Saw video thread

[RI Chevy]

jeff you need more wood

I do some almost every day. Lol
Going through the 5 gallon cans of VP SEF like nothing.

 

[RI Chevy]

Dallas, you need to make some more videos with all your new ported saws! Wow. You got some real nice saws coming back to you. Lol
They are getting all doctored up.

 

[dall]

the ground is so wet here you sink in about 2 inches right now

 

[RI Chevy]

Lol. Ut oh. You having the up and down weather too down there?

 

[dall]

snow then ground freezes and a few days of rain

 

[RI Chevy]

Same here Dallas.

 

[beaglebriar]

How about this wood? I cut a 175 ft stick of this.
It has stringy bark, very tough to split, as it grabs hold of the Ax, as smells bad. Kind of on the softer side. Very wet and moist.

Yep definitely Aspen. Smells like poop but it'll make heat if you get it dry. Burned a little of that here today.

 

[RI Chevy]

Ahhh. OK. Thanks guys. I dry it for a couple of years under my lean-to. It does get fairly hard, but does not coal up when it burns. Burns like a cigarette, right to ash. Gotta either mix it with some oak or maple. It does burn hot though.

 

[MustangMike]

Jeff, your first wood looks kinda like Black Walnut.

 

[RI Chevy]

That was what I thought too Mike. I cut a few black walnut trees a few years back. When I hand split the rounds, i kept the center dark walnut rounds. In fact I still have them. They must be as dry as a bone by know. I kept them in case someone wanted to make gun grips or knife handles with the rock hard darker center.
This wood kind of splits the same way. Not straight grained, in fact, not really much grain at all. Just seems really meaty. With a little 4 to 5 inch round center piece that stays in tact, and the rest of the round splits around that center part. But it is probably Aspen. Bark is really stringy, and the wood is all white. Soft.

 

[Magic_Man]

How about this wood? I cut a 175 ft stick of this.
It has stringy bark, very tough to split, as it grabs hold of the Ax, as smells bad. Kind of on the softer side. Very wet and moist.

As others have said that's Aspen. Around here those are prone to blowing down once they hit 16" or so. I don't use them for heat but keep a few logs around for testing saws and cutting cookies.

 

[RI Chevy]

Yup. I cut the whole tree up with an Stihl 026 running an 18" bar .325 .063 Stihl full chisel. Very soft wood.

 

[MustangMike]

That was what I thought too Mike. I cut a few black walnut trees a few years back. When I hand split the rounds, i kept the center dark walnut rounds. In fact I still have them. They must be as dry as a bone by know. I kept them in case someone wanted to make gun grips or knife handles with the rock hard darker center.
This wood kind of splits the same way. Not straight grained, in fact, not really much grain at all. Just seems really meaty. With a little 4 to 5 inch round center piece that stays in tact, and the rest of the round splits around that center part. But it is probably Aspen. Bark is really stringy, and the wood is all white. Soft.

Not talkin about the Aspen, the one you think is Locust. Looks like Black Walnut to me, but tough to tell from pics.

 

[RI Chevy]

Definitely not black walnut. It has completely straight grains like oak. But thinner strands. Splits just like oak too.

 

[MustangMike]

Sounds like Walnut to me, the stuff I have cut split just as easy as Ash. Cut a bunch of it two years ago for fire wood.

Now, wish I had milled it.

 

[Magic_Man]

Definitely not black walnut. It has completely straight grains like oak. But thinner strands. Splits just like oak too.

After diggin around on the net I'm going to agree with the Kentucky Coffee tree. While rare in your area, it looks spot on for the bark and the lumber.

 

[RI Chevy]

Cool. I will check it out.

 

[Deets066]

Sounds like Walnut to me, the stuff I have cut split just as easy as Ash. Cut a bunch of it two years ago for fire wood.

Now, wish I had milled it.

Definitely not black walnut



Walnut is much darker

When split the heart wood looks purple and edges turn green

 

[MustangMike]

This is Black Walnut. Split is all by hand, no problem at all!

 

[jk14]

jeff you need more wood

You got that right Dallas. I can't get enough wood to run my saws. Gonna open up the muffler, bump the timing and lean this B... out tomorrow and see what she's got. Probably put a better chain on her too.