Wood id please

looks like B/L to me

B/L OR Honey locust need to see a split

Chesnut oak

That's weird UncontrollableE, I just asked a friend what kind of fallen storm wood he had given us, because I knew it was Oak but didn't look anything like the other oak we had, and he told me it was "Chestnut Oak." I came here and did a search to see if anyone had any to show, or to say about it, and there was nothing on here, and then you put that there!
Backwoods, our pcs of "Chestnut oak" look like that, (but ours doesn't have such nice thick bark on it - maybe it's just from a different part of the tree?)

no leaves??

uncontrolabLEE said:

Chesnut oak

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I would agree just not yellow enough for bl but its close.

Chestnut Oak is my guess I have lots of it on my place, here are a few pictures for comparisom

Black locust. Those furrows and bark thickness says no oak to me. Considering I just cut some black locust today and it looks exactly like that. Plus the growth rings are a little fast for oak to me on your pics. Honey is a semi smoother bark than black. See if you can press in the bark with your fingers and take some off.... Ever try that w oak? Only asking from pickin up rounds with bare hands oak... Oak is a real hard bark!

If it is an Oak you should be able to see the radial rays in the split. I see no rays, therefore Black Locust.

nrford said:

If it is an Oak you should be able to see the radial rays in the split. I see no rays, therefore Black Locust.

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I think you mean medullary rays!
I'll bet my forestry degree it's Chestnut Oak !

I vote Black Locust

uncontrolabLEE said:

nrford said:

If it is an Oak you should be able to see the radial rays in the split. I see no rays, therefore Black Locust.

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I think you mean medullary rays!
I'll bet my forestry degree it's Chestnut Oak !

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I'll put 30 years of sawmill expirience up against that forestry degree! Black Locust. There are no medullary rays in either the split or in evidence on the blocks. In the harwood lumber biz, they have always been refered to as radial rays because most of us couldn't spell medullary! LOL

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smokinjay said:

just not yellow enough for bl but its close.

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+1. Not seeing enough orange on the surface of that bark, either.

Not BL. Wood is too red. BL looks is green like pressure treated lumber when it is fresh cut.

I cut alot of b/l the bark resembles it but the split is off, and backwoods probably knows answer I can bring some home and my wife will I/D it pictures are sometimes deceiving. I cut dead standing fell over whatever there is a tree that has bark like B/L but is trash wood cuts like butter you can definitely tell when you run a saw through it. I leave it I will post some pictures on another thread.


To me the bark does look like B/L but the split does not, I do know this I cut into a piece I know immediately

uncontrolabLEE said:

Chesnut oak

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+1 or 2 or 3

As for the bark, it could be a lot of different species, including a big red oak. My bet wood be oak for sure.

uncontrolabLEE said:

nrford said:

If it is an Oak you should be able to see the radial rays in the split. I see no rays, therefore Black Locust.

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I think you mean medullary rays!
I'll bet my forestry degree it's Chestnut Oak !

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My Botany degree says Lee is probably right! ;-P

Flatbedford said:

Not BL. Wood is too red. BL looks is green like pressure treated lumber when it is fresh cut.

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Dang Flatbed, you are the BL KING! I love that stuff but seldom get it. You just drive down your road, stop and cut it.......lucky duck! ;-P