Trees I've sawn.

[Dave Shepard]

I often hear of different tree species sawn in different parts of the country. Some I've never even heard of. When I think about building something, I think of what I have available, and don't even consider what ever else might be out there. I take our abundant white pine for granted sometimes. I think it would be fun for everyone to post what they have sawn, and especially their location. I'm sure there will be a ton of trees I've never heard of from South America, and NZ, Australia, etc. Don't be bashful, if you've sawn up a sumac, I want to hear about it, and maybe a little backstory. :D I'll start if off, and add to it as I saw new trees.


Western Massachusetts

Ash, white and green
Aspen, ??
Basswood
Birch, black, white
Black cherry
Butternut
Cottonwood
Elm, American ??
Hemlock, eastern
Hickory, pignut
Locust, black
Maple, sugar and red
Oak, red, white, black, and chestnut
Pine, white, red


Dave
Spruce, white

[WDH]

Central Georgia

Apple
Osage orange
Sycamore
Red Maple
Black Walnut
Black Cherry
Chinaberry
Hickory
Pecan
Red Oak
White Oak
Slippery Elm
Winged elm
Sugarberry
Eastern Red Cedar
Yellow Poplar
Loblolly Pine
Shortleaf Pine
Sweetgum
Post oak
Persimmon

[Left Coast Chris]

Northern California

English Walnut
Claro Black Walnut
Pecan
Pistachio
Coastal Redwood
Manzinita
Apple
Plumb
Cherry
Silver Maple
Valley White Oak
Grey (Digger) Pine
White Fir
Western Red Cedar
Dawn Redwood
Olive
Apricot
Raywood Ash
Cottonwood
Hickory
Pondorosa Pine

[Tom]

North East Florida, South East Georgia
but ranging to the Fla. Panhandle and Lake Okeechobee area.
Of interest, It's as much "who" I've sawed for as what.  Some of the trees had
historical value.


Cabbage palm
American holly

oak (water, laurel, turkey,blackjack,bluejack,swamp chestnut white, white, liveoak, southern red oak, post oak)

Loblolly bay
sweetbay
sweetgum
redbay
blackgum
SYP (Longleaf,Loblolly,slash)
Pond pine
Sand pine
dogwood
short leaf pine
blue beech
river birch
magnolia grandiflora
cypress (Bald/pond)
basswood
sycamore
yellow poplar
tulip poplar
a hard red wooded tree from Perth Australia
Hickory
pecan
black cherry
black walnut
black willow
pear
cotton wood
redbud
Mimosa
camphor
melaleuca
catalpa
persimmon
eastern red cedar
southern red cedar
norfolk Island pine
cherry laurel
torreya
Paulownia
elm
red maple
chinese tallow
mulberry
Australian pine
china berry
green ash

[Firebass]

Pacific Northwest Trees I've Sawn

Douglas Fir
Western Red Cedar
Red Alder
Ponderosa Pine
Quaking Aspen
Dog Wood
Broad Leaf Maple
Hemlock
White Fir


I would guess you could get in to some real exotic wood in the urban areas.  I believe these are all native to the northwest...?   

[WildDog]

New South Wales Australia


Ironbark(narrow and broad leaf)
Stringybark(yellow and red)
White Box
Brown Box
Yellow Box
Apple Gum

I hope to do the following:
Camphor Laurel
Red Gum
Blue Gum
Tallow Wood

[Daren]

Central Illinois

Maple: silver, red, sugar
Oak: reds, whites of different types
Elm: Siberian, American
Hickory: some species I don't know  :
Hackberry
Black locust
Black walnut
Honeylocust
Pine: white, red
Apple
Osage orange
Red Mulberry
Black cherry
Cottonwood
Pecan
Eastern redbud
Sycamore
Eastern red cedar
White ash
Sweet gum

I'm sure I forgot a few, but that would be the bulk of it.

[Chuck White]

Northern New York
Trees I've sawn are:

Ash, White
Balsam
Basswood
Birch, Yellow
Butternut
Cedar, Red
Cedar, White
Cherry, Black
Hemlock, Eastern
Hickory
HopHornbeam (AKA Iron Wood & Hard Hack)
Locust, Black
Maple, Soft
Maple, Sugar
Oak, Red
Oak, White
Pine, Red
Pine, White
Pine, Scotch
Poplar
Spruce, White
Tamarack (American Larch)
Walnut

[Larry]

Sasafras
Sarvis
Dogwood
Redbud
Honey locust
Black locust
Hickory
Red oak
White oak
Walnut
Ironwood
Osage orange
Hackberry
Maple
Sycamore
Basswood
Autumn olive
Russian olive
Catalpa
White mulberry
Red mulberry
Mimosa
Ash
Cherry
Willow
Persimmon
Kentucky coffee tree
Elm
Cottonwood
Sweetgum
ERC
Scotch pine
White pine

Trees on my wanta saw list
Holly
Yellowwood
Ozark chinkapin
Loblolly pine
SYP

I started a project a few years ago to take pictures of every species I open up on the sawmill.  Wish I had started it the first day I got my mill.

[SwampDonkey]

I have not sawed personally but have had the following sawed.

White pine
yellow birch
black cherry
butternut
sugar maple
basswood
American white elm
white ash

[Timburr]

England / Wales.

Ash-European
Oak-English & sessile
Beech
Sweet chestnut
Sycamore-European
Field maple
Elm-English & wych
Yew
Apple-crab & orchard
Plum
Cherry
Blackthorn
Hawthorn
Rowan
Holly
Lilac
Alder
Hazel
Birch-silver
Linden or lime
Hybrid poplar
Willow (why?)
Western hemlock
Japanese red cedar
Western red cedar
Wellingtonia
Douglas fir
Grand fir
Lawson cypress
Spruce-sitka & Norway
Pine-Scots, Corsican, maritime & lodgepole
Larch-European & hybrid

The UK only has a few indigenous tree species, since the ice age severed the land link from Europe.   90% of the logs I saw are exotics, mainly from the PNW of US.

Trees I NEED to saw are London plane, English walnut and the true cedars (Atlas and Lebonon), just to satisfy my curiosity.  ;D

[woody1]

An ole sawyer was in the other day. He said the strangest thing he ever sawed was a large grape vine. Anyone here ever sawed one ?

[Ron Wenrich]

South Central Pennsylvania

Oaks:
     Red
     Black
     Scarlet
     Chestnut
     White
     Pin
     Swamp white

Maples:
     Red
     Silver
     Sugar
     Norway

Cherry:
     Black
     Sweet

Hickory:
     Shagbark
     Mockernut
     Pignut

Walnut:
     Black
     English

Pine:
     White
     Virginia
     Scotch
     Pitch

Tulip Poplar
Ash
Aspen
Basswood
Hemlock
Sycamore
Black Locust
Honeylocust
Osage Orange
Elm
Larch
White Cedar
Willow
Beech
Black Birch
Black Gum
Eastern red cedar
Catalpa
Norway spruce
Sassafras
Tree of Heaven

I've seen more than I've sawn.   :D

[Daren]

Trees on my wanta saw list
Holly

That's on my list too. To be honest my wanna saw list is bigger than my have sawn list 

[Dave Shepard]

An ole sawyer was in the other day. He said the strangest thing he ever sawed was a large grape vine. Anyone here ever sawed one ?

I know someone who sawed one up for firewood. Don't know how well it split. :D

Lot's of trees I haven't seen, or even heard of.

Tom, I think you are in the lead. :D


Dave

[SwampDonkey]

You laugh, but I've seen a sawed up stag horn sumac. The wood was like butternut, light weight and porous. An old timer built jewelery boxes from it.

Anyone sawed striped maple? They do grow 8-10 inches. I've seen a few 8's here, none bigger. Heck, if they can saw up 4" spruce and fir........  :

[Jeff]

Michigan Northern Floida and Southern Wisconsin

Cottonwood
Balm-of-Gilead (Balsam Poplar)
Yellow Poplar
Quaking Aspen
Big Tooth Aspen
Hybrid Poplar

Northern Red Oak
White Oak
Bur Oak
Black Oak

Sycamore
Pin Oak
Black Walnut
Butternut
Bitternut Hickory

White Ash
Green Ash
Black Ash

Red Maple (soft maple)
Sugar Maple (hard maple)
Norway Maple
Silver Maple
Box Elder
Sumac (for turkey call strikers)

Black Cherry
Pin Cherry
Basswood
Paper Birch
Yellow Birch
American Beech
American Elm
Weeping Willow
Slippery Elm
Hackberry

American Hornbeam
Hop Hornbeam
apple
Balsam Fir
Red Pine
Jack Pine
White Pine
White spruce
Black Spruce
Norway spruce
Hemlock
Tamarack
Northern White cedar

Eastern Red Cedar
Cypress
Southern Yellow Pine. ( I dont know which one, Tom might remember)
Water Oak

Redwood

Sycamore
Tulip Poplar
Black Gum

[Cedarman]

Unique species,
Brazilian rosewood,
Kingwood,  dry, (concrete saws easier)
Lignum vitae,
Ashe juniper,
grape vine  ( it was about 6" and just for fun)
salt impregnated cypress from pickle vats
hornbeam,
redbud
dogwood
kentucky coffee tree
catalpa,
ailanthus,
persimmon
river birch
silver popple (same as big tooth aspen?)
more common,
oak, red, white, chestnut, burr, pin, chinquapin
ash,
honey locust,
black locust,
hackberry,
cherry,
apple,
poplar,
pine, white, red, loblolly, virginia
sweet gum
black gum,
elm, american, red
mulberry,
osage orange
beech,
basswood
walnut,
butternut,
hickory,
maple, sugar, red, silver
sassafras,
western red cedar
eastern red cedar (about forgot that one)
northern white cedar
sycamore

[cut2size]

Western Virginia and West Virginia
Oak (Black, red. chesnut, white and post)
Hickory (shagbark and others)
Pine (white and SYP)
Larch
Douglas Fir
Red spruce
Walnut
Cherry
Box Elder
Maple (Sugar, silver and red)
Sassifrass
Cedar (red and white)
Poplar (white and yellow)
Lind
Basswood
Elm ( Water and red)
Hemlock
Black Locust
Mulberry
Apple
Dogwood
Chesnut
Butternut
Ash
And I have used grapevines for firewood many times.
David

[cantcutter]

Central Kentucky:

Black walnut
Cherry
White Oak
Red Oak
Blk Oak
Pin Oak
Bur Oak
Red Cedar
Poplar
White Pine
Hemlock
Spruce
200 year old American Chestnut

[Chuck White]

I think I might start saving a (maybe 1X4) sample of each type of wood that I saw on my mill.

Then I can mark it and stick it on the wall in my garage, where I plan on storing my mill when I'm not sawing.

[Jeff]

I think thats a pretty cool idea.  You might want to even make a square for here.  ;D

https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,18953.0.html

[flip]

Southwest Indiana

red oak
white oak
pin oak (of the stinky oak genus) ;)
black oak
chestnut oak
walnut
cherry
poplar
black gum
hard maple
soft maple (red)
ERC
elm
chinese elm
ash
paulownia
hack berry
sassy-frass
catalpa
spark bark (shagbark) hickory
mocker nut hickory
pignut hickory
cypress
persimmion (couldn't reach the fruit so had to get it closer to the ground)
locust
cucumber magnolia

[clarkjlouis]

If you are from the south you have to include.

Laurel oak
Live oak
Cedar
Red oak
Sycamore
Black Walnut
Pecan

[Dodgy Loner]

WDH, don't forget to add winged elm to your list.  It's currently functioning as my workbench.

I have had the following trees sawn into lumber (a few I sawed myself on a borrowed mill):

Apple
Birch, river
Cedar, Eastern Red
Cherry, black
Elm, winged
Maple, red
Oak, water
Oak, white
Pine, loblolly
Sugarberry
Sycamore
Walnut, black

I also have an extensive wood sample collection; there are probably more than 100 species that I have collected wood samples from.  Some of these were taken from the lumber I milled, but most of them were processed with a table saw, a jointer and a planer from firewood or other randomly collected wood.  I cut all of my wood samples into 3" x 6" x 1/2" blocks.