another wood i.d.

[splitoak]

Ok guys i think its some sort of white oak...its super dense hard as heck to split...it has a wavy grain unlike the red oak next to it any ideas? The one pic a piece of red oak for comparison..

 

[pen]

Looks a lot like beech we have around here with beech bark disease. Hard as hell to split as well.

Are all of the pieces in that last pic from the same tree? If so, then not beech, but the "superstar" resembles many of our local beech now, sadly

Here's a pic from the net of what many of ours that are in bad shape look like for comparison

 

[splitoak]

Yes the last pic is a split sittn on a round of the stuff....

 

[Hogwildz]

The one pc looks like cherry to me.

 

[Applesister]

I see alot of cherry in the pics but those arent what you are asking about. And itkinda does look like diseased beech but....
There is alot of different types of oak, alot up here in the north and probably even more as you move down into more temperate states.
Pin oak sometimes has a mottled somewhat smooth bark, on juvenile trees.
For the sake of firewood its not critical important. If you didnt take the tree down yourself. You can sort of guess its heat value by dry weight, roughly.

 

[bigbarf48]

Pin oak I think. Grain doesn't look like beech

 

[JoeyD]

I was going to say red oak also. Pin oak is a red oak.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Could be a pin oak. The tree below was a dead pin oak. Click on the picture to get a closer look at the bark.

 

[bigbarf48]

I was going to say red oak also. Pin oak is a red oak.

Yep

I find pin oak is a little harder to split than other oaks but its good stuff!

 

[splitoak]

Kinda figured it was oak...its neat to see all the species of oak split and how they are different grain and color wise...the first pic it is layn beside a piece of some type of red oak that is very red..purdy..

 

[BillLion]

Yep

I find pin oak is a little harder to split than other oaks but its good stuff!

And it smells like dog excrement when freshly split.

 

[bigbarf48]

And it smells like dog excrement when freshly split.

I have to agree. I like how red and white oak smell, but pin oak always makes my hands smell like a cat box after I'm done working with it