Hardwood for outdoors

[Mark Woodmark]

Other than Cedar, Redwood, and Teak, what are good hardwoods to use for stuff that will be outdoors such as lawn ornaments, bird feeders, lawn furniture, etc

[Michael Weber]

White Oak is supposed to be durable outside because of it's grain structure. don't use red oak though.

[Lee Schierer]

White Oak and Black Locust do quite well outdoors. Locust fence posts last for many years. Hemlock and Cypress, though not hardwoods, also do well in the outdoors.

[Don Jarvie]

Mahogany - Lots of porch railsing made from it around here.

[Brent Ring]

Ipe' weathers well!

[Rob Fisher]

I'll add to the list:

Osage Orange

Rob

[Chris Padilla]

Milk Jug (plastic) wood! :D

[Victor Robinson]

Love me some ipe! Hard on the cutters/blades though.

[Ted Calver]

Add Cypress to the list

[travis howe]

How's alder?

[Howard Acheson]

Other than Cedar, Redwood, and Teak, what are good hardwoods to use for stuff that will be outdoors such as lawn ornaments, bird feeders, lawn furniture, etc

Go to the following: http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/fplgtr/fplgtr113/ch03.pdf.

Look at table 3-10 on page 18. It lists the decay resistance of domestic and imported woods.

[Howard Acheson]

How's alder?

Very poor.

[Neal Clayton]

whichever you use, adding boric acid before paint will drastically improve mold/mildew/rot resistance as well as adding termite resistance. won't harm any finish.

http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:RHXLIipLyzkJ:www.rnr.lsu.edu/wu/PDFFiles/Decay%2520and%2520mold%2520Paper%2520IRG34.pdf+cyp ress+mold+resistance&hl=en&gl=us

a product called 'bora-care' is what i use.

[Van Huskey]

My favorite woods for outdoors wear wise are Locust, Cypress and Ipe and the others that are sold as Ipe