Trees you've cut

[MustangMike]

Yes, Red Maple and Silver Maple are both soft Maple, Norway and Sugar are much harder.

Red Maple AKA Swamp Maple.

 

[Deets066]

I've got a bunch of sugar maple here. It's definitely harder than soft maple.

 

[huskihl]

Yes, Red Maple and Silver Maple are both soft Maple, Norway and Sugar are much harder.

Red Maple AKA Swamp Maple.

I'd agree. They like wetter ground

 

[RI Chevy]

The wood has dried for 3 years under a lean-to. Hard as hell right now. Lol
Burns great too. [emoji106]

 

[RI Chevy]

The white maple around me is called hard rock maple. Makes great furniture.

 

[Al Smith]

That comment about dead ash is you file about every tank of fuel. Shagbark live is not bad,dead about like concrete.Dead Ohio beech is the hardest stuff I ever got into ,it's like reinforced concrete .E Copsey had a petrified beech log at a GTG that nearly stalled everything that attempted to cut it including an 090 Stihl .It dulled the chain on one of my 125 Macs in one cut .

 

[RI Chevy]

Wow. Weird hard wood. Definitely gotta cut them green, not dead.

 

[huskihl]

Some of the ash around aren't really hard, but they will dull a chain quick. I think they drag sand up as they grow. It's about like cutting a roadside tree that's had ice control sand plowed into it for 50 years

 

[Al Smith]

Now this maple business .From what I gather the Canadians call sugar maple "rock maple .Now we have sugar maple in Ohio,lots of them .I have a couple 80 footers in my woods about 30 inches in diameter .I don't find it all that hard but then again I've never cut a dead one.The only ones were nuisance trees live .The things live forever ,I'm not certain I've ever seen a dead standing .

The lumber is hard I'll give it that .Fact they make bowling alleys from the stuff .For that matter the largest producer of bowling alley maple in the world is about 25 miles to the south of me .

 

[Al Smith]

While I'm on a roll here's another thing .Ash cut green is dream to split with an axe .Try that on about a 16" round on EAB killed ash .--concrete ---

 

[RI Chevy]

Lol. True Al. That's why I split all my wood when it is green. [emoji106]

 

[MustangMike]

Bowing alleys and Gym floors. I also made some wheelbarrow handles out of it. Very solid stuff!

 

[Marshy]

Here's a teaser. PVC pipe is 5' long. I guess he was right, it is going to be a 5' stump.

If he thinks I'm going to flush cut it he's nuts. I should probably ask for some money.

 

[RI Chevy]

Lol. Big tree!

 

[fearofpavement]

On trees with a lot of flares, I cut those off before I fell it as shown in this picture. If they're low enough for it to be felled easily by cutting above, I'd do that but often they're intruding into the height I want to make the felling cut at. And because I cut trees in residential areas, something has to be done about them anyway.

 

[RI Chevy]

Good tip! Thank you for that. Cuts down a few inches here and there all around the tree.

 

[fearofpavement]

Flares extending into the felling cut area can complicate the face cut, back cut and hinge considerations. It's easier to just deal with them ahead of time. At least that's the way I do it.

 

[jakethesnake]

Good input there fear of pavement. I've seen some of that in your pictures here and there. Makes sense.

 

[junkman]

Or cut em chest high like the left coast guys do . Get to far down to the ground the fibers are compressed more ,making it more difficult to cut the wood .Up a little higher the wood cuts easier .At least on the stuff i cut it does .

 

[RI Chevy]

Lol. I generally cut about 3 to 4 feet above ground, fall the tree, then go back and make another cut close to the ground and stump it.
I will try this next time I have a tree like this. [emoji106]