My wife Wanda and I are the owners and founders of the Irion Lumber Company. Our lumber company is the outgrowth of a custom furniture business I started in 1977, called Irion Company-Furnituremakers.

My mom recently had all her cherry trees die so I cut them down for wood to smoke meat with, but I kept all the trunks fairly long. I wanted to see if these are even worth keeping around. I can't ...