Another Wood ID

[ReggieT]

Howdy Studs!

Been a minute since I've posted, due to my Pa's health, but I'm trying to get set for winter.

Wood donor swears its White Oak. I haven't harvested enough White Oak to really know.

Black, Burr, Live??
I'm lost as a goose in high wind!🦆🦆🦢
What say ye??

Thanks

 

[Wisco Shepherd]

Closed end grain cells would be able to tell you if its white if memory serves. But then again once I know its some form of oak that's good enough for me.

 

[Eman85]

Split a round, if it's stringy could be white oak, doesn't look it though.

 

[MRD1985]

Bark does not quite match the white oaks we have in the northeast. Tough to tell from photos though. It can be a bear to split.

Yours may be black oak. We don’t have those around here though.


This is a big white oak in my front yard

 

[ScottLewis]

White oak. Looks beautiful. I am envious.

 

[ReggieT]

Here some splits pics.
Split pretty decent not easy, yet not to beastly. The Fiskers could stand an edge....

 

[patrickk222]

Its definitely Chestnut oak ... part of white oak family and easy ta split

 

[ReggieT]

Its definitely Chestnut oak ... part of white oak family and easy ta split

Appreciate cha!
One feller said, "Red Oak", but it smells wayyyy too good for Red Oak! LOL

 

[Eman85]

Red oak smells good, peel some bark and see if it's orange under the bark. Definitely not white the way that split.

 

[MRD1985]

Definitely not red Oak. I still say the bark is too coarse for it to be white oak.

 

[ScottLewis]

If it is chestnut oak, Merry Christmas. Very high BTU value. I just split up 2 Nissan truckloads of chestnut oak a few months ago, I love that stuff.

 

[Doublebogey]

Very tough call without seeing the leaves. There are over 90 species of native oak trees in North America. They are all either red or white oaks. Generally speaking, red oaks have pointed tips on their leaf lobes while white oaks have rounded lobes. That is definitely some kind of oak though.

 

[bigealta]

Chestnut oak has a pretty distinct smell like chestnuts sort of.

It's got to be some type of oak for sure though so all good.

 

[bigealta]

Generally speaking, red oaks have pointed tips on their leaf lobes while white oaks have rounded lobes. That is definitely some kind of oak though.

I always reverse that in my brain for some reason.

 

[Woody Stover]

The medullary rays say Oak.

 

[CincyBurner]

White Oak: Leaves rounded lobes and cut wood smells much better than red oak (think bourbon). It exhibits tylosis (occlusion ) of its vessels that retards spread of decay pathogens, and why it was selected for barrels (no leakage).
Red Oak: Leaves - with bristle tipped lobes, and cut wood smells more acidic, often described as vinegar-like.