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D8Chumley

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Jun 25, 2013
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Collegeville PA
Foreman said this is piss oak. Grain is pretty wide on the big stuff but tight on the limbs. Smells like oak when I cut it, hoping it's not some kinda crap. Joful now I know how you feel messing with this big stuff ;)
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Dang I forgot to turn the phone when I took the pics, sorry. The ol' F150 did pretty well pulling that load, the trailer itself weighs over 3k lbs and I'm only legal to tow 9300 with the truck. I'd say I was darn close
 
That's what I was hoping to hear. We loaded the main trunk on my buddies gooseneck, he is going to see if he can get something at the sawmill for it. I'm waiting for him to let me know what it was across, I'm guessing it's at least 40" since his trailer is 102" wide.
 
I have a pin in my yard and it's not quite the same but then again I haven't cut down my pin either haha. Either way it seems its oak so I say SCORE! I got paid for working today to take it down also so double score
 
It was 44" across at the notch. Biggest I've ever messed with
 
Hate to go against you guys, but it doesn't look like oak to me.
 
Hate to go against you guys, but it doesn't look like oak to me.
What are ya thinking? I'm not sure that's why I'm asking. Smells oak-ish, but I'm not good at the ID except the few trees on my property. The few limbs that split when we felled it kinda reminded me of the hackberry blowdown i split last winter, that kind of grain. I'll split a piece tonight and see, if it helps
 
I'd say red maple.

Nrford?
 
It was in a future parking lot in the middle of a job we are doing. Leaves are long gone. The builder was trying to save it but it was in the way of a pipe run so it had to go. The guy that did the clearing gave us a price of 5k to come back and do it but we fortunately have guys willing to take the wood. We notched it and I pushed it over with a track hoe
 
My buddy with the trunk on the gooseneck said the guy from the sawmill came and looked at it. Said its pin oak, offered .50/bf. He said if it were white he'd give 2-3.00 a board foot. My buddy is gonna make firewood out of it. Are we good with pin oak, final answer? Lol I'm assuming all oak is still 3 years to season, so I'll get it split asap and start the clock
 
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Well my curiosity got the better of me, so I took a stroll to the pin oak in my yard. Bark is the same, but mine is really tall and has a lot of little branches sticking out of the trunk from like 5' and up, maybe 50' tall. The one we cut was maybe 40' but it was bushier. I'm assuming mine is like that since its growing in competition for sunlight with a lot of tall ash around it
 
Yeah I wasn't thinking when I took them. If I click on one of the pics then scroll through them they are all upright on my ipad
 
visible Medullary Rays
Yeah, I see what you're talking about in the fourth pic. And it's hard to go against the "mill guy," but not much else there looks like Pin Oak I've seen here (I haven't seen all that much of it though.) Branches are droopy, not shooting up like that, and the bark and wood don't look right. D8Chumley, can you get a split pic on a couple of different-sized rounds?
 
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Yeah, I see what you're talking about in pic. And it's hard to go against the "mill guy," but not much else there looks like Pin Oak I've seen here (I haven't seen all that much of it though.) Branches are droopy, not shooting up like that, and the bark and wood don't look right. D8Chumley, can you get a split pic on a couple of different-sized rounds?

I would say it's nearly impossible to go against the person that works at the mill.
 
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Pin oak is good enough for me. Has a lot of sapwood for sure. That first pic of the branching of the upper tree is right on for pin oak. The pin oak lawn trees are all dying around here with that wasp gall parasite.
 
I don't see the medullary Rays. Maple!
 
Sorry. I re-read the posts and if a sawmill guy says its Pin oak it surely is. The bark does look correct for Pin Oak.
 
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