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Oh yeah, this is what I got today off of state land before I received the phone call telling me not to cut. Can someone please ID it. Me being a carpenter I have a small edge IDing most of scrounge so far. I guess I have been just lucky and getting species I recognize so far. Know idea on this one though. It has a very destint smell to it. Not quite bad but not quite nice either.

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I should probably know this, but what are these little beasts?
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I'd say those pics are Red/Black Oak (you can barely see the medullary rays on the end grain in pic 1) with the common grubworms of some sort that loves tunneling into the inner bark & sapwood in pic 5.
 
Red oak is my guess...
 
I agree that it is red or Black Oak. The wood is basically the same. The grubs are some sort of beetle, I think. Common under bark, nothing to worry about. I have seen them frequently in wood when I collect it, but they grow up and leave home long before the wood is seasoned.
 
That smell is the unforgettable sent of freshly split Red Oak. You won't have trouble recognizing it again.
My wife says it stinks. I say it smells like free heat, mixed with a dash of cat piss. :)
There's a bizzilion species of Red Oak. In some areas they are called Black Oaks too. Doesn't matter, they are great burning and slow drying.

Good score, but doesn't count if you don't have permission...
 
red oak and red oak borer beetle grubs
or a bark grub of some sort. quite common on the bark grubs with a down tree.
 
easy one!
 
Without a doubt...red oak...the most prevalent scrounge around here on the Island. And the 'free heat,with a hint of cat piss" is dead-on. You definitely get used to it. You will LOVE that wood in the '12-'13 burning season....dont bother burning it next year - it wont burn right and you'll waste alot of those free BTU's.
 
More of the bad smelling red oaks! I've said it before and will say it again; red oak has a nice smell to it. Very little wood has a bad smell; cottonwood, willow and elm comes to mind there...
 
And I rather like the smell of Elm. To each his own. The only problem I have with the smell of fresh split Elm is that it means I must be splitting Elm. :long:
 
midwestcoast said:
And I rather like the smell of Elm. To each his own. The only problem I have with the smell of fresh split Elm is that it means I must be splitting Elm. :long:
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Try willow thats one you dont let ride shot-gun!
 
That's right Jay. Nasty stuff there.
 
The funniest thing happened today. I was telling my wife that if she was smelling doodie around the yard. It was from the oak that I just split up and would go away before too long. She told me she was glad to find out what it was and been checking her shoes because she thought she had stepped in something nasty. :lol:
 
Even when I was logging or sawing lumber, I've always liked the smell of oak. Never thought it was bad. But then, maybe it is because I grew up on a dairy farm so had to shovel a lot of .....stuff.
 
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