Sawing cypress

slider · January 18, 2014, 07:30:23 AM

I have been sawing cypress for the last couple of days.Medium or average size trees.It was going so slow trying to get one by sixes out of the last load.So I went searching for some bigger stuff to work with.Check out the size of these 3 trees.The first cut yielded 26 1x6 's compared to 5 to 7 before.

WDH · January 18, 2014, 07:32:54 AM

I wish that I could get some cypress logs like those.

julio · January 18, 2014, 07:34:04 AM

Them look like some nice trees . Hope you good luck with them. 8)

caveman · January 18, 2014, 08:02:23 AM

Those are beautiful logs. I love sawing cypress except for having to clear the dust chute fingers frequently.

sealark37 · January 18, 2014, 08:48:57 AM

I'll bet the mosquitoes are the size of jaybirds where those logs came from.

drobertson · January 18, 2014, 08:53:16 AM

Yea, that looks like the mother load! nice logs for sure, david

Qweaver · January 18, 2014, 09:23:08 AM

I always think of cypress as having a lot of taper. Those logs seem pretty straight.

POSTON WIDEHEAD · January 18, 2014, 10:32:25 AM

Slider, ya gonna get some very nice boards from those logs.

pineywoods · January 18, 2014, 11:39:09 AM

Hey folks, slidder is pulling y'all's leg ;D Them nice logs are second and third cuts. The butt cuts would have a flare that adds new meaning to the word bibbying...

mmartone · January 18, 2014, 12:06:23 PM

Yup....

slider · January 18, 2014, 12:34:13 PM

Piney ,I left the butts in the creek.My lill'o 361 with a 20 in bar did not wan't any part of them.I probably could have borrowed Jake's 066 but I already had to steal a solenoid from him this week to finish this job.
David,I had to have 1x6's out of them .Just about killed me.

customsawyer · January 18, 2014, 06:59:09 PM

Steal!

I thought you was borrowing it. (Bit by another salesman) :(

Those are some mighty fine logs.

Nomad · January 18, 2014, 08:38:12 PM

Nice looking logs Al! Only problem with sawing cypress is that I don't get enough of it.

WoodenHead · January 18, 2014, 08:52:01 PM

Very nice logs. What does cypress look like when sawn? I don't see that kind of stuff up this way.

Magicman · January 18, 2014, 10:21:51 PM

That is a nice whack of Cypress.

It is one of my favorite species to saw.

WDH · January 18, 2014, 10:22:51 PM

I want some

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caveman · January 18, 2014, 11:03:34 PM

Woodenhead,
I do not have any really impressive pictures of sawn cypress although it is often impressive looking stuff, especially if you can find some from old trees or logs that have been sunken for a long time. The porch swing is built from some pond cypress and the boards on the small stack are from a log that was submerged most of the time since it was blown down during one of the 2004 hurricanes we had. Some of the boards in the stack are pecky. The second picture is of a pavilion at O'Leno State Park that was built during the 1930's by the CCC.