On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 19:03:27 -0700 (PDT), Pavel314
wrote:

I cut down two trees in the sheep pasture back in January, an oak and a beech, and finally got around to sawing them into firewood logs this weekend. It seemed to me that the beech wood was much harder to cut than the oak. Has anyone had experience in sawing beech wood?


Beech has a finer grain, denser than oak and is harder to cut. I've
never cut down a Beech tree so I don't have first hand experience for
comparison.. It is good for steam bending too, when cut to thinner
strips.