Trees I've sawn.

amberwood · September 26, 2009, 06:17:30 PM

grey ironbark
red ironbard
spotted gum
redgum
london plane
english oak
White Oak
jakerandah
NZ beech
Pine-radiata
Pine-canary isle
Messmate
Mountain Ash
Vic Ash
Jarrah
Atlantic cedar
Himalayan(incense) cedar
Cypress, macracarpa
English elm
tas blackwood
Vic Blackwood
Huon Pine
Southern Mahogany
Silky Oak(grevillia Robusta)
redwood

tyb525 · September 26, 2009, 07:51:27 PM

I have some butternut too, but this looked nothing like it. It had smooth gray/light gray bark. The wood was a light yellow and soft. I haven't planed any to see how it really looks.

SwampDonkey · September 26, 2009, 08:26:15 PM

You won't get the color of butternut, but the grain and hardness seem similar to staghorn.

tyb525 · September 26, 2009, 08:27:19 PM

I'll plane a board tomorrow if I get the chance and take a picture.

Dave Shepard · November 23, 2009, 07:11:47 PM

Western Massachusetts

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

I added black walnut. Sawed two biggish logs today. Made a pile of 2x8's. Two feet by eight feet, that is. :D Customer wanted all flitch sawn, but was too wide, so I did what I could. Also added ERC, as I sawed one of those this summer. :

campy · November 25, 2009, 08:49:28 PM

A neighbor just gave me a Pistache Tree...

http://www.arborday.org/trees/treeGuide/treeDetail.cfm?ID=112

Dave Shepard · January 19, 2010, 06:17:35 PM

Western Massachusetts

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

Been sawing tulip this week. That's a first for me. I really like sawing it. I also really like the growth habit of tulip, tall, straight, and clear. 8)

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WDH · January 20, 2010, 09:40:47 PM

Nothing I have sawn saws better than tulip (yellow) poplar.

Dave Shepard · January 21, 2010, 07:59:22 PM

I loaded the "deck" just before I went home today. 6 nice fat 12' tulips. Straight, clear, like a row of giant cigars. :D 8) I wish there was more around here. I did get a lead on some that might make it into the Giant Tree Hunting thread.

Dodgy Loner · January 22, 2010, 09:49:20 AM

Quote from: Dodgy Loner on May 20, 2009, 04:49:50 PM
Apple
Chinberry
River birch
Eastern redcedar
Black cherry
Winged elm
Pignut hickory
Red maple
Sugar maple
Pin oak
Post oak
Southern red oak
Water oak
White oak
Willow oak
Osage-orange
Pear
Eastern white pine
Loblolly pine
Virginia pine
Sugarberry
Sycamore
Black walnut
Japanese cherry
Sourwood
Yellowwood

I've finally gotten my hands on some yellow-poplar, so that goes on the list now. Also a couple shortleaf pine logs.

Dave Shepard · June 06, 2014, 08:56:34 PM

Western Massachusetts

American Chestnut
Ash, white and green
Aspen, ??
Basswood
Birch, black, white
Black cherry
Butternut
Cedar, eastern red
Cottonwood
Elm, American
Hemlock, eastern
Hickory, pignut
Hickory, shagbark
Locust, black
Larch, ??
Maple, sugar and red
Oak, red, white, black, and chestnut
Pine, white, red
Spruce, white
Sycamore
Tulip
Walnut, Black

Added larch to the list this evening. I don't know if it's European or what variety. This stuff is very red inside. I did pit saw a little larch once before, but it was green inside at first.

Dave Shepard · June 06, 2014, 09:01:04 PM

This thread has been inactive for over four years. A lot of new members since then. ;) ;)

Dave Shepard · May 04, 2017, 08:28:45 PM

Western Massachusetts

American Chestnut
Ash, white and green
Apple
Aspen, ??
Basswood
Beech, American
Birch, black, white, yellow
Black cherry
Butternut
Cedar, eastern red, atlantic white
Cottonwood
Elm, American
Hemlock, eastern
Hickory, pignut
Hickory, shagbark
Locust, black
Larch, ??
Maple, sugar and red
Oak, red, white, black, and chestnut
Pine, white, red
Spruce, white
Sycamore
Tulip
Walnut, Black

Added apple, beech, atlantic white cedar, and yellow birch. I also have hornbeam, balsam fir, and hop hornbeam on deck.

Oliver05262 · May 04, 2017, 10:09:17 PM

American Chestnut? Really? I've never seen a sapling, much less a tree big enough to make a sawlog.
How often do you get to saw American Elm? Used to saw a lot of it, especially as they were salvage harvest cut as we are doing now with Ash. Wonderful lumber for truck and trailer decking, stone boats, truck sideboards, horse stalls, and any other place that you wanted a really tough wood.

Delawhere Jack · May 04, 2017, 10:11:42 PM

From my forum signature:

black walnut, cherry, SYP, southern magnolia, poplar, hemlock, osage orange, red oak, white oak, chestnut oak, black locust, english walnut, ERC, WP, hickory, ash, black birch, beech, honey locust, apple, white cedar, black oak, basswood(?), sassafras and a "Christmas tree" full of iron

to that I can recently add: some old chestnut beams, mulberry, holly... and probably more I can't remember.

Still looking forward to milling sycamore.... it'll happen someday.

Darrel · May 04, 2017, 11:20:08 PM

Juniper, western
Pondarosa pine
Lodge pole pine
Cottonwood
Ash
Black oak
Poplar
Mountain mahogany (DanG hard stuff)
Western red cedar
Doug fir
Bing cherry

At sawmills where I worked but wasn't the sawyer

Redwood
Sitka spruce
White fir (pith fir)
Incense cedar
Port orford cedar
Sugar pine

caveman · May 05, 2017, 12:32:25 AM

Central Florida
Ipe
Australian Pine
Sweetbay
Red Maple
Live Oak
Water Oak
Southern Red Cedar
Eastern Red Cedar
Slash Pine
Longleaf Pine
Loblolly Pine
Sweetgum
Ash
Bald Cypress
Pond Cypress
Chinaberry
Camphor
Black Cherry
Laurel Oak
Western Cedar (transmission poles)
Monkey Puzzle

Magicman · May 05, 2017, 08:08:50 AM

I didn't keep up with mine and now it is 15 years too late to begin. :D

Dave Shepard · May 05, 2017, 11:38:29 AM

Quote from: Oliver05262 on May 04, 2017, 10:09:17 PM
American Chestnut? Really? I've never seen a sapling, much less a tree big enough to make a sawlog.
How often do you get to saw American Elm? Used to saw a lot of it, especially as they were salvage harvest cut as we are doing now with Ash. Wonderful lumber for truck and trailer decking, stone boats, truck sideboards, horse stalls, and any other place that you wanted a really tough wood.

I sawed two chestnut logs that had been buried since the late 1800's. They were used as deadmen for the backstays on a derrick in a quarry in my town. The sapwood was gone, but the heartwood was perfectly intact.

Dave Shepard · May 10, 2017, 02:46:47 PM

Western Massachusetts

American Chestnut
Ash, white and green
Apple
Aspen, ??
Basswood
Beech, American
Birch, black, white, yellow
Black cherry
Butternut
Cedar, eastern red, atlantic white
Cottonwood
Elm, American
Fir, balsam
Hemlock, eastern
Hickory, pignut
Hickory, shagbark
Locust, black
Larch, ??
Maple, sugar and red
Oak, red, white, black, and chestnut
Pine, white, red
Spruce, white, black
Sycamore
Tulip
Walnut, Black

Added black spruce and balsam fir. Both cut great with Small knots.