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. 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, Scotch
Pine, White
Poplar
Spruce, White
Tamarack (American Larch)

[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. 

[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.  

[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.

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

Tom, I think you are in the lead.


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. 

http://www.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.

[Ernie]

New Zealand west coast of the North Island

Radiata pine
Sequoia sempervirens
Eucalyptus  saligna
Eucalyptus  delegatensis
Cypress macrocarpa
Cypress lusitanica
Kahakitea
Rimu
Totora
Tawa
Puriri
Tasmanian blackwood
Sugar maple
Avocado
Sheoak
Willow
Poplar
Pawlonia
Japanese walnut

[rbarshaw]

South Carolina Low Country

Southern Yellow Pine
Southern Yellow Pine
Southern Yellow Pine and some
Southern Yellow Pine along with a little
Sweet Gum, White and Red.

[Engineer]

Southwestern Vermont

Ash, White
Oak, White
Oak, Red
Cedar, Eastern White
Birch, Yellow
Birch, White
Birch, Black
Maple, Silver
Maple, Red
Maple, Sugar
Hornbeam, Hop (American Ironwood)
Hickory, Shagbark
Fir, Balsam
Spruce, White
Tamarack (Larch)
Pine, Eastern White
Pine, Ponderosa (yep!)
Cherry, Black
Apple
Box Elder (Swamp Maple)

Have not sawn sumac or hemlock, but they are on the "soon" pile.  The Town also dropped two 8"-10" black locust on the road and I'm not about to let them be firewood if I can get some posts out of them.

Favorite of these to saw was the black birch.  The smell was strong wintergreen, they were used as braces in my timber frame.

[flip]

I don't want to hijack this thread but just for arguments sake, of the things that you listed of sawn items, what are the top 2 that you saw the most of.

Me it is cherry and ash.

[cantcutter]

I don't want to hijack this thread but just for arguments sake, of the things that you listed of sawn items, what are the top 2 that you saw the most of.

Me it is cherry and ash.

Top two..... oak and oak

Flip, do you service the Indianapolis area? I have a customer that needs some stuff felled and sawn up that way if you know anybody.

[Dave Shepard]

I saw mostly white pine. Also have sawn a bunch of cherry and hemlock.


Dave

[flip]

The only one in the Indy area is OneWithWood and he is around Bloomington.  Probably have to contact him to see if he does that sort of stuff.

[alpmeadow]

Rocky Mountains Canada
Our forest BGC Zone(biogeoclimatic) is called interior cedar hemlock  at 800 to 1100m (2600 to 3600 ft asl).
I have cut:
Douglas Fir
Lodgepole Pine
Engelman's Spruce
Western Red Cedar
Tembling Aspen
Paper Birch
Hemlock
I have some deadfall juniper but haven't cut it yet.
Cheers
alpmeadow

[Stake Maker]

Upstate New York.

Types Of Wood Sawn:
Red Oak
Swamp White Oak
Upland White Oak
Black Oak
Box Elder
Red Maple
Silver Maple
Hard Maple
Norway Maple
Butternut
Walnut
English Walnut
Sycamore
Sweet Cherry
Black Cherry
White Ash
Basswood
Beech
Yellow Birch
White Birch
Black Birch
Pignut Hickory
Shagbark Hickory
Aspen
Cottonwood
Tulip Poplar
Cucumbertree
White Pine
Red Pine
Scotch Pine(aka junk)
Hemlock
Larch
Spruce
Staghorn Sumac
Red Elm
American Elm
Horse Chestnut
Osage Orange
Ironwood
Black Locust
Honey Locust
Sassafras
Red Cedar
White Cedar
Apple
Hackberry
Ailanthus
Catalpa
Red Mulberry
White Mulberry
Pacific Yew
and probably a couple others I can't remember now

The ones I cut the most of are White Pine, Ash, and White Oak.

Have also cut Lilac, Grapevine, Mesquite, and Cabbage Palm on a woodworking bandsaw. I'm kind of a wood nut and collect as many types of woods as I can in pen blank sizes( about 1" x 1" x 6"). I am up to about 335 different types through cutting the stuff myself, trading with others, and buying from other places like ebay.

I just want to say this is a great site.
Shawn

[Dave Shepard]

That's a nice list.  Welcome to the Forum! 


Dave

[jackpine]

I don't want to hijack this thread but I am curious why Stake Maker called Scotch pine " junk ". I have only sawn it twice, the first time they were fairly large, about 20" dia., and were sawn into 1" boards. looked and sawed about like red pine but with more of a yellow color sawdust. The boards lookd o.k. but I have not heard from the customer as to how they turned out after drying. The other occasion was last week when I was sawing a mix of white pine, red pine, jack pine and scotch pine to make timbers. Again except for the yellow sawdust it sawed much like red or jack pine. While jack pine also can have yellow sawdust the scotch pine really stood out.

 Anyone else have experience with scotch pine and if so, how did it turn out.

My list
white pine
red pine
jack pine
scotch pine
northern white cedar
eastern red cedar
western red cedar  ( Power poles
white spruce
Norway spruce
blue spruce
black spruce
red oak
black oak
pin oak
bur oak
white oak
swamp white oak
white ash
green ash
bitternut hickory
walnut
butternut
black locust
honey locust
cherry
slippery elm
cottonwood
aspen
popular
basswood

[Larry]

I can take a stab at your question based on experiences sawing in north Missouri.  Scotch pine has too many knots because it doesn’t self prune well and dies due to a virus before getting of much size.  I’ve also sawed jack pine...crooked and knotty.  Another name for it is scrub pine...for a reason.  Red pine has sawn out better than the other two but not much.  Again my limited experience is in north Missouri where native pine is non-existent.

Now that I’m living in Arkansas I’m eagerly awaiting my first SYP and loblolly pine.

[Stake Maker]

I should have clarified the remark about Scotch Pine a little. The only Red Pine I have sawn was plantation grown and cut great. The only Scotch Pine I have cut was brought in by people who removed them from their yards. Both times they were large ugly trees with numerous very large limbs.  In each case they wanted thin(about 1/2" thick) and narrow(4"-5" wide) boards which did not fair well during drying. Most of the boards had several knots in each one at least half the width of the piece. In addition the wide cuts, say over 14", sawed pretty wavy, much worse than large spruce. I'm sure smaller, better quality logs would have yielded better results, but I guess that is true of any specie.
Shawn

[Timburr]

Our Scots (Scotch) pine in the UK is a dream to mill.  We get the occasional wolf tree that is a pig.   They are the only species our telephone companies use for their poles.   

The general concensous, from reading previous FF posts, is the USA seems to have an inferior strain of Scots pine.  Maybe your early poineers took over seeds from the 'wolf trees'!

[WDH]

The old growth Scots that I saw in Sweden was very fine stuff.  It is an impressive tree. 

[Dave Shepard]

Most of the scots pine around here is very shrubby, much like a mugo (sp).


Dave

[SwampDonkey]

Jack pine is crooked and knotty if it isn't grown tight. In plantations, it isn't spaced tight enough to grow straight and prune. If you get it from an old fire site, it is as straight as gun barrels and with knot free but logs. I see many plantations with very limby and crooked stuff growing. It's not like fir and spruce and has to be managed more intensely in my opinion.

Many early planted Scots pine here were crooked because of poor planting stock. It was of poor form even where the seed was collected. Better seed sources have been found since. Also we have a lot of insect damage from sawfly and maybe weevils.

[treecyclers]

Arizona Desert Trees I've sawn (and some I wish I hadn't!)
Honey Mesquite
Black Mesquite
Desert Ironwood
Ash
Mulberry
Alligator Juniper
Utah Juniper
Ponderosa Pine
Red Gum Eucalyptus
Blue Gum Eucalyptus
Shaggy Bark Eucalyptus
Maple Burl
Tasmanian Myrtle Burl
Aleppo Pine
AZ Walnut - oldest known west of Mississippi per U of A Ag dept
Black Locust
Elm
Chinese Pistachio
Aromatic Cedar
Black Walnut
Big Leaf Maple
Carob
Camphor
Live Oak
Scrub Oak (It was a honker)
Porcupine Mesquite (A mesquite log with more nails in it than Home Depot)
AZ Olive
Russian Olive
Dunnowhatitis Butitspurdy
Persimmon
AZ Sycamore
Silk Oak (nasty, nasty stuff)
Concrete Block
Brick
Rocks

Here in the Desert, ya never know what you're gonna find!
Sweatin' it summer like in Phoenix!
Superdave

[Dave Shepard]

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
Spruce, white
Sycamore


Added sycamore to the list this last weekend. Q-sawed some of it yesterday. Nice figure.

[thedeeredude]

Ash, beech, white pine.  I don't own a mill, it was cut on a buddy's mill.  The white pine was the nicest to saw.  The beech was out drying for a year in the log and had some knots and defect, didn't cut too nice.  Ash went great though.

[Dodgy Loner]

Apple
River birch
Eastern redcedar
Black cherry
Winged elm
Red maple
Water oak
White oak
Loblolly pine
Sugarberry
Sycamore
Black walnut

I have added a few to the list since my dad bought the LT15:

Japanese cherry
Pin oak
Sourwood
Yellowwood

[Lanier_Lurker]

I have added a few to the list since my dad bought the LT15:

Japanese cherry
Pin oak
Sourwood
Yellowwood

Was the sourwood green?  If so, did you notice the smell?

[WDH]

I would love to see some pics of sourwood.

[Dodgy Loner]

The sourwood had been dead and on the ground for an undetermined length of time.  I was hoping for spalt, but all I got was firewood .  Still counts .  Actually, I have one more log from another tree.  I will definitely take picture when I mill it this weekend!

[WDH]

Is sourwood ring or diffuse?  I bet diffuse, but I have never examined any.

[SwampDonkey]

yeah, wood tech says diffuse and distinct rings but not prominent (similar to maple), not quite as dense, darker wood.

[Dodgy Loner]

SD is right, it's diffuse-porous. I have a couple samples in my wood collection that I salvaged from firewood.  Definitely maplish.

[Dave Shepard]

Western Massachusetts

Ash, white and green
Aspen, ??
Basswood
Birch, black, white
Black cherry
Butternut
Cedar, ERC?
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

I've added a cedar to the list. I'm thinking it is ERC, but not sure, I've never seen, or sawn, it before.

[Dave Shepard]

We've had a lot of new members join this winter, let's see some new lists! 

[WDH]

ERC for sure.  You should have been able to smell it  .

[Dave Shepard]

Oh, I could smell it alright. I have been cleaning out the log yard, so my sawdust pile is a mix of black cherry, white pine, ash, ERC, and hard maple. I'm sawing in different batches, so the layers are inter mixed. The wind was blowing pretty hard yesterday, and it revealed the different colors in the sawdust pile. Mad a very unique pattern. No camera, however.

[Chico]

all over south america and latin america some and all over the SE united states
mahogoney
anderobia
Ligma Vitae
Banak
Tropical Cedar
Pau marfine
Sandy
bloodwood
chechen
kingwood
all kinds of misc woods both domestic and tropical
mixed tropical HWs
Red oaks all species
white oaks all species
ash
tuper gum
sweet gum
cherry
 elm(soft and hard)
hackberry
walnut
magnolia
bay
maple (soft and hard)
cypress
domestic cedar
juniper
poplar
yellow pine
white pine
slash pine
field pine
shortleaf pine
hemlock
some unidentifiable mixtures of pine
hickory (pignut and shagbark)
bass wood
holly
buckeye
beech
cottonwood

Chico

[Dave Shepard]

  That's a lot of trees I've never heard of. Thanks.

[Don K]

I guess I can add my pitiful little list. 

SYP
Spruce pine
White oak
Red Oak
Water Oak
Poplar
Sweet Gum
Beech
Black Walnut
Eastern Red Cedar
Cherry
Spalted Red Maple
Elm or Green Ash (I don't know what species it was. Wood stunk)

I guess it was a little more than I thought.

Don

[Steve]

This outght to be fun. I'm going to try and list chronologically so I can try and remember them.

Black Walnut
Pine
Douglas Fir
Western Red Cedar
Alaska Yellow Cedar
Hemlock
Spruce
Alder
White Fir
Port Orford Cedar
Koa
Ohia
Kiawe
Ironwood (several species)
Eucalyptus (several species)
Mango
Cinnamon
Lychee
Bloodwood
Albezia

[fishpharmer]

I saw way more trees than that in my life.

Oh, you said sawn. 

ERC
SYP
 
Thats just my short list.

I got big plans

[boardum]

Reading through the list of woods that everyone has cut makes one wish for photos. I would really enjoy seeing most of them.

North Oregon Coast

how about largest of some??

Pacific Yew
Dogwood
White Oak, 5 1/2', Curly
Tan Oak
Myrtlewood, 6' dbh, Curly
Madrone, 5', Curly
NW wild Cherry (sweet)
Ash
Hemlock
Douglas Fir
Red Alder,  40"
Western Red Cedar, 12',
Big Leaf maple,  9 1/2' on stump 8' dbh, Curly Blackline Spalt
Bastogne Walnut,  8 1/2' stump 71/2' dbh, Curly
English Walnut
Western Black Walnut
Claro Walnut
Silver Maple
Redwood burl
Chinquapin

Would like to saw,
  Curly Red Gum Eucalyptus
  Buck Eye Burl
 
Saw some turnings out of Scotch Broom.   Really Nice.   And Quilted Cascara

[Chico]

Biggest log I've ever sawn was a mahogany a little over 10' diam. and 40' long lots of 6 and 7 ft. but that was many yrs ago sawed them on a 9 ft left hand steam mill with a12" shotgun feed  We were cutting countertops and table tops for exec. tables 16/4 min 48 " wide you ought to seen the people trying to handle those things
Chico

[maple flats]

Central NY state, USA

Will likely forget some but here goes.
Black Cherry
Eastern hemlock
White Oak
Swamp white oak
Basswood
red oak
white spruce
sugar maple
red maple
silver maple
Balm of Gillead
black walnut
white ash
black ash
scots pine
white pine
red pine
box alder
blue beech
poplar

I'll add more if i remember any others.

[tyb525]

Eastern Indiana

Ash, White
Boxelder
Cedar, Eastern Red
Cherry, Black
Crabapple
Eastern White Pine
Hickory, Pignut
Locust, Black
Maple, Silver
Maple, Sugar
Oak, White
Poplar, Tulip (yellow)

more to come!

[Dodgy Loner]

Apple
River birch
Eastern redcedar
Black cherry
Winged elm
Red maple
Water oak
White oak
Pin oak
Loblolly pine
Sugarberry
Sycamore
Black walnut
Japanese cherry
Sourwood
Yellowwood

Figured I would update the list after sawing up some sugar maple for the first time yesterday.  It was from a tree that was planted in front of my county courthouse in 1967.  The gas company dug a drench right beside it a few years ago, and it had been slowly declining ever since.  It branched out into several trunks at 4', and the log I got was from the largest of them at 16 or 17 inches in diameter and 8' long.  I also sawed up a short 3' log into turning blanks.  Turned out really nice and was a pleasure to saw, even after using the blade to mill a big, ugly, dried-out pignut hickory (about 300 B.F. worth).  Now if I can just get it to dry without staining...I stacked it inside my dad's shop and put a fan on it to get it dry as quickly as possible.  We'll see what happens.

Here are the additions to my list since last time:

Chinberry
Willow oak
Osage-orange
Virginia pine
Pignut hickory
Sugar maple

I've also got a big (24"+) post oak waiting for me to mill it

[peterduncan]

Western CT

Telephone Poles
Lite Poles
PO Box Poles
Pencils
Fingers
Thumbs
air

[Dave Shepard]

Western Massachusetts

American Chestnut
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
Spruce, white
Sycamore

Added chestnut to the list a few weeks ago. I've only seen a couple of chestnut around here, and they're all scraggly unhealthy trees. So where did I get sawlogs? We dug'em up. My boss owns an old marble quarry across the valley from me (I've sawn marble, but that doesn't fit the tread description.  ) and we found two logs that had been used as deadmen. They would have to have been buried for almost 90 years, as a minimum, and possibly many many years older. They each had a big hole in them, made with an auger, you can still see the series of round holes. I sawed them into cants and the heartwood was perfect. The sapwood was pretty well gone, however.

I also resawed something the other night that I couldn't identify. A customer brought in 8 8/4 flitches to split in half. The looked just like really knotty hemlock, and smelled like a horse was in the neighborhood, if you know what I mean. Pretty rank. However, as I sawed into them, I could smell lemons.  I guess, when I figure it out, I can add it to the list.

[tyb525]

Eastern Indiana

Ash, White
Boxelder
Cedar, Eastern Red
Cherry, Black
Crabapple
Eastern White Pine
Hickory, Pignut
Locust, Black
Maple, Silver
Maple, Sugar
Oak, White
Poplar, Tulip (yellow)

Additions:

Barn beams
Beech
Cedar, Northern White
Elm, Red
Locust, Honey
Walnut

[SwampDonkey]

I also resawed something the other night that I couldn't identify. A customer brought in 8 8/4 flitches to split in half. The looked just like really knotty hemlock, and smelled like a horse was in the neighborhood, if you know what I mean. Pretty rank. However, as I sawed into them, I could smell lemons.  I guess, when I figure it out, I can add it to the list.

Was it sassafras? It's aromatic when fresh sawn. Grain looks like ash.

[Dodgy Loner]

Apple
River birch
Eastern redcedar
Black cherry
Yoshino cherry
Chinberry
Winged elm
Pignut hickory
Red maple
Sugar maple
Water oak
Willow oak
White oak
Pin oak
Osage-orange
Loblolly pine
Virginia pine
Sourwood
Sugarberry
Sycamore
Black walnut
Yellowwood

I guess it's time for me to update the list. Here are the ones I've added since last time:

Post oak
Southern red oak
Pear
Eastern white pine

Dave, as far as your horse-manure-and-lemon scented wood goes...I don't know what it was, but I'm pretty sure I've never sawed it up before...

[Dave Shepard]

SD, I don't know what it is. I'll try to get a pic, if the boards are still there. The grain looked exactly like hemlock. The rings have a very particular look to them, and that's why I thought it was hemlock at first. There might even be some bark.

[junkhound]

East Texas

White Oak
Red Oak
Post Oak
SYP
Hackberry
Hickory
White Ash
Eastern Red Cedar

[tyb525]

I have sawn non-poisonous sumac (that I forgot to add to my list) that smelled awful...

[SwampDonkey]

I have sawn non-poisonous sumac (that I forgot to add to my list) that smelled awful...

Did the grain look like butternut? Or was it something other than staghorn? A friend sawed a piece a few years ago on his shop band saw. It was light and looked like butternut.

This is butternut, you can see gray and brown color to the grain.



I am particularly fond of this grain pattern.

[amberwood]

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]

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]

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

[tyb525]

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

[Dave Shepard]

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. 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]

A neighbor just gave me a Pistache Tree...

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

[Dave Shepard]

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.


I

[WDH]

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

[Dave Shepard]

I loaded the "deck" just before I went home today. 6 nice fat 12' tulips. Straight, clear, like a row of giant cigars. 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]

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.