Ornamental Cherry

[Derek]

Does ornamental cherry split the same as a fruiting type cherry tree when cut down. I have one in the garden which will be coming down as well as a fruiting cherry

[fuzzyturns]

I'm not an expert, but I would expect it to do the same. Pretty much all of the stoned fruit woods are in the prunus genus, and they all show similar behaviour.

[bodrighywood]

In my experience yes they do.

Pete

[Derek]

Thank you both so cut rough turn and seal, then fingers crossed

[seventhdevil]

it will depend of how the trees have grown and not what species they are.

there is more tendency to split if they were leaning or in a windy area or even a lightly lopsided tree could introduce stress into the timber but sometimes you can get away with it.

do the trunks show twist in the bark?

[Derek]

My garden is well sheltered from the wind as the front of the house gets hit first most of the time. I also have another tree or should that be overgrown bush with some thickish trunks. No obvious twists in the trunk.
I want to dig around the bottom to free the root ball if I can before taking down the main trunk