Is this sequoia redwood?? Saws sure went through it like butter today. Cut to 101” long and milled 6x9 mantel beams, 6x10 with live edge and a 6x12. used the whole 40” cutting capacity 
Milling redwood
- Thread starter motolife313
- Start date
Help Support Arborist Forum:
All came out pretty straight and nice looking. 
The redwoods I have cut here in New Zealand have had thicker bark than that, especially at the base. The heartwood of the barels were also "redder", more like the colour where the limbs have been taken off or the board in the first pic. The foliage looks very similar though & it cuts like butter as you describe
Neighbor told me it was planted in the mid 80’s so maybe that’s why the bark ain’t too thick yet. Any idea what kind of cedar it could be if it ain’t sequoia?
Well I hope so since I’m finding it’s a very prized type of cedar. I’m thinking the port orford is too light of color tho compared to this stuff. I should have grabbed a branch of it
The wood actually turned more red yesterday. The wood is extremely soft too and dents super easy
The wood sure looks more like Cedar than Redwood. Aren’t Sequoias found further south?
Sierra_rider
Piss revver
The bark thickness is exceptionally thin for a red, but the needles are definitely coast redwood. Giant Sequoia has much longer needles than Coast Redwood. The heart wood is usually redder, but there are different variations with redwood depending on where/how it grew.
Very wide growth rings too, but they grow fast with ample water and not having to compete against other trees. I climbed/cut one at my jobsite that had tapped into a water leak...only about 50' years old, but 4' across.
Sequoias are inland, on the west slope of the Sierra's...isolated in just a few areas at that. Coast Redwood grows naturally on the central to northern coast of Cali. However, coast redwood gets planted everywhere as an ornamental tree, so not surprised to see it in another state.
Similar threads
