Pavel314 wrote in
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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?

Yes, I have. It's much harder to cut than oak. But you already knew that. g

I guess you really meant to ask, is that *normal*? Is that something you *should* be
experiencing, something you should expect?

Yes, it is.

Most North American oaks, and American beech, are of roughly similar hardness. But in my
experience, beech is much *tougher*: the grain of the wood is much finer, and it often
interlocks, making it difficult to saw. Oak has a coarse, open grain, and although hard, it
saws easily. That is not true of beech.