Red Oak?

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hareball

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Jersey shore/pines
Red Oak I think?
 

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I agree it is oak. Can't see the bark so I am not sure how to tell which oak. looks like Chestnut Oak to me.
 
I agree and it splits like butter. good luck
 
Thanks guys!
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Smell like vinegary wine when split? If not, not red oak....
 
CarbonNeutral said:
Smell like vinegary wine when split? If not, not red oak....
Actually not much of an odor compared to the red oak I usually split. It was in with a load of red oak though but looked different.
 
I have pounded on a whole lot of red oak and none of it ever looked like that. Always even color to within an inch of the bark. And keeps that characteristic smell for a long time.
 
BrotherBart said:
I have pounded on a whole lot of red oak and none of it ever looked like that. Always even color to within an inch of the bark. And keeps that characteristic smell for a long time.

I agree, definitely not oak. I think it looks like a variety of hickory. Bitternut or pignut. Wide expanse of light sap wood, irregular brownish heartwood. Grain doesn't look right at all for oak, and no medullary rays (look like light-colored spokes coming out from the center). All species of oak have pronounced rays. Not sure about the bark, however.
 
In my humble opinion its definately not red oak. Not sure what it is but all the red oak i've ever split never looked like that. I'm with Brotherbart on the characteristics. I've been wrong before though.
 
I will stick with red oak.
 
hareball said:
CarbonNeutral said:
Smell like vinegary wine when split? If not, not red oak....
Actually not much of an odor compared to the red oak I usually split. It was in with a load of red oak though but looked different.

I've beat on a lot of red oak too, (there are a lot of red oak species, though) and there is no walnut around here, but that heartwood looks awful chocolaty black walnutty to me.
 
A few more shots of a different split.
 

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Unless it's spalted, I've never seen red oak that looks like that around here
 
Its one of the red oak group with heartwood damage and the early stage of rot. Thats what makes for the dark center. Z
 
Zimm said:
Its one of the red oak group with heartwood damage and the early stage of rot. Thats what makes for the dark center. Z


+1

definitely oak and not white oak, that's staining in the center. Barbed wire makes the same color, but this looks like the whole center is stained. Maybe black oak, was this growing in a sandy area? Walnut will have a pith in the center and a clear boundary between the heartwood and sapwood.
 
benjamin said:
Zimm said:
Its one of the red oak group with heartwood damage and the early stage of rot. Thats what makes for the dark center. Z


+1

was this growing in a sandy area?

My scrounger picked it up along with red and white oak. It came from an area off the side of the Garden State Parkway where there is construction. There is a good chance it was a sandy area
 
hareball said:
A few more shots of a different split.

I think i'm going to change my answer and this stuff may be red oak in the beginning stages of rot. Bark and grain looks more like oak in these pictures then the other one. Rot might explain the lack of the distinct "oak smell".
 
04RevX said:
hareball said:
A few more shots of a different split.

I think i'm going to change my answer and this stuff may be red oak in the beginning stages of rot. Bark and grain looks more like oak in these pictures then the other one. Rot might explain the lack of the distinct "oak smell".






Know red oak! and a 28in. bar on that saw!
 

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