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Looks like Oak to my relatively untrained eye? Red oak family?
stoveliker
Minister of Fire
hickoryhoarder
Minister of Fire
CincyBurner
Minister of Fire
Solarguy3500
Feeling the Heat
stoveliker
Minister of Fire
As the question of the OP has been answered, I have the following one for my education.
I cut down a maple in my backyard that had the same squarish spots on the split surface. As oak apparently shows this (tho I have not seen it much with oak), and I have seen it in maple (don't know which kind), what trees show such spots?
I cut down a maple in my backyard that had the same squarish spots on the split surface. As oak apparently shows this (tho I have not seen it much with oak), and I have seen it in maple (don't know which kind), what trees show such spots?
This explains it pretty well
This type of lumber is expensive because there is not much in a log.
In maple, you see it in some trees but not others and is commonly
known as tiger maple because it looks like tiger stripes.
Most woodworkers, call it figured maple
also expensive.
This type of lumber is expensive because there is not much in a log.
In maple, you see it in some trees but not others and is commonly
known as tiger maple because it looks like tiger stripes.
Most woodworkers, call it figured maple
also expensive.
stoveliker
Minister of Fire
red oak. the bark also says red oak and the piece that looks like the bark came off says red oak
stoveliker
Minister of Fire
So, as this seems to have been solved, let me post the next one. I got a load of oak rounds delivered. And it contained this; a branch or trunk of about 8" dia. Dark inside. A beast to split; stringy. It cracks but does not split. Even with two wedges completely in, I still have to use a hatchet to cut through strings in the wide open gap.
I thought it was all oak (tree was large, more than 2.5 ft dia) and saw this and thought the branch had some rot someplace, leading to brown streaking elsewhere. But its splitting behavior is completely different from the oak.
Any idea if I got something mixed in that was not oak? What does this look like to you?
The pic with the stack is to show the different splitting behavior with the other pieces.
(And no, that body part visible is not my splitting attire.. )
I thought it was all oak (tree was large, more than 2.5 ft dia) and saw this and thought the branch had some rot someplace, leading to brown streaking elsewhere. But its splitting behavior is completely different from the oak.
Any idea if I got something mixed in that was not oak? What does this look like to you?
The pic with the stack is to show the different splitting behavior with the other pieces.
(And no, that body part visible is not my splitting attire.. )
Simonkenton
Minister of Fire
stovelike it is hickory. And that is why I don't mess with hickory. Great firewood if you have a mechanical splitter.
Plus, the one load of hickory I got delivered, when I went to burn it 2 years later the wood was covered with powdery sawdust. Hickory bark beetles. No more hickory for me.
Plus, the one load of hickory I got delivered, when I went to burn it 2 years later the wood was covered with powdery sawdust. Hickory bark beetles. No more hickory for me.
stoveliker
Minister of Fire
Ok. Thank you!
I did not see beetle damage, and it's stacked within 2.5 cords of oak, so I hope it'll come out ok.
I did not see beetle damage, and it's stacked within 2.5 cords of oak, so I hope it'll come out ok.
