Your favorite...

[Okrafarmer]

This has probably been asked before, but let's lighten the mood and dream a little bit here.

Let's suppose that all the pressure is off, your mill is working really well, and you have the chance, just for fun, to mill a log. It is a nice straight 24" diameter log of a suitable length, and you can mill it up any which way you like. Of all the species that grow within ten miles of your house, what would be your favorite one to mill? And then, you can put your second and third favorites, too.

Note: If there aren't many trees within ten miles of your house, you can extend it out to 50 miles.

Me:
1. Holly
2. Walnut
3. Ambrosia Red Maple

[mikeb1079]

1.  black cherry
2.  walnut
3.  red cedar

[Okrafarmer]

black cherry and red cedar are also in my top 10!  8)

[Chuck White]

I'd love to saw the following if they were 24".

Black Locust

Yellow Birch

Red Cedar

[WDH]

Black walnut (The King of wood)
Black Cherry (The Queen of wood)
Maple (Hard or soft)

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

1. POPLAR
2. RED CEDAR
3. SYCAMORE

[red oaks lumber]

1) white ash
2) basswood
3) white oak
4) white pine

[Okrafarmer]

1. POPLAR
2. RED CEDAR
3. SYCAMORE

Do you quartersaw your sycamore, David, or just go right through it? I agree it is a beautiful wood. I know where there is a nice 4' diameter log at our log yard we go to that they haven't been able to sell for a little while.

[Okrafarmer]

I'd love to saw the following if they were 24".

Black Locust

Yellow Birch

Red Cedar

I must say I'm surprised somebody likes to mill black locust. It is a very useful wood, though. I have a couple logs I'm not going to use.

[caveman]

1. Cypress
2  Black Cherry
3. Southern Red Cedar

[paul case]

1 ERC
2 Southern red oak
3 Sycamore

[Magicman]

1.  SYP has to be first because that is where my $$$ are made.
2.  Black Walnut simply because it is Black Walnut and it makes folks happy.
3.  I probably should list Eastern Red Cedar because I saw so much, but sawing it is only a job to me.

[5quarter]

24" dbh right? You said I could dream a bit...

1) Apple
2) Peach
3) Honeylocust

Three of my favorite cabinet woods.

[Okrafarmer]

24" dbh right? You said I could dream a bit...

1) Apple
2) Peach
3) Honeylocust

Three of my favorite cabinet woods.

I've never done peach, but I could get some from the orchards near here. Do you have any pictures? Does it resemble cherry at all? They are related.

[pyrocasto]

1. Apple
2. Blue stain pine.
3. Walnut.

[Okrafarmer]

Hey, you're just up the road from me.  8)

[tyb525]

1. Honeylocust
2. Cherry
3. Quilted/birdseye Hard Maple

[Meadows Miller]

Australia  ;D
#1 Red Ironbark  #2 Red Gum  #3 Stringy Bark ;)

America  ;D ;D 8) 8)
#1 Southern Yellow Pine #2 Any Oak #3 Cypress Pine  ;) ;D ;D 8)

[Okrafarmer]

Meadows, I actually helped to saw up some wood in Victoria-- it was mainly sheoke, I think, though maybe some other things too. It was firewood, though, not lumber!  :D :D :D :D :D
Oh, by the way, I can't help enjoying how the Aussies name their trees after the kind of bark it has!  8) 8) 8)

[Meadows Miller]

Sheoaks a bloody nice timber to saw too it makes good furniture timber  ;) ;D never cut a hell off alot of it though only afew logs here n there but there are a good number of plantations of it planted atm just gotta wait  ;)

Im upto over 150 species off trees now I was keeping a book with how they sawed and how they came out and any adjustments I needed to do to the saw to mill them but that got lost along the way (thrown out)  :( :( :( >:(

Yeah its reasonaby easy to identify trees here  ;) barstard box is one off the hardest woods to saw i have ever come across its an apt name too Mate  ;) :D :D :D :D :D

[mad murdock]

Coastal Douglas Fir
Western Red Cedar
Pacific Madrone

I love doug fir! WRC though not near as aerobatic as ERC, it's still a cedar and an awesome wood. Madrone-I just want to mill some cause it is such a curious wood.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Do you quartersaw your sycamore, David, or just go right through it?
[/quote] from Okrafarmer



Yes I do quarter saw sycamore. I usually don't even mess with a Sycamore log unless it is at least 28 inches.
That snake skin look after quarter sawing is INCREDIBLE.

[terrifictimbersllc]

1) Yellow poplar
2) Hemlock
3) Walnut

[texbob]

Realy haven't sawn that many different kind of trees but I like the ones that are a bit controversial.
1: Sweet Gum
2: Hackberry
3: Eastern Red Cedar

[Okrafarmer]

I like controversial ones too. I have not yet but would like to try Sassafrass, Butternut, Hackberry, Sourwood, Magnolia, Eucalyptus, River Birch, Beech, and Deodar Cedar. All of which grow around here, or nearby. I have tried holly and Chinese Chestnut, and would like to do more of both, with better logs than I've had so far.