Well I cut down what I thought was oak, but without leaves I dont really know an oak from a maple.
I tried to split it then and there with my maul but couldnt even bust a small round? It was about 20 degrees, I thought wood was suppose to be easier to split green and frozen but I couldnt even get a 10" round to pop. So its sat there drying for about two months now and starting to crack on the ends. I tried to split it today with the new fiskars... I busted it open and the grain is all wavy, and very pale white.
Funny thing is two weekends ago I was cutting and fell what I thought was a maple but not sure, it was pretty smooth grey bark. The base of the tree though was starting to have a scaly appearance. When I stacked it next to what I thought was the oak I realized the biggest round looked just like some of the rounds I had there, and the small rounds from what I thought was an oak were smooth gray just like this one. And they both had some dark spots in them around towards the outer edge that are oblong shape all the way around in some rounds like the numerals on a clock. In any case I think they are the same, whatever they are. Just one was much smaller than the other.
Here are a few pics, sorry the grain didnt come out on the cell phone pic. The other pic shows the two different trees side by side. The row on the left was what I thought was the oak a few months ago, and on the right a smaller tree that I think is just a younger one of the same. On the left the biggest round is 18" and on the right the biggest round is 12".
I tried to split it then and there with my maul but couldnt even bust a small round? It was about 20 degrees, I thought wood was suppose to be easier to split green and frozen but I couldnt even get a 10" round to pop. So its sat there drying for about two months now and starting to crack on the ends. I tried to split it today with the new fiskars... I busted it open and the grain is all wavy, and very pale white.
Funny thing is two weekends ago I was cutting and fell what I thought was a maple but not sure, it was pretty smooth grey bark. The base of the tree though was starting to have a scaly appearance. When I stacked it next to what I thought was the oak I realized the biggest round looked just like some of the rounds I had there, and the small rounds from what I thought was an oak were smooth gray just like this one. And they both had some dark spots in them around towards the outer edge that are oblong shape all the way around in some rounds like the numerals on a clock. In any case I think they are the same, whatever they are. Just one was much smaller than the other.
Here are a few pics, sorry the grain didnt come out on the cell phone pic. The other pic shows the two different trees side by side. The row on the left was what I thought was the oak a few months ago, and on the right a smaller tree that I think is just a younger one of the same. On the left the biggest round is 18" and on the right the biggest round is 12".