Whats the hardest wood you ever cut?

[wooddog 066]

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IMO the roughest wood i ever cut i would have to saw "elm" just so damn hard and stringy when ya split it!!

 

[tdi-rick]

The different Box trees and redgums sure are hard to cut, but they are soft as after cutting Brigalow and Gidgee.

FWIW, I found with cutting these harder type of wood that a slow steady chain speed is required, the wood seems to "glass up" with the faster chain speeds.

Cheers
Will

Hey Will, ever had the pleasure of smelling Gidgee when it's flowering ?

Mum's told me about it, (she's lived in the Territory for the last twenty years) and reckons you can smell it from over 10km away :msp_ohmy:

 

[J.W Younger]

Standing dead hickory, if it ain't standing its rotten or just fell. Green, probabley dogwood.

 

[MCW]

All the Aussies have been talking about the eucalyptus they cut

They know better than to try and cut up our acacias

Janka Hardness In Pounds Of Force {lbf}
{Acacia peuce} Waddy Wood 4500 - Specific Gravity 1.425
Gidgee {Acacia cambagei} 4270 - Specific Gravity 1.35
Acacia georginae} Gidgee Georgina 4270 - Specific Gravity 1.33
Acacia nigrescens} Knob Thorn 4290 - Specific Gravity 1.21
Snakewood Australian {Acacia xiphophylla} 4150
Wattle Lakewood {Acacia enervia} 4150
Brown Spearwood {Acacia rhodoxylon} 4100

Yep some of those Acacias are hard stuff for sure. Luckily they're normally little

 

[lumberjackau]

Hey Will, ever had the pleasure of smelling Gidgee when it's flowering ?

Mum's told me about it, (she's lived in the Territory for the last twenty years) and reckons you can smell it from over 10km away :msp_ohmy:

LOL, no mate never did, seemed to be out of the area when it happened. glad I missed it heard plenty about it tho.

 

[David (saltas)]

I live in the Bio-region called the Birgalow belt
'Brigalow' Acacia harpophylla grows to 25 metres high but that is big for an acacia and many don't live long Acacia Crassicarpa live about 60 months

 

[MCW]

I live in the Bio-region called the Birgalow belt
'Brigalow' Acacia harpophylla grows to 25 metres high but that is big for an acacia and many don't live long Acacia Crassicarpa live about 60 months

I dropped an Acacia at the local golf club that was pretty sizable at around a 30" trunk (not sure of spp.) but once again the higher the rainfall/water availability the softer the wood and larger the tree as a rule and this thing was getting a good gutful from the neighbouring 18th hole

5 years ain't long! I bet she don't get too big that one!

 

[huskydude]

I had to cutup a fallen maple a month ago. When I started cutting it, sparks were flying. I remember thinking WTF?
It was the first time that had happened to me. Not sure what kind of maple it was.

 

[MCW]

I had to cutup a fallen maple a month ago. When I started cutting it, sparks were flying. I remember thinking WTF?
It was the first time that had happened to me. Not sure what kind of maple it was.

Sparks when cutting wood are never a good sign Normally it means I've stuck the tip into a rock or something

 

[rob066]

#1 is dry locust and #2 is frozen shagbark hickory I also got into a batch of dry white oaks that were brutal.

 

[billyj]

not 100% sure what kind of wood(think it may have been box) it was but the hardest wood ive ever cut was a 30" log at the zoo here only had to notch about 4 inches off the side of it for about a foot but it took at least 6 sharpenings, to get the job done. that said this log had been in place for about 10 years and was bone dry and had had kids climbing all over it for the whole time, even managed to rip all the teeth of a tct power saw blade on a different part of the same log

 

[MCW]

not 100% sure what kind of wood(think it may have been box) it was but the hardest wood ive ever cut was a 30" log at the zoo here only had to notch about 4 inches off the side of it for about a foot but it took at least 6 sharpenings, to get the job done. that said this log had been in place for about 10 years and was bone dry and had had kids climbing all over it for the whole time, even managed to rip all the teeth of a tct power saw blade on a different part of the same log

Yep. Kid germs are responsible for all sorts of atrocities.

 

[Stihlman441]

Im laughing inside thinking about this thread.:biggrin:
Today i was cutting some dry spotted gum and when you start your cut and it skids sideways then you know its going to be hard.:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[MCW]

Im laughing inside thinking about this thread.:biggrin:
Today i was cutting some dry spotted gum and when you start your cut and it skids sideways then you know its going to be hard.:hmm3grin2orange:

Could be because you were holding a beer in your other hand Andrew

 

[Stihlman441]

Could be because you were holding a beer in your other hand Andrew

I did have that feeling today that someone was watching me

I took both jack russles today,that wont be happing again they went missing (chasing rabbits) after a couple of hrs one came back but couldnt find the other prick,i had to go to work but the farming rang just after dark he was sitting at his back door mat.:msp_smile:

 

[huskydude]

I had to cutup a fallen maple a month ago. When I started cutting it, sparks were flying. I remember thinking WTF?
It was the first time that had happened to me. Not sure what kind of maple it was.

I kept looking for a nail!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Slamm]

I did have that feeling today that someone was watching me

I took both jack russles today,that wont be happing again they went missing (chasing rabbits) after a couple of hrs one came back but couldnt find the other prick,i had to go to work but the farming rang just after dark he was sitting at his back door mat.:msp_smile:

I know what you mean there. If I take my patterdale logging, we end up coon hunting after about 30 minutes or digging him out of a hole somewhere. You can't take (good) terriers anywhere and expect to get anything you originally started out to complete, done.

I had a female once that would sit and watch you cut trees over from the proper, back side, as the tree was going over she would then run into the hole of any that were hollow, because once she found a possum in one, as in you would have to watch that she didn't run into the spinning chain if/when you were boring out of the backside. How she never got knocked out from when the tree landed I'll never know, but she ran into and rode every hollow tree to the ground.

Do you have wild hogs where you live? I bet your terriers go after them too, LOL.

Sam

 

[Hank Chinaski]

soft pine on a concrete slab.

some reason or 'nother it just kept getting harder and harder to cut through... :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Chris-PA]

Black locust for me, but you guys down under have to deal with all sorts of mutant things, both plant and animal, that I'm thankful don't live here!

 

[MCW]

Black locust for me, but you guys down under have to deal with all sorts of mutant things, both plant and animal, that I'm thankful don't live here!

Yes nature has a hard time explaining a few of the other Australian members here.