Saw video thread

[RI Chevy]

To be honest, I am not exactly sure. I cut one 2 years ago that was slightly larger, and the arborist told me it was a red maple.
This tree was the exact same tree, except this was dead stand. Had the English Ivy growing all over it.

 

[Coltont]

Definitely different looking than the maple here.

Soft maple, with a ring of shake.

 

[RI Chevy]

There was nothing soft with this wood.

 

[Coltont]

There was nothing soft with this wood.

That's what she said.

 

[jmssaws]

Soft maple, with a ring of shake.

Soft maple I know is slick barked and stays in the creek bottoms.
Hard maple is ruff barked but don't look like that here.
The wood in both are more white and the hard maple is white with a dark center.
There's all kinds but that one ain't around here that I've seen.

 

[RI Chevy]

Indigenous to the Northeast.

https://www.arborday.org/trees/treeguide/treedetail.cfm?itemID=867

 

[jmssaws]

To be honest, I am not exactly sure. I cut one 2 years ago that was slightly larger, and the arborist told me it was a red maple.
This tree was the exact same tree, except this was dead stand. Had the English Ivy growing all over it.

Ive never heard of a red maple but that don't mean anything.
I've never heard about anything I've never heard of before.

 

[huskyboy]

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.

I was just gonna mention I think pine loads a saw more than hardwood for some reason. I was milling a white pine last year and it was easier to stall out my torquey 930 in than some hardwood.

 

[huskyboy]

 

[MustangMike]

I have seen a lot of variations in various Maple, even just around here. A lot of the Red Maple will often have a brown center, and Hard Maple is sometime very White and sometimes Cream Colored.

Also, the bark changes with the age of the tree. Sometimes it is very difficult to tell what is what w/o the leaves.

In the Fall, when I walk the dogs, I can determine which tree is which as the leaves turn, and I have seen bark on Red Maple that looks almost just like the bark on the Sugar Maple next to it.

 

[huskyboy]

I have seen a lot of variations in various Maple, even just around here. A lot of the Red Maple will often have a brown center, and Hard Maple is sometime very White and sometimes Cream Colored.

Also, the bark changes with the age of the tree. Sometimes it is very difficult to tell what is what w/o the leaves.

In the Fall, when I walk the dogs, I can determine which tree is which as the leaves turn, and I have seen bark on Red Maple that looks almost just like the bark on the Sugar Maple next to it.

I bet growing conditions have something to do with it.

 

[jmssaws]

I was just gonna mention I think pine loads a saw more than hardwood for some reason. I was milling a white pine last year and it was easier to stall out my torquey 930 in than some hardwood.

Blocking it with your chain right it's fast but takes power to be fast in it.
I have acres of white and yellow pine
Right now the sap is up and that makes it hard to keep chips flowing.

 

[mdavlee]

The pine we were cutting the other day was spraying us it was so full of sap

 

[jmssaws]

Here's my old saw Beatrice.
First cut after complete rebuild and porting

 

[huskyboy]

Here's my old saw Beatrice.
First cut after complete rebuild and porting

Why's it named Beatrice?

 

[MustangMike]

The White Pine I cut in upstate NY a few years ago made a mess of my saw, but the saw ate through it like it was paper mache (with square file chain). In fact, it embarrassed the guy with the 066 that told me his saw was not stock, both saws with 24" bars. I think the 066 just had a small muff mod, and a crummy chain, but he was a "pro" tree guy!

A lot of people falsely think a large power head will make up for a crappy chain, but it is just the opposite, a good chain will make a smaller power head look great!

 

[TreeLife]

"They're always women's names, so no one is the wiser"

Tell me what film that quote is from @huskyboy

 

[jmssaws]

Why's it named Beatrice?

Me and this saw have time in,it seems like a Beatrice to me so that's what she is.
It's the saw I have had over half of my life.
Actually it's not because I've replaced everything 10 times ,the real saw is in peices here and there throughoutthe shop.
I sold "Beatrice" yesterday but I'll gather up the real one and build her again.

 

[jmssaws]

 

[huskyboy]

"They're always women's names, so no one is the wiser"

Tell me what film that quote is from @huskyboy

Not sure, what movie?