What kind of oak?
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Paulywalnut
Minister of Fire
Roundgunner
Feeling the Heat
Anybody burn post oak? I've got a bunch of it around here. Lot of folks around here don't like it, say it doesn't burn well. Of course these people think oak seasons in 6 months. I've never burned it myself, only pin oak and red oak. I figure it would burn like white oak, since it's in the family
lindnova
Feeling the Heat
The leaves look like bur oak. The bark looks like white oak. Bur and white are about the same for heat value; white is less knotty and tends to have smoother bark and straighter easier to split. Bur oak always has some gnarly branching that I don't see here.
Brewmonster
Burning Hunk
Shawn Curry
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Bur or White - both look very similar. You really need to find an acorn to tell them apart. Bur will have a large, shaggy looking "cup" that encases 1/2 or more of the nut. White have more "normal" looking acorns, with a smoother cup only at the top of the nut. I'm guessing White if you're in Mississippi.
Woody Stover
Minister of Fire
You're not really in the range for Bur, and the leaf isn't Post. I'm guessing it's White, is the bark scaly plates further up? Like Shawn said, an acorn would ID it...
Post Oak has the leaves that look like a maltese cross. Your leaves look like Bur oak to me too. But there is also Swamp White oak.
Bur Oak and Post Oaks are on a fenceline here in NY on my property and they are probably 150-250 yeats old and Im not in the range either of those trees either.
Good luck with the acorns...lol.
Bur Oak and Post Oaks are on a fenceline here in NY on my property and they are probably 150-250 yeats old and Im not in the range either of those trees either.
Good luck with the acorns...lol.
toddnic
Minister of Fire
Yea gets more scaly as it goes up. I should've known those weren't post oak leaves. Guess I wasn't paying much attention. It's white oak for sure
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