They say it's oak- Tree ID Plesase

Down 2 years, is the claim, but water comes out when driving wedge. They sat it's oak. I filled my truck, but I dont think it's oak. The bark kinda looks like pine to me, but a Bing search of the address, 223 Daffodil dr Fairfield, Ca, is definitely not a pine.
http://www.bing.com/maps/?FORM=Z9LH...4MTgxMjA3OTY2NTIlN2UtMTIyLjAzODM0NDczOTYyNg==
Click bird's eye view and zoom in.
It split easiy with a wedge, easy to cut. It is light weight like pine, bark looks like pine. That is the house with the huge trunk still there, its not a pine tree in the Bing map. I really need to get better at tree ID. There were a few oak suckers around, but not around the trunk area. The bark on the rounds was easily falling off as I split the rounds. I thought it was full of staples, but the wood had barbs sticking out of the wood, under the bark(last pic is a split, bark removed) I've never seen that on an oak before, or any tree I am familiar with. I'm sure they told me it was oak just to get me to show up. If it really was oak, the easy rounds I did take would not have been there after 2 days, much less 2 years!

The thorns are what is underneath the pine looking bark. It looks lik pine on the ground. The map is good enough to see it was not a pine, but not identify. Seems to split easy enough, kindling probably best for whatever it is.

I considered cottonwood, maybe? I am not familiar with it. Does cottonwood have those type of thorns under the bark? I had a cottonwood scrounge close to home, researched it's firewood qualities and passed on the chance. I read cottonwood was hard to split, this was easy to split. The hard to season qualities seem to fit, still wet after 2 years, and it can grow into a a large tree, Being easy to split doesn't match. No other cottonwoods in the area,. A tree that large would surely reproduce. I have no idea myself, just guessing along. The aerial in the Bing map, and the thorns on the split are all I have to go on, the homeowner swears it is oak, NOT!

No, the thorns are from a split of this stuff. All of it has thorns under the bark. So, all I got to do is find out if cottonwood has these thorns under it's bark.

What about the thorns? Does cottonwood have thorns under it's bark? Lady said it was oak, so I drove 65 miles to go get some. I was a bit disappointed when I got there, LOL. At least I got a truck load of kindling.