Another guess the wood.....

[scoooter]

Ok, anyone know what wood this is?

 

[nrford]

One of the 56 subspecies of Red Oak

 

[gzecc]

One of the 56 subspecies of Red Oak

+1

 

[shawneyboy]

One of the 56 subspecies of Red Oak

+2

 

[Thistle]

One of the 56 subspecies of Red Oak

+3 Red,Black,Pin....who knows exactly.One great score though.

 

[tfdchief]

White Oak, limbs aren't straight enough for red.

 

[wood-fan-atic]

The bark says 'elm' to me....but the rays say 'oak'....Upon further review of the REST of the pics I didnt see at first...I amend my answer to red oak. Nice...in 2-3 years.

 

[billb3]

Looks just like the red oak limbs in my back and front yard.
Color and moss growing on it, too.

Nice to see one where the trunk isn't full of carpenter ant catacombs.


leaves in the last pic are pointy, too.

 

[Heaterhunter]

The bark says 'elm' to me....but the rays say 'oak'....Upon further review of the REST of the pics I didnt see at first...I amend my answer to red oak. Nice...in 2-3 years.

I seasoned red oak in 4 months this past year due to necessity. ;-P Probably not quite as dry as 2 years seasoned but I haven't had one problem burning it. Basement + Airflow = Seasoned wood

 

[chinkapin_oak]

as has been mentioned, It's one of the trees in the Red Oak family. Good score.

 

[nrford]

White Oak, limbs aren't straight enough for red.

You identify species by the limbs?? I use my 25 years of expirience as a forester and sawmill owner. I have seen millions of board feet of timber and that will never be White Oak!

 

[tfdchief]

White Oak, limbs aren't straight enough for red.

You identify species by the limbs?? I use my 25 years of experience as a forester and sawmill owner. I have seen millions of board feet of timber and that will never be White Oak!

OK, hard to tell from pictures. And no, I identify trees from all characteristics, of which you seldom have, in a few pictures. I have a degree in biology, and 41 years of experience. White oak limbs tend to be more crooked and red oak much straighter. If I saw the tree in person, lots of other determining characteristics may have led me to your conclusion. But not much to go on in pictures, which tend to distort color and provide select parts of the tree as apposed to the entire package. Just an observation. ;-) The second pic is red oak trunk and the third is red oak limbs in the winter.

 

[billb3]

the bark on this one does look rather light
and more like white oak

although in that light I would expect a tinge of light brown

on line pics can be tough

by the book white oaks are often bigger than red oaks and that just isn't the case here.
and some of the white oaks on my property are close to two hundred years old.
The red oaks tower over them.

 

[Kenster]

Those splotches on the bark that look like a poor job of white washing looks just like many dozens of Water Oak I have on my property and thousands more nearby.

 

[tfdchief]

Those splotches on the bark that look like a poor job of white washing looks just like many dozens of Water Oak I have on my property and thousands more nearby.

Could be Kenster. It would be at the outskirts of the water oak's range. No way to definitively identify a tree from a couple of pictures, most of the time, but it is fun to try.

 

[scoooter]

This tree is on a common area of our neighborhood and has been cut down like this for 6-7 months. I am going to go talk to the closest neighbor and see if they mind if I take it. No one else has, and it's just laying there.

Scott