good show john
Thanks, John!
Thanks for sharing! Nice are both nice to have 😊
I think so too!
Hah... I noticed you have what my arborist friend calls "crap cherry" trees. I still have one on my yard with a bunch of rotten branches 15' and up, I can't wait to get that sucker down at some point and turn it into firewood. Honestly, cutting down trees always kills me a bit, but this cherry is just a problem all the time. Planted a hedge row of hemlock with my brother as a kid, was also glad to see my neighbor eradicate that as well. Just plant some nice firewood species in good places if you're able!
Thanks for watching! I’ve considered planting some additional Red Oak in areas that I know it would do well. The kicker is that it probably benefits the next guy, more than me. :)
@@PurpleCollarLife I was originally into bbq, then planting trees to keep bbq growing, even expanding into the future. I'm all about post oak, mesquite, and orchards!
Do you find that cherry soot's up your pipe? 100% watch
Hi Jason. Thanks for watching. I've never noticed that the cherry creates any more soot than any other wood. Though - I mostly burn cherry, so I'm not sure if I'd really notice. :) I do notice that the BioBricks (did a video about them a while ago ua-cam.com/video/fhN5mJMsCrE/v-deo.html ) seem to make way less ashes in the bottom of the stove than the cherry wood. I'm not sure if that could mean that they also make less chimney accumulation, but I'd guess so.
I do get my chimney cleaned every year or two. I always make sure I'm burning wood below a 18% moisture level though - so that should help prevent build up in the chimney.
Don't let the wood snobs give grief. Cherry and maple are good firewood, just not as great as others.
Thanks, Jeff!
What do you mean as good as oak?What is as good consisting of?
Nice video
Thanks, Sam.
Is the maple hard or soft? Hard maple burns alot beter than soft maple.
We have both - most of what is close to the house is hard Maple. Thanks for watching!
Not all wood is useful to use as wood working or lumber. So wood stove or firepit as it can serve a good purpose..
Here in the Pacific NW where I am at Douglas fir is what we have the most of and same issue for me.
Great point!
Cherry brings top dollar in my area with oak
Good to know! Thanks for watching and commenting.
Hello purple collar life can you please do utv week?
I'll look into it for sure.
@@PurpleCollarLife okay awesome thank you so much Chad I love the videos!
It is funny how people comment and have no clue what they are talking about. Anyone saying that Cherry doesn't burn good for heat is a fool. Yes, it isn't White Oak or Black Locust but Cherry is a damn good firewood. When you have a abundance of firewood and it is available to you with little effort and free it is even better.
Thanks for watching and commenting. I've often wondered if there is another type of Cherry - because you're right - the Cherry hardwood we burn does really well. It stays hot and leaves good coals. Not quite as good as Oak, but still better than many other types of wood.
Good day Sir, Hope that you will have a very nice St Valentin Tomorrow ( Is you video is Cherry Pie ( wood ) related 🤣👌) Ok I'm over due for potatoes Pelling duty 🤣👌 Birds drooping are very for good for speeding seeds 👍😉 You are doing an outstanding job of what is call selective cutting Sir 👌👍😉 What I found is by splitting small and very dry cherry is a OUTSTANDING wood 👍👌😉 I was cut under a snow roof fall when I was in my early teens, thank good the farmer get me out of that mess Quick 👌👍 So any sleeping in that new house that you bought ? 😉👌 Keep warm both of you Cheers 👌👍😉🍻 ( bad crab tree,,,, )
Hi Dave - we are all set for Valentine's day tomorrow. We enjoyed some Valentine cupcakes and chocolate covered strawberries during the Superbowl tonight.
Cherry does make nice firewood. Glad to hear a farmer was nearby to get you out of the snow fall from the roof!
@@PurpleCollarLife 👌😉👍🍻
I agree, you burn what you have. We have mostly pine here but also choke cherry, maple and oak.
We burn this in two Jodul stoves, to supplement our ground source heat pump/solar array. Part for heat, part for “cheery fire”.
We burn minimal gasoline because pretty much everything we need is powered by electricity. If interested refer to “Five Minutes With Dr. Know” on Global Warming.
I look forward to more of your videos!
Thanks!
How does choke cherry burn? About the same as black cherry?
Definitly not the "cherry" i'm used too? these obviously aren't orchard type cherry trees? What are they?
You're correct. This is Cherry hardwood trees, in the forests of Pennsylvania.
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Thanks!
Cannae beat livin' in the Boonies. My Mrs was a West London type....🙄....Not no more!!
#Choppin'....burnin' and eatin'....GOOD TIMES!!
Thanks for watching. I agree - my preference is to live in a rural area, with plenty of land around me.
Saplings.
Very perceptive. You're predicting a future video that we shot just yesterday. Nice work!
Look's like you need to come back in 20 year's to let those trees grow up a little bit. You got some trees to thin out the rest need to grow up some.
Thanks!
Burning cherry right now as I watch this.
We have a good mix of Cherry, Maple, and a variety of Oak on our acreage. It seems like the Cherry are the trees that come down in the storms the most often. I'm not sure if it's because they come down easier, or if it's just that we have MORE Cherry than the other species of wood in our forest. Thanks for watching!
do you realise the lumber price of that cherry if you just gave them some space and years ;)
Absolutely. We don't harvest any wood just for firewood purposes. In fact, we don't cut any of the trees down. We just use what is provided through wind storms or trees that need to come down to keep from potentially damaging equipment or our house. Great point!
Who are these ding dongs don’t think cherry burns good? Cherry might not burn as long as oak but it’s hotter and makes up in every other way. Cherry be the only thing I burned if I had a choice.
Thanks for watching and leaving the comment! I agree that Cherry is great wood to burn.
That cherry wood burns terribly and will clog your chimney and catch your pipes on fire within hours of trying to burn it in your stove. I will take it off your hands and dispose of it properly so you don't have to worry about it! I love the shots of the woods. Have any monster trees on your property?
:) You had me there at first. Nothing monster that's good timber value. We lightly timbered the land about 20 years ago. There are some monster trees left - but just the ones that weren't straight enough, had bad spots, or were in an area impossible to get to. It's nice to still have some larger trees in the woods. Thanks for watching!
Bs. Cherry Burns hot. I burn it.
It burns great! But it doesn’t burn as good as Oak. Thanks for watching.