First time splitting wood today! Took me right back to Napa Valley!

[Phoenix Hatchling]

Damn if split oak doesn't smell like a wine barrel of Cabernet! Very addictive and I sniffed each piece I cut!

 

[schlot]

Damn if split oak doesn't smell like a wine barrel of Cabernet! Very addictive and I sniffed each piece I cut!

I hope you did this in private..otherwise the neighbors might think you've been drinking too much wine! LOL.

 

[Phoenix Hatchling]

I hope you did this in private..otherwise the neighbors might think you've been drinking too much wine! LOL.

Neighbors did see me! I just offered them a piece.

 

[firefighterjake]

Neighbors did see me! I just offered them a piece . . . along with some cheese.

I fixed your quote . . .


I actually often end up sniffing my cherry and apple wood when I split it . . . wife caught me once sniffing the wood . . . wanted to know "what in hell are you doing?"

 

[Woody Stover]

You must be talking White Oak, right? (Pics, please. )
I've split some White rounds that have sat for a couple years aging, and the smell was heavenly. Took me twice as long as usual to split it, with all the sniffing I was doing.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Seems like wood sniffing is catching on around here lately.

 

[Paulywalnut]

I've asked my wife to try the fresh red oak split sniff test.
To say the least she did not like it.

 

[Phoenix Hatchling]

You must be talking White Oak, right? (Pics, please. )
I've split some White rounds that have sat for a couple years aging, and the smell was heavenly. Took me twice as long as usual to split it, with all the sniffing I was doing.

Honestly don't know what kind of oak, but it is intoxicating. Even now, as I walk out the back door I get hit in the puss by the sweet oak.

 

[Woody Stover]

it is intoxicating.

Gotta be White. Best-smelling wood there is IMHO.

 

[Ram 1500 with an axe...]

Red oak smells like vinegar....for sure

 

[Backwoods Savage]

But why then doesn't vinegar smell like red oak?

 

[blades]

Any Oak ok, Black Locust on the other hand - yech. I just think BTU's though.

 

[ScotO]

I love the smell red oak and chestnut oak.......but white oak is the best smelling wood of any, HANDS DOWN, when you split it. Cherry brings in a close second.

Now pin oak, well that almost smells like horse manure IMO.......nasty chit......

 

[Ram 1500 with an axe...]

But why then doesn't vinegar smell like red oak?

Excellent question my friend.... Why?

 

[Woody Stover]

Any Oak ok, Black Locust on the other hand - yech. I just think BTU's though.

The stench seems to come from under the bark; The split wood smells OK....

 

[gzecc]

I was on the golf course a couple of days ago and said to the guys I was playing with, do you guys smell that black walnut? They of course thought I was nuts. I smelled it. Don't know where it was coming from.

 

[ScotO]

I was on the golf course a couple of days ago and said to the guys I was playing with, do you guys smell that black walnut? They of course thought I was nuts. I smelled it. Don't know where it was coming from.

fresh-cut black walnut has that "fine furniture" smell to it.....another one of my faves!

 

[blujacket]

Any Oak ok, Black Locust on the other hand - yech. I just think BTU's though.

I like the smell of Locust. Honey better than the Black though.

 

[MrWhoopee]

Black oak (in the red oak family) smells pretty funky, but I love to catch a whiff of it drying in the sun.

 

[Woody Stover]

fresh-cut black walnut has that "fine furniture" smell to it.....another one of my faves!

So does the "fresh"-cut, twenty-year-old top I found out there recently.

 

[Woody Stover]

Seems like wood sniffing is catching on around here lately.

Like stacking splits, it is a harmless addiction for us woodheads. Heck, maybe it even fends off cancer, like the cruciferous vegetables do.

 

[schlot]

Ok....if you guys start snorting wood chips I'm gonna start to worry.

 

[Woody Stover]

Ok....if you guys start snorting wood chips I'm gonna start to worry.

"Well, I can't stop now....I'm addicted!" George Costanza.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

I love the smell red oak and chestnut oak.......but white oak is the best smelling wood of any, HANDS DOWN, when you split it. Cherry brings in a close second.

Now pin oak, well that almost smells like horse manure IMO.......nasty chit......

We can tell that Scott has not cut much sassafras!

 

[ScotO]

I like the smell of Locust. Honey better than the Black though.

I like live black locust when you cut it......to me, it smells like pimentoed olives.....