Another ID help please

[Toddw]

I took this one down today. The top had already come out of it and was straight about 40'. I'm still trying to learn ito dentify. I'm thinking some variety of hickory.

 

[bigbarf48]

I scrounged some stuff that looked just like that a few weeks ago, and posted an ID thread as well. There really wasn't a consensus, but when I split it it had that characteristic red oak smell. It doesn't look like most red oak I get around her, but I believe that it is somekind of related species

 

[gzecc]

Post a picture of the end.

 

[Paulywalnut]

It's oak. Oak is good! ALL oak is good. Hope you have a lot of it.

 

[Fifelaker]

Bark looks like white but the split looks like red but they both look like oak.

 

[Pellet_Pete]

Well when I was in South Carolina this fall, I was told there are something like 35 different species of oak in the state, from the mountains to the coast. I'm sure GA is not much different - if anything, probably a few more species. Good chance it's an oak of some kind!

 

[Backwoods Savage]

White oak.

 

[Toddw]

Post a picture of the end.

 

[Wood Duck]

It is oak, and I'd say White Oak if it was here in Pennsylvania. Down in Georgia you have White Oak, so that is my best guess, but you also have several types of oak that don't grow here so I don't know what they look like. It could be one of the oaks I don't see often, but it is definitely oak. I can see the medullary rays on the end grain, which are characteristic of all oaks.

 

[TimJ]

been laying on the ground for awhile too

 

[Toddw]

been laying on the ground for awhile too

Actually I cut it down Saturday. It was dead and the top was already out. It burns great, like it had been down and stacked for a year. Took down 2 Saturday like that.

 

[Applesister]

I like to harvest the dead stuff. Its kinda like double free that way.
Its good to see the dead trees coming to good use. Great use for heating homes.
I do it and I appreciate others who do it.
Spare the live healthy ones and clean the woodlot.

 

[Woody Stover]

I like to harvest the dead stuff.

It's nice finding Oak that's already half dry.

 

[ironspider]

Don't if I'm hijacking but can someone id this wood?

 

[ironspider]

 

[bigbarf48]

Ironspider:

That's red oak

 

[ironspider]

Ironspider:

That's red oak

Nice, two years and I got some good wood, all clean and straight too. I think the guy I got it from has tons more bit there is about a foot of ice and snow all over his wood.

 

[Wood Duck]

Ironspider - yes that is a hijack and the wood is Red Oak.. I wouldn't worry about offending anyone with a hijack, but I'd worry maybe you won't get an answer next time because your post won't get noticed. Fortunately BigBarf knows his oaks.

 

[gzecc]

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Man, is that as punky as it looks on my monitor?

 

[ironspider]

Sorry about the hijack I'm not sure how mods feel about yet another wood id thread.

 

[Toddw]

Ain't nobody offending me. That's more I can learn from. So many oaks it's hard to tell the difference. What's obvious differences between oak and hickory?

 

[bigbarf48]

Ain't nobody offending me. That's more I can learn from. So many oaks it's hard to tell the difference. What's obvious differences between oak and hickory?

I dont ever really get hickory, but red oak specifically is easy to tell from every other type of wood. It smells VERY strongly of vinegar, and usually its real easy to split. Ive also found that some smaller/denser/gnarlier oak branches have a crimped or wavy grain look to a split face. Pin oak has smooth bark, small leaves, and smells like cat crap. I find it harder to split than red oak. I dont get much white oak, but its generally gonna have flakier bark than red oak, and wont smell so strong. I also find it has a yellow-ish tint to the wood as opposed to the light red of red oak. Theres lots of other species of oak, but around here they all fall pretty much into one of the above classifications. Hope that helps with your oak ID'ing

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Ain't nobody offending me. That's more I can learn from. So many oaks it's hard to tell the difference. What's obvious differences between oak and hickory?

One has acorns and the other has nuts.