The smell of spruce sawdust

[lyle niemi]

and a hot cup of coffee first thing in the morning makes a good start for the day!! 8)

[drobertson]

You betcha!  have a good day!

[bandmiller2]

White pine[pinus strobus]is not too shabby ether,cut it real green and you can feel the mist off the saw.Do you have white pine out your way lyle.? Should be a better winter for you this year out of the snow rain and wind. Frank C.

[GDinMaine]

Just got done sawing some Tamarack (Larch) yesterday.  The trees were felled about a week ago and smelled absolutely wonderful. It was a bit of a citrus hint mixed with the smell of pitch.  I have no pictures but also has some very nice grain.  Sawed about 20 logs into timber and framing lumber.  I wish that job lasted longer.

[JustinW_NZ]

Macrocarpa (Monterey cypress) is up there on the "must smell" list its spicy smell is just a pleasure.

Cheers
Justin

[Ianab]

Macrocarpa (Monterey cypress) is up there on the "must smell" list its spicy smell is just a pleasure.

Cheers
Justin

100% agree on that one.  ;D Nothing quite like it, and haven't met anyone that doesn't like the smell.

Ian

[m wood]

Lyle, so far about 99% of what I have sawed is Spruce.  Love it and we never get tired of smelling those boards.
mark

[Chuck White]

Agreed, the smell of sawdust in the morning.  Aaaahhhhh.

[barbender]

A friend thinks that sawn Tamarack smells like Fruit Loops There, I turned things to food ;D

[SPD748]

Now, if only I could find a tree that smells like grits with bacon... 

-lee

[Chuck White]

A friend thinks that sawn Tamarack smells like Fruit Loops There, I turned things to food ;D

I think that fresh Tamarack smells like "Cloverene salve", I remember way back, my mom would mailorder it out of a catalog!

Very pleasant smell!

[barbender]

Chuck, I don't know anything about "cloverene salve", but there is a plant near me in Cohassett, MN that processes tamarack for it's essential oils, they use it in a few products. I'm not even sure what all they make with it. I think they make health food supplements with it, for one thing. Maybe that "Cloverene salve" had a little tamarack juice in it ;)

[Chuck White]

Interesting, hmmm!