Saw video thread

[RI Chevy]

Red maple that's hard as hell? I think you might need a wood education.

What exactly do you mean sir?

 

[Coltont]

What exactly do you mean sir?

Theres a reason it's called soft maple. Isn't just cause it sounds cool.

 

[RI Chevy]

This wood was some of the hardest I have cut all season. Harder than oak. It was a dead stand.

 

[Deets066]

Theres a reason it's called soft maple. Isn't just cause it sounds cool.

Damnit Colton, when are you gunna fix your avatar

 

[Cigmaker]

Damnit Colton, when are you gunna fix your avatar

That's right before the log rolled over him.

 

[Coltont]

Damnit Colton, when are you gunna fix your avatar

I tried a few couple times. Always seemed to end up cockeyed. So I just go with it.

 

[MustangMike]

Red Maple, AKA Swamp Maple & Soft Maple, is usually much easier to cut than Oak or Hard (Sugar) Maple.

However, is is not as soft as Silver Maple or Boxelder (also in the Maple family).

I could see a large, dead, Red Maple getting pretty hard. FYI, Red Maple was my primary source of wood many a year when I heated by wood, mostly because it was plentiful in the area.

Many trees get harder as they get larger, and dead wood is always harder to cut than the green stuff (the sap in green wood lubricates your cutters).

 

[jmssaws]

Red Maple, AKA Swamp Maple & Soft Maple, is usually much easier to cut than Oak or Hard (Sugar) Maple.

However, is is not as soft as Silver Maple or Boxelder (also in the Maple family).

I could see a large, dead, Red Maple getting pretty hard. FYI, Red Maple was my primary source of wood many a year when I heated by wood, mostly because it was plentiful in the area.

Many trees get harder as they get larger, and dead wood is always harder to cut than the green stuff (the sap in green wood lubricates your cutters).

A dead oak will get hard as a rock before it starts to rotate.
The big red oak I've been cutting on is hard as a horn but at least it's something to cut.

 

[X 66 stang347 X]

That oak I was cutting blew down last summer and was good and dry. It did split good with a maul when I half them.

 

[huskyboy]

Cut a 3ft standing dead ash and it was one of hardest wood I cut this year, but you notice less how hard the wood is when your using a ported 90ccsaw lol...

 

[Dub11]

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That looks like some mad. flapping?

 

[huskyboy]

I noticed standing dead trees either rot soon or get very hard and last for years standing. Must be conditions or something.

 

[jmssaws]

I noticed standing dead trees either rot soon or get very hard and last for years standing. Must be conditions or something.

When I go cut wood for the shop is look for a standing dead red oak that the bark has came off of, it will be hard and dry and burn like a sob.
To me a soft wood loads the saw better
Sappy green short leaf pine will stop one faster than a petrified oak.

 

[concretegrazer]

If I let this sit a year will it be harder?

 

[Chainsaw Jim]

Typically trees that get sick and die slowly are the ones that end up hard as iron. They don't check as they dry like a tree that's been killed all at once.

 

[jmssaws]

Typically trees that get sick and die slowly are the ones that end up hard as iron. They don't check as they dry like a tree that's been killed all at once.

Exactly.
The red oak here has took a blight and the 12 to 18" trees are standing dead everywhere.
If it stands long enough for the bark to come off and the sap ring to disappear it's real hard but fantastic firewood.
My favorite actually and it splits with ease.

 

[Coltont]

Exactly.
The red oak here has took a blight and the 12 to 18" trees are standing dead everywhere.
If it stands long enough for the bark to come off and the sap ring to disappear it's real hard but fantastic firewood.
My favorite actually and it splits with ease.

Probably oak wilt getting them.

 

[RI Chevy]

The red maple I posted here was rock hard. Dead stand for a long time. Someone topped it.
Dry as could be.

 

[jmssaws]

Probably oak wilt getting them.

Yeh it is
If it don't get them the wind does.
There won't be any left here if it don't stop.
The ash are already gone,very rare to see one.

 

[jmssaws]

The red maple I posted here was rock hard. Dead stand for a long time. Someone topped it.
Dry as could be.

Definitely different looking than the maple here.