1. Welcome Hearth.com Guests and Visitors - Please enjoy our forums!
    Hearth.com GOLD Sponsors who help bring the site content to you:
    Jotul Cast Iron Stoves
    Woodstock Soapstone Stoves
    Hearth and Home (QuadraFire and Harman Stoves)

Log 24 ID, Thought I had Another Cherry!

Post in 'The Wood Shed' started by Bacffin, Oct 14, 2012.

  1. Bacffin Feeling the Heat

    joined: Jan 2, 2012
    468 posts
    30 Miles Northwest of Boston
    When I first started cutting this, I thought it was a cherry or some other nut tree until I split it. Then I looked hard at the bark and it didn't have that "burnt potato chip" look Thistle told me about in cherries. But next to the cherry rounds, it sure looks the same. My quess is black oak with that smooth bark. Any ideas?

    Thanks,
    Bruce

    Attached Files:

    Bacffin, Oct 14, 2012
    #1

    Helpful Sponsor Ads!

    Thistle likes this.

  2. Wood Duck Minister of Fire

    joined: Feb 26, 2009
    3,764 posts
    Central PA
    My guess is Pin Oak. It is not Black Oak, which has a rough bark that resembles tire tread, and the wood isn't like the Black Oak I have cut. The bark looks like Pin Oak and I see medullary rays in the end of the round (I think) which makes it an oak. I haven't cut Pin Oak so I don't know what it should look like. The wood reminds me of Honey Locust but the bark and the medullary rays make me change my guess to Pin Oak. I am sure you would have mentioned the six inch thorns on a Honey locust.
    Wood Duck, Oct 14, 2012
    #2

  3. JOHN BOY Member

    joined: Sep 20, 2012
    232 posts
    Western Mountains ,NC
    Its definately not cherry. Its oak.
    JOHN BOY, Oct 14, 2012
    #3

  4. Dairyman Feeling the Heat

    joined: Nov 15, 2011
    307 posts
    Southwest MO
    I agree with Wood Duck, pin oak.
    Dairyman, Oct 14, 2012
    #4

  5. steeltowninwv Minister of Fire

    joined: Nov 16, 2010
    720 posts
    west virginia
    looks like red oak to me....at least we all agree on oak...premium btu;s
    steeltowninwv, Oct 14, 2012
    #5

  6. Thistle Minister of Fire

    joined: Dec 16, 2010
    3,908 posts
    Central IA
    Northern Red or Northern Pin.
    Thistle, Oct 14, 2012
    #6

  7. Stax Minister of Fire

    joined: Dec 22, 2010
    849 posts
    Southeastern PA
    Pic 10 is wood heaven. Great job!
    Stax, Oct 14, 2012
    #7

Share This Page