Author Topic: Your favorite... (Read 1109 times)

Okrafarmer · « **on:** February 04, 2012, 09:09:56 pm »

This has probably been asked before, but let's lighten the mood and dream a little bit here.

Let's suppose that all the pressure is off, your mill is working really well, and you have the chance, just for fun, to mill a log. It is a nice straight 24" diameter log of a suitable length, and you can mill it up any which way you like. Of all the species that grow within ten miles of your house, what would be your favorite one to mill? And then, you can put your second and third favorites, too.

Note: If there aren't many trees within ten miles of your house, you can extend it out to 50 miles.

Me:
1. Holly
2. Walnut
3. Ambrosia Red Maple

mikeb1079 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 04, 2012, 09:42:58 pm »

1. black cherry
2. walnut
3. red cedar

Okrafarmer · « **Reply #2 on:** February 04, 2012, 09:44:12 pm »

black cherry and red cedar are also in my top 10!

Chuck White · « **Reply #3 on:** February 04, 2012, 09:53:52 pm »

I'd love to saw the following if they were 24".

Black Locust

Yellow Birch

Red Cedar

WDH · « **Reply #4 on:** February 04, 2012, 10:00:09 pm »

Black walnut (The King of wood)
Black Cherry (The Queen of wood)
Maple (Hard or soft)

POSTONLT40HD · « **Reply #5 on:** February 04, 2012, 10:13:52 pm »

1. POPLAR
2. RED CEDAR
3. SYCAMORE

red oaks lumber · « **Reply #6 on:** February 04, 2012, 10:19:27 pm »

1) white ash
2) basswood
3) white oak
4) white pine

Okrafarmer · « **Reply #7 on:** February 04, 2012, 10:37:11 pm »

Quote from: POSTONLT40HD on February 04, 2012, 10:13:52 pm

1. POPLAR
2. RED CEDAR
3. SYCAMORE

Do you quartersaw your sycamore, David, or just go right through it? I agree it is a beautiful wood. I know where there is a nice 4' diameter log at our log yard we go to that they haven't been able to sell for a little while.

Okrafarmer · « **Reply #8 on:** February 04, 2012, 10:39:23 pm »

Quote from: Chuck White on February 04, 2012, 09:53:52 pm

I'd love to saw the following if they were 24".

Black Locust

Yellow Birch

Red Cedar

I must say I'm surprised somebody likes to mill black locust. It is a very useful wood, though. I have a couple logs I'm not going to use.

caveman · « **Reply #9 on:** February 04, 2012, 10:44:09 pm »

1. Cypress
2 Black Cherry
3. Southern Red Cedar

paul case · « **Reply #10 on:** February 04, 2012, 10:55:22 pm »

1 ERC
2 Southern red oak
3 Sycamore

Magicman · « **Reply #11 on:** February 04, 2012, 10:55:38 pm »

1. SYP has to be first because that is where my $$$ are made.
2. Black Walnut simply because it is Black Walnut and it makes folks happy.
3. I probably should list Eastern Red Cedar because I saw so much, but sawing it is only a job to me.

5quarter · « **Reply #12 on:** February 04, 2012, 11:45:02 pm »

24" dbh right? You said I could dream a bit...

1) Apple
2) Peach
3) Honeylocust

Three of my favorite cabinet woods.

Okrafarmer · « **Reply #13 on:** February 05, 2012, 12:25:24 am »

Quote from: 5quarter on February 04, 2012, 11:45:02 pm

24" dbh right? You said I could dream a bit...

1) Apple
2) Peach
3) Honeylocust

Three of my favorite cabinet woods.

I've never done peach, but I could get some from the orchards near here. Do you have any pictures? Does it resemble cherry at all? They are related.

pyrocasto · « **Reply #14 on:** February 05, 2012, 01:41:57 am »

1. Apple
2. Blue stain pine.
3. Walnut.

Okrafarmer · « **Reply #15 on:** February 05, 2012, 01:47:49 am »

Hey, you're just up the road from me.

tyb525 · « **Reply #16 on:** February 05, 2012, 02:49:08 am »

1. Honeylocust
2. Cherry
3. Quilted/birdseye Hard Maple

Meadows Miller · « **Reply #17 on:** February 05, 2012, 05:43:55 am »

Australia

#1 Red Ironbark #2 Red Gum #3 Stringy Bark

America

#1 Southern Yellow Pine #2 Any Oak #3 Cypress Pine

Okrafarmer · « **Reply #18 on:** February 05, 2012, 06:11:05 am »

Meadows, I actually helped to saw up some wood in Victoria-- it was mainly sheoke, I think, though maybe some other things too. It was firewood, though, not lumber!

Oh, by the way, I can't help enjoying how the Aussies name their trees after the kind of bark it has!

Meadows Miller · « **Reply #19 on:** February 05, 2012, 06:44:58 am »

Sheoaks a bloody nice timber to saw too it makes good furniture timber

never cut a hell off alot of it though only afew logs here n there but there are a good number of plantations of it planted atm just gotta wait

Im upto over 150 species off trees now I was keeping a book with how they sawed and how they came out and any adjustments I needed to do to the saw to mill them but that got lost along the way (thrown out)

Yeah its reasonaby easy to identify trees here

barstard box is one off the hardest woods to saw i have ever come across its an apt name too Mate

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