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

mad murdock · « **Reply #20 on:** February 05, 2012, 07:49:42 am »

Coastal Douglas Fir
Western Red Cedar
Pacific Madrone

I love doug fir! WRC though not near as aerobatic as ERC, it's still a cedar and an awesome wood. Madrone-I just want to mill some cause it is such a curious wood.

POSTONLT40HD · « **Reply #21 on:** February 05, 2012, 10:15:12 am »

Do you quartersaw your sycamore, David, or just go right through it?
[/quote] from Okrafarmer

Yes I do quarter saw sycamore. I usually don't even mess with a Sycamore log unless it is at least 28 inches.
That snake skin look after quarter sawing is INCREDIBLE.

terrifictimbersllc · « **Reply #22 on:** February 05, 2012, 10:21:54 am »

1) Yellow poplar
2) Hemlock
3) Walnut

texbob · « **Reply #23 on:** February 05, 2012, 11:07:48 am »

Realy haven't sawn that many different kind of trees but I like the ones that are a bit controversial.
1: Sweet Gum
2: Hackberry
3: Eastern Red Cedar

Okrafarmer · « **Reply #24 on:** February 05, 2012, 02:21:26 pm »

I like controversial ones too. I have not yet but would like to try Sassafrass, Butternut, Hackberry, Sourwood, Magnolia, Eucalyptus, River Birch, Beech, and Deodar Cedar. All of which grow around here, or nearby. I have tried holly and Chinese Chestnut, and would like to do more of both, with better logs than I've had so far.

two tired · « **Reply #25 on:** February 05, 2012, 05:08:34 pm »

1. sassafrass 2. magnolia 3. redgum

millwright · « **Reply #26 on:** February 05, 2012, 05:34:32 pm »

Black ash, white ash,red pine.

rbarshaw · « **Reply #27 on:** February 05, 2012, 09:38:08 pm »

1) Maple
2) Sweet Gum
3) Cypress

acco1840 · « **Reply #28 on:** February 05, 2012, 09:57:04 pm »

1. Tasmanian Blue Gum
2. Stringy Bark
3 Swap Gum

steamsawyer · « **Reply #29 on:** February 05, 2012, 11:40:18 pm »

Bout all we got in my neighborhood is longleaf yeller pine. Occasionally we might see some cypress but that is getting pretty scarce around here.

Maybe I need to try some palm trees.

Okrafarmer · « **Reply #30 on:** February 06, 2012, 01:20:35 am »

Quote from: POSTONLT40HD on February 05, 2012, 10:15:12 am

Yes I do quarter saw sycamore. I usually don't even mess with a Sycamore log unless it is at least 28 inches.
That snake skin look after quarter sawing is INCREDIBLE.

Well like I said I know where there's a nice 4-footer waiting for you, about 100 miles away. Too big? Too far, anyway, I guess.

fat olde elf · « **Reply #31 on:** February 06, 2012, 01:24:56 am »

1. ERC, 2. White Oak 3. Anything that has no metal....

Cedarman · « **Reply #32 on:** February 06, 2012, 03:29:31 pm »

I just love to saw all 3 of these.

1) Eastern Red Cedar
2) Aromatic Red Cedar
3) Juniperus Virgianii

Ironwood · « **Reply #33 on:** February 06, 2012, 05:23:09 pm »

Walnut
Walnut
Walnut

Ironwood (doesnt get big enough to mill, Ironwood. that is)

customsawyer · « **Reply #34 on:** February 06, 2012, 05:59:55 pm »

I want to cut what ever big logs Danny finds for me.

Okrafarmer · « **Reply #35 on:** February 06, 2012, 07:31:27 pm »

My boss man has an ironwood that is about 10". Not very straight, but I could mill a 5-6' piece out of it if I were determined to.

Cypress Sam · « **Reply #36 on:** February 06, 2012, 07:58:18 pm »

sinker cypress
sinker red sweet gum
blue cotton wood

These paid the bills untill a few years back

Ironwood · « **Reply #37 on:** February 06, 2012, 08:18:38 pm »

We get'um 10-12" max. Not real interesting once milled. I have split some armrests.

Ironwood

cutterboy · « **Reply #38 on:** February 06, 2012, 08:20:12 pm »

Quote from: Okrafarmer on February 05, 2012, 06:11:05 am

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

We have our shagbark hickory

1. Black cherry

2. Black birch (smells minty)

3. White birch

WDH · « **Reply #39 on:** February 06, 2012, 10:13:21 pm »

Those shagbarks look flinty. Maybe we can find some REALLY big ones for Customsawyer

.

Okrafarmer · « **Reply #40 on:** February 07, 2012, 12:45:02 am »

Quote from: cutterboy on February 06, 2012, 08:20:12 pm

Quote from: Okrafarmer on February 05, 2012, 06:11:05 am

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

We have our shagbark hickory

Ok, I guess you got me there! And what would our carpet industry do without it???!!

submarinesailor · « **Reply #41 on:** February 07, 2012, 07:46:06 am »

Quote from: WDH on February 06, 2012, 10:13:21 pm

Maybe we can find some REALLY big ones for Customsawyer .

Danny - I have one for you. Based on an educated guess, it's still 20" at about 65' up and just as straight as it can be. But, you have to come to Virginia to get it. Shot many a squirrels out of it.

Bruce

WDH · « **Reply #42 on:** February 07, 2012, 07:49:22 am »

Bruce, if it did not have all that lead in it from the squirrel shooting, I would load up and come get it today

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submarinesailor · « **Reply #43 on:** February 07, 2012, 07:56:38 am »

Now wait just a minute.........are you trying to say I'm a bad shot or something.

I usually hit what I'm shooting at. When me and my buddies are squirrel hunting we have standards. A head shot is one point, a body shot is -1 point and one that shot in the eye counts as 2 points. Needless to say, I don't get as many 2 pointers as I did back about 25 years ago.

Getting old and fat is a PITA big time.

Bruce

Chuck White · « **Reply #44 on:** February 07, 2012, 09:07:41 am »

Quote from: Okrafarmer 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.

It's not that I love sawing Black Locust (necessarily), it's just that I've never seen one that's 24 inches in diameter.

So, therefore I'd like to saw one.

MapleNut · « **Reply #45 on:** February 07, 2012, 09:27:00 am »

Red Oak
Hard Maple
White Cedar

qbilder · « **Reply #46 on:** February 07, 2012, 10:12:05 am »

Well since I can dream, it would be a spiny all thorn, cats claw acacia, and a desert scrub oak. None get 24" but if they did they'd be stunners.

Dodgy Loner · « **Reply #47 on:** February 07, 2012, 10:19:42 am »

1) Black Cherry
2) Black Walnut
3) River Birch: This is an oddball choice, I know - I've only sawed one tree because it's so hard to find one of decent quality, but if it's a straight 24-incher, then it will produce some of the prettiest wood you'll ever see.

I would put curly/quilted maple on the list, but it doesn't grow within 10 (or even 500) miles of my house, so it doesn't count

Okrafarmer · « **Reply #48 on:** February 07, 2012, 07:56:59 pm »

Dodgy, I have actually milled one river birch tree. It is hard to find straight sections sometimes, but it is nice. And there are some decent 24-30" specimens around here.

Chuck White, one of the black locust logs I have here is approaching 24". I don't know what to do with it though. Too tough for the bad mill, and been sitting around for more than a year.

cypresskayaksllc · « **Reply #49 on:** February 07, 2012, 07:59:30 pm »

Cypress
Black Cherry
SYP

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