Whats the hardest wood you ever cut?

[Stihlman441]

What like one of these.

 

[Justsaws]

Having read all sorts of threads about "flippy" caps a confused spider got all excited and went out in search of the old fashioned "screw" cap.

Spider not impressed with "screw" cap's techinque and is concerned that it may not understand modern computer lingo.

Spider just bite people from now on as horribly frustrated by like of beaver and sore from "screw" cap adventure.

 

[Chris-PA]

What like one of these.

Yeah, that's one of 'em - feel free to keep that on the other side of the world!

 

[MacLaren]

I believe that was a 660 Magnum that spider was perched on. But anyways, has anyone flown to New Zealand or Australia from the States lately? I was just wandering what it costs. I tried priceline, but no luck.

 

[madhatte]

Years-down madrone is pretty tough stuff.

 

[sachsmo]

Long down Pin Oak deserves an honerable mention.

 

[Birdhunter1]

vote #1 for dried and seasoned Black locust, #2 for green standing Black Locust, #3 Hickory.

 

[Frank Savage]

Dried, seasoned Black locust with bark and sapwood off on ground for years, from mild-temperatured slope with some water shortage but good nutrition. Sparks were flying out of the cut even from bucksaw blade. I did this way whole 1/2 cord tree, chopped it while night was coming-small fireworks under axe every stroke.

 

[tdi-rick]

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!

Yeah, that's one of 'em - feel free to keep that on the other side of the world!

Hahaha, they don't eat much, and they aren't poisonous so we tend to let them be.

You fella's have Poison Ivy, Chiggers and awful stuff that we don't have, so it evens out.

 

[tdi-rick]

I believe that was a 660 Magnum that spider was perched on. But anyways, has anyone flown to New Zealand or Australia from the States lately? I was just wandering what it costs. I tried priceline, but no luck.

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[Slamm]

I forgot about my love for the Hard Maple in Southwest Wisconsin, LOL. You could freshly sharpen a chain and go cut nice piles of powder on green/live trees, day in and day out, that was some of the hardest cutting stuff, as in it wasn't just one or two trees, but every tree all day for weeks, the stuff sucked. In those hills, the shag bark hickory wasn't much better, but it was better, I cutting shag bark hickory for the face full of bark that nails your face with each face cut, LOL, you will learn what a faceshield is for if you cut a bunch of those in a row, but I still thought the hard maple cut harder than the hickory.

I cut a nice 30" beautiful Black Locust on this bottom's job, but it didn't cut so bad, it was one of the best looking locust trees I have ever seen, but in the bottoms they grow a little faster and softer.

Osage Orange or hedge is probably the all time worst, in North America on average, some of it make you wonder if you put the chain one in the right direction, LOL.

Sam

 

[oscar4883]

In North East PA Sugar Maple and Beech are some of the hardest we get into on a regular basis. Shagbark Hickory is up there too.

 

[lspmmp]

Hop Hornbeam, also known as Ironwood. I've seen sparks come off my chain while cutting this wood.

I've also seen some stuff out west in Idaho called Mountain Mahogany that is a small shrub that grows on the rock walls in super dry canyons. It doesn't float and you can polish it up like glass. Really heavy and beautiful stuff.

 

[procarbine2k1]

I believe that was a 660 Magnum that spider was perched on. But anyways, has anyone flown to New Zealand or Australia from the States lately? I was just wandering what it costs. I tried priceline, but no luck.

Better be flyin' your arse up here first. I got plenty of wood to cut, no need to waste your money cutting it down there! haha

 

[MacLaren]

Better be flyin' your arse up here first. I got plenty of wood to cut, no need to waste your money cutting it down there! haha

I hear ya homie! :msp_thumbsup: You know I will. Just lemme know man. But man oh man, yo just know New Zealand and Australia would be the trip of a lifetime! :msp_w00t:

 

[procarbine2k1]

I hear ya homie! :msp_thumbsup: You know I will. Just lemme know man. But man oh man, yo just know New Zealand and Australia would be the trip of a lifetime! :msp_w00t:

Better be buyin two tickets then!

 

[Slamm]

In North East PA Sugar Maple and Beech are some of the hardest we get into on a regular basis. Shagbark Hickory is up there too.

Yeah, I think the Hard/Sugar Maple and Shag Bark Hickory are probably the two hardest, that actually gets cut a lot in logging operations on average, certainly for the midwest. Oak is hard, but its honest or easily tooled, as I read it once on here.

I have actually cut quite a few persimmon trees and they are hard, they use to make golf club heads out of them, but again, its a novelty wood.

The whole sparks off the chain really isn't a good indicator of hardness, because you can cut soft as cottonwood River Birch and get all the sparks in the world, because it pulls up a lot of mineral, but that doesn't make it hard per say.

Sam

 

[MacLaren]

Better be buyin two tickets then!

I really would like to go one day. I had a friend on the chain gang, his son studied agriculture in college and got to go to New Zealand one summer and loved it. Said it was truly amazing.
Seriously mang, let me know when ya wanna GTG up there. I can get a trip lined up to Canton about anytime.

 

[2strokenut]

Dried, seasoned ionebark would be the hardest Ive ever cut

 

[cjnspecial]

I cut some old live oak that had been down for 10-15 years. Full chisel chains were no match and I had to grab some sem-chisel.