Whats the hardest wood you ever cut?

[Winchester356]

Cut up some sycamore seemed to dull the chain faster than locust, I always thought of it as a softwood but this was not but it was real dry may have contributed to the difficulty and it is almost impossible to split with a axe.

 

[Bob Wright]

Locust here also...Bob

 

[NORMZILLA44]

Eaucalyptus.

 

[procarbine2k1]

Hop Hornbeam (Ironwood), seasoned Locust, I've had some Hickory give me a run too... Seasoned Locust has probably been the hardest.

 

[Evan]

dry seasond fir is hard as rock

 

[Sport Faller]

dry seasond fir is hard as rock

nah man, that was just the stuff that you drug down the hillslide for 300' with cable and then bucked

those little pebbles get in every damn weather check possible

 

[jus2fat]

Fallen and dried out locust for me...like cutting concrete..!!

J2F

 

[NORMZILLA44]

I have cut some tough black walnut. Especially one that hand eglish grafted to to it. I cut around the grafting point it was tough. I think Euc still is the vote for me, but some of the big walnut was close.

 

[paccity]

my wood is harder than your wood.:hmm3grin2orange::msp_unsure::bang:

 

[Slamm]

Black Locust and for day in and day out hardness, a good hillside, shag bark hickory is hard on a saw.
Sam

 

[ratso]

I once cut a huge oak that had barbwire and lag bolts,this was a chain killer.Manzanita can be tough.

 

[Evan]

Its very hard

 

[ridecaptain]

Standing dead Wateroak will throw sparks.Tried it once,didn't go 1 inch before chain was ruined.

 

[Freehand]

Osage Orange,Black Locust,and Ironwood come to mind.The Aussies always win on this topic though.:msp_mellow:

 

[Andyshine77]

Osage orange, Locust, Hickory, Beech. Sycamore is harder than say White poplar but much less dense than any of the truly hard woods like I listed. Sycamore is hard to split because it grows spirally not because it's dense or hard.

 

[hitechredneck]

Old southern dogwood trees..likey considered soft for alot of folks here..

 

[Evan]

What about that super hard blue gum. Don't you need a carbide chain?

 

[darkside's call]

hardest wood I've cut was an old white oak that had been dead for about 2-3 years, then fell in the creek during a minor flood. when I cut it the next summer it went thru all 4 of my chains in the first half dozen cuts, and had to resharpen after every cut after that. It was a royal PITA to split too, but got it all cut, pulled up the bank, split and stacked in one very tough day!

I did factor possible sand/rock into the deal and stripped the bark at each cut point prior to cutting...

 

[MacLaren]

That danged seasoned locust comes to my mind. Or shag bark hickory-seasoned as well.

 

[indiansprings]

In my area seasoned hedge(osage orange, bodark) is by far the hardest we've cut. I hate cutting it, it is the great chainsaw equalizer. Seasoned dog wood is also hard, they used to use it for fence post years ago in my area.