Anyone have any experience with Black Oak? Anyone know which it would be closer compared to, Red, White, Pin, or Willow Oak? I had at least a cords worth dropped in my yard..
splitnstack said:I was thinking there was a blackjack oak. Is that the same species as black oak?
splitnstack said:I was thinking there was a blackjack oak. Is that the same species as black oak?
Wooderson said:Love black oak. Great, long burning, high BTU wood. Split small - 3-4 inches - and will season in one long hot Texas summer. Fire all last weekend. High of 47 Sunday. High of 87 Wednesday - go figure. Going to have more seasoning this week, but cold again Friday...
Thanks FLINT, good info. I may have cut or burned some and not even known it. I have for sure c/s/s and burned quite a bit of post oak in the past and it did always seem to come off of dry, droughty land.FLINT said:splitnstack said:I was thinking there was a blackjack oak. Is that the same species as black oak?
no blackjack oak is a different species. blackjack oak only has three really fat lobes that aren't really separated from each other very much, and the leaves are pretty thick and leathery. It is a more southern species - they have it in central and southern VA, but we don't have it up here. I don't think it normally gets as big, and might tend to grow on the drier, sandy areas with post oak.
but blackjack oak is also a red oak
Sorry Thistle, good info from you too.Thistle said:Quite a lot of it in the midwest.It can hybridize with Northern Red Oak & sometimes hard to tell the difference between them.Wood is the same density,texture,strength etc. & used for same purposes.Normally not as well-formed as Red Oak,tree trunks tend to be shorter & have more limbs/knots.But its great burning wood & splits pretty good most of the time,just takes more time to dry than most of the White Oaks.