Favorite wood to saw ?

SCSawyer · January 01, 2009, 09:02:31 PM

That is about all we have in our area if you like something else let us know. but thats about all we saw here.[Mines poplar]

Don_Papenburg · January 01, 2009, 09:23:42 PM

I like walnut for the smell and working it in the shop also . Another fave is catalpa .

Tom Sawyer · January 01, 2009, 09:43:17 PM

It is too hard to pick just one! I like cutting different wood for different reasons. One of my favourites (not on the list) is white ash.

Tom

Corley5 · January 01, 2009, 09:48:15 PM

White Pine

Jerry · January 01, 2009, 10:05:39 PM

I realy like to saw cypress but I also like to saw cedar it is such a pretty wood.

sawman · January 01, 2009, 10:20:38 PM

Cedar gets my vote, I like the aroma, and what little of it that I get to saw, it seems to saw easily.

Tom · January 01, 2009, 10:24:14 PM

QuoteHello guys just wondering what was your favorite wood to saw? please if its not on the list tell us any way

Who is us?

SYP and cypress

Cedarman · January 01, 2009, 10:29:27 PM

I am in the pink when I saw cedar 8) 8) 8)

pigman · January 01, 2009, 10:52:20 PM

When sawing for others I like to saw tulip poplar. The logs saw easy and usually are large with very little tapor. When sawing for my own use I like cherry.

I noticed that of the first 15 votes no one picked hickory. I wonder why. :D

pasbuild · January 01, 2009, 10:54:29 PM

My fav is figured wood, don't matter what flavor.

WDH · January 01, 2009, 11:26:08 PM

Walnut is my favorite because it is so beautiful and I like smell.

beerguy · January 01, 2009, 11:39:54 PM

Big leaf Maple.

Chuck White · January 01, 2009, 11:42:16 PM

I voted pine. White Pine is my favorite pine unless someone comes up with some 20-24 inch Red Pine.

I'd much rather saw Balsam. A couple years ago my FIL and I sawed some 30-36 inch balsam for a customer. It was really nice looking stuff. Around here we don't see much Balsam that size.

Chuck

Ron Wenrich · January 02, 2009, 07:22:12 AM

I get my best production in tulip poplar. The logs are bigger, usually of pretty good grade, and I can get wider boards. The logs do move more than many people think.

If all the stars line up pretty well, I can cut hickory just as quick as I can any dense hardwood. Red oak saws a little quicker than white oak, but with current markets, oak is going mainly into ties. We saw a good deal of 22' long switch ties, so that can be more challenging than the other logs.

Worst sawing wood is black locust, due to the density and log size. I cut them mainly into a 4x4 post.

Best smelling is black birch. Best figured can be the big uglies in soft maple.

bandmiller2 · January 02, 2009, 07:56:09 AM

I'am an old metal worker I like oak its half way between wood and steel,just seems special to me.Frank C.

thecfarm · January 02, 2009, 08:04:45 AM

Why the voting time so short?
I choose hemlock because that's the most I have sawed.Have done some pine,but have not done much building with it.

Meadows Miller · January 02, 2009, 08:49:05 AM

Gday

For Production Radiata Pine sleepers/ties ;D ;D

For production and return Cypress Pine posts beams building timber and boards /
house lots ;D ;D ;D

For the love of it sawing local Red Ironbark but i dont cut as much as i would like to these days :

:( :'(

And I just love the smell of all three when its fresh sawn ;D ;D ;D

Chris

ErikC · January 02, 2009, 11:24:02 AM

I voted pine, around here it is sugar pine I like best, It smells good and cuts easy.Ponderosa pine is next. Doug fir is another one I like to cut, but doesn't smell as good as pine or cut quite as easily.

backwoods sawyer · January 02, 2009, 10:57:38 PM

The Cedar family, it don't much matter the variety, Red cedar, Port Orford cedar, Yellow cedar, Incense cedar, Redwood, Sequoya. They all cut good.

Dave Shepard · January 02, 2009, 11:14:11 PM

I like white pine. Cherry also is nice to saw. I don't care for black locust, hate the dust, and it moves a bit much for happy sawing. Well, for a perfectionist anyway. :

Jeff · January 03, 2009, 12:21:46 AM

Quote from: thecfarm on January 02, 2009, 08:04:45 AM
Why the voting time so short?

He probably didn't realize he did that. I changed it to indefinite.

I always loved to saw Cherry. I loved the way Cherry looks when you first open up the log. Its color then changes within moments from the first glimpse and you know that you were the only one that got to see it that way.

Banjo picker · January 03, 2009, 12:32:08 AM

I believe sweetgum would get a few more votes if they were split open instead of just made ties out of. Tim

Ianab · January 03, 2009, 04:00:15 AM

My favourite is Monterey Cypress. It's a Nth American species, but not used as a timber species there. Here the trees grow HUGE, 3 - 6 FT dia. Wood quality is variable, but when you get a good log you can just slice board after board of fantastic timber off it with the swingmill.

It's easy to dry, durable, smells great and is generally just a nice wood.

Ian

BTW, my LEAST favourite tree to fell is a big old Wolf Cypress. Big, leaning, widowmakers - all the fun stuff. ;D

DWM II · January 03, 2009, 06:21:34 AM

I voted for pine because thats what i get my best production out of, but I agree with banjo picker-Ive sawed some trim and posts out of sweet gum and it always gets alot of attention from visitors.

pigman · January 03, 2009, 06:45:14 AM

I wish the person that voted hickory their favorite to saw would confess ;). I think it is a beautiful wood and can be sawn as Ron said, but I never thought anyone would say it was their favorite wood to saw. :