Trees and Green Wood Working 

Clear and easily understood. Thanks.

New tattoos are awesome Dave

Thank you, this is a topic many people don't talk about. You should show some examples of leaves and barks for each so we can notice them in the wilderness.

Great video Mr. Canterbury thank you for your greatly instructional content.

Black gum and sweet gum are often overlooked Eastern species An axe somewhat bounces off the end cut. We used that wood for heavy pounding tools.

Im learning a lot about trees with these videos, thanks Dave

Excellent video Dave, Don't sweat these "arm chair know it alls" making comments. Glad to see you back to making videos. I hope life is treating you and yours well. Johnny in Texas

hey Dave. thank you for your informative videos. You are a great Teacher. Respectfully yours G Malise

You know, you're probably one of the best lecturers I've listened to. Great video.

I'm on board. Learning alot with this.

Awesome video as usual Dave! I am excited for this new series and to gain more perspective. Thank you for the gift of knowledge!

Great video Dave, love the bush-craft education I can get during my lunch break! Keep up the good work!

I envy the variety of trees you have in the States. Mostly Ash and Pine here in Ireland. Very few Oak trees around. Liking these vids Dave, thanks for sharing

This is a great topic. Thank you!

Way to go champ. Keep up the great presentations.

Just what I needed. Thanks.

Birch is a decent easy working hard wood, fits into the medium hardness category, makes great spoons and bowls.also... Boreal forest axe handle wood. A little out of the eastern woodland, but close. Balsam fir is a great soft wood for bow drill wood hearth and spindle. Looks like a good series coming up.

Thanks so much for all your great videos, I'm learning a lot . Keep it up...

Shaping up to be a real good series!!

what you think about working with dogwood? I know its extremely hard wood and difficult to find straight pieces but it sure seems to end with a beautiful finished product?

knowledge is power. Thanks for another great video!

Hi Dave. I live in Cleveland here in northeast Ohio, and there are a lot of maple trees growing in most of the areas and outlying parks. Apart from the fact that shop class determined it to be a hard wood I don't know much about it. So my questions are, how much different is the ecology between here and where you are referring to, for the most part, in southeast Ohio? Which level of hardness would say, silver maple fit into in this comparison?

Dave, good video and generalization / simplification. Much more useful than a botany class. I had a thought that you might consider a video on simple maple sugaring if you have maples or hickories around where you film. I picked up some taps and dove in with minimal everything and it turned out good.

Oh now I get it!!! You're left handed. Awesome videos man. Learning lots. :)

We have elm, juniper, maple, pine, scrub oaks, locust, ash(?) grows near creeks like the cottonwood, dogwood, yew. Where do they fit in as soft to hard?

As an American Bodger wannabe. Thanks for the vid. Great info.

Good to know stuff in particular the stuff about Black Walnut.

Great information thanks for sharing.

You are a very interesting fellow. Thanks for sharing the knowledge.

I have a bunch of Black Locus trees on my property are they good for anything except intimidation just wondering

I love it. I will have to do more research on trees around my area since all I got is conifirs and a small percentage of hard woods. I think Rocky Mountain maple.

Dave got a question for you on the wood on the trees. What about maple Curly Maple and and the regular Maple. Would it be classified as hardwoods too or am I wrong? Elm trees are they hardwood or what

great vid! I learned a lot today!

Jsut out of curiousity: Has anyone tried a Bahco Curved Wrecking Knife? I thought of that one when Dave mentioned not hitting the back of the tool with metal, since that one at least seems that it CAN be reliably used with a hammer. It's a regular knife, just very solid.

***** Dave I don't have many of the other harder wood but do have tons of maple, which I always considered a harder wood at least in terms of burning. Is Maple hard enough for handles? Thanks.

All the ash trees in southern Ontario are dying on account of the emerald ash borer. Soon we'll have to rely on oak and black cherry, where I live, for the most part.

another top notch video, and is that a '40's hot rod ir tractor behind you? I could not tell in the past couple of vids, the front tires look like a car or trucks.

Poplar is a hardwood actually, but that designation doesn't always indicate that it is physically "soft" or "hard ." You have to be a little careful using those words if you want to be technically accurate.

What wood would be best for å walking staff? Here in Scandinavia we have beerch, oak and ash to name a few . What would be your choice, and why?

Where is maple that is a great wood that grows everywhere i use it for everything it has lots of uses such as making sugar and is an edible great video!

Plenty of black walnut. Sassafras is extremely rare here......popular is considered a hardwood in carpentry construction and wood working.

Larch is a perfect example of an exception to conifers.

Looking forward to the rest of this series. Don't feel like you're rambling or repeating, keep shooting out information it all sinks in! I've got an old broad axe just like the little one in your first video of the series, mine has a Hults Bruk stamp in it but I can't find any information on it. I've been restoring it in a series on another channel of mine and am at a standstill trying to learn what the original handle might have looked like. Mine is single bevel (or was, until someone crudely ground it incorrectly) do you think that, because of the shape of the head and eye, it might have been designed to be hung either way in order to choose a left- or right-handed use? It's almost exactly the same shape as your carving hatchet.

I love ur video s bro I lernd alot from u Thanx

Many of your videos are not very useful for the coniferous forests western Canada. What are some substitutes for the Northwest Coast? In most places the only trees available are Douglas Fir and Spruce at higher elevation. For example, Is it more difficult or even possible to build a bow drills? Toolmaking?

surprised no mention of maples esp in the med hard catagory excellent all around wood in my opinion and very widespread

mr. canterberry, let me start off by saying i dont know shit about shit. but i was watching another video and one of the guys said that Aspen is a great wood for bowls and spoons because of the grain of the wood? something about pine being long and stringy therefore it splinters a lot. but aspen is short tight grains so it would be a an ideal choice for spoons and the like. like i said i dont know shit about shit but maybe a little food for thought, when I can afford it i am looking forward to coming to your classes, from watching your videos i can tell you are a great teacher

Funny how my father is a ranger but never gave me proper lessons on green wood, so thanks!

Is that a Ford 8N tractor?

Outstanding

I would like school if we learned this kind of stuff

good info

i'd venture to say the hard wood conifer would be of the cypress family.

Thx

I have not seen some of these trees you mentioned, I would appreciate some guidelines how to identify some of them. :-) (you might already have had that in mind though) :-)

I made a walking stick out of a black walnut. I still have the walking stick. Looks like it will be in good order long after I am dead.

every time he writes on the white board I feel like I have to take note

Woah he's the Dude!

woooooow first comment. love the videos Dave keep it up man.

Neat.

ash trees are dieing in the eastern woodland.

what about Oklahoma

791 views and I'm the first comment? Wow, very strange.

dave do you know of anyone that has broken down all the trees in the continental US and placed them in a quick reference/flash card type of way giving hardness and pros and cons? might be a good thing to have in your pack given the number of different trees out there.