Thought this was a Dawn Redwood until I cut it.
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Looking at pictures online it resembles an Alaskan Yellow Cedar to my untrained eye.
Could be chinafir, Cunninghamii lanceolata.
Virginia Tech Dendrology Fact Sheet (https://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=449)
All I have to go by is the log and lumber, I'm cutting at a lot clearers dump site. The log resembled a Japanese Cedar or Dawn Redwood, but the color and smell when cutting were wrong. Hardly any odor while cutting.
Pretty sure that is what it is. A very common ornamental tree.
Thanks again WDH. I like cutting the oddball logs to see what's inside.
Clearing job logs are like a box of chocolates, you never know what your going to get inside. ;D
@customsawyer (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=1861) cut one a few weeks ago. Maybe he will post some pics.
I failed miserably when trying to identify the one at Customsawyer's. The bark and taste of the wood had me thinking cypress- then Furby showed us some different looking needles.
Another clue that I missed was the Made in China note written on the end of the log.
Nice looking slabs, Poquo.
Thanks Caveman, I'll make something out of them once they dry, maybe a book matched tabletop.
It is interesting that I don't remember ever having sawed this kind before but after cutting the one folks are discussing from the project. I had another come in this week.
This is the one that landed here about a month ago. The lumber was nice. Looked about like ERC with out the red. I will also show what helped Danny ID this one.
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You are giving up my secrets :).
Here's a picture of the log.
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I still have about 2 feet of the butt end I'm going to cut into cookies.
Eastern red, Atlantic white, Northern white and Dawn redwood logs have all been in my yard at the same time. One time I had a fat white cedar dropped here and when i sawed it, it was pure white all the way through. No idea what that was.
Looks like a big white cedar. Definitely not eastern red. I built a boat with white cedar and epoxy. Easy to work with doesn't shrink much. Alot interior walls of log homes done very nicely with white cedar paneling. Not a good cedar like the reds for outside use.