Free Chestnut Oak score!!

[mikey517]

Friend if mine less than one mile away had tree work done; gave me a free truckload all bucked and waiting in the driveway. Had it loaded, home and split by noon- I am 65 years slow!!

 

[BillLion]

Friend if mine less than one mile away had tree work done; gave me a free truckload all bucked and waiting in the driveway. Had it loaded, home and split by noon- I am 65 years slow!!

Congrats!

I just got a free chestnut oak free this week.

Are you sure that's chestnut oak? Looks a lot different than mine:

 

[My Oslo heats my home]

Good scrounging to both of you! And on the ID, Ive never had chestnut in these years of burning, not sure which one it is

 

[mikey517]

The bark on your oak looks more like a white oak. I've had Chestnut (Rock) oak before and the bark is exactly the same. But..I am no expert. I think someone on here will know better than I, and I'd like to know. Not that it matters - oak is oak!!

EDIT** photo of white oak bark from eco-usa.net
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[cptoneleg]

Friend if mine less than one mile away had tree work done; gave me a free truckload all bucked and waiting in the driveway. Had it loaded, home and split by noon- I am 65 years slow!!

That is some nice looking Chestnut Oak

 

[cptoneleg]

Congrats!

I just got a free chestnut oak free this week.

Are you sure that's chestnut oak? Looks a lot different than mine:

And that is some nice looking White Oak

 

[BillLion]

And that is some nice looking White Oak

Well, I stand corrected!

The guy who cut the tree down for my neighbor said it was chestnut oak. No complaints from me. The guy was nice enough to cut it down into beautiful 16-18" rounds and my neighbor was nice enough to give them all to me.

Thanks for the correct tree ID.

 

[weatherguy]

Yeah, that's white oak Bill, one of my favorite woods, I have a cord that's just about ready, I'm going to test it and if it's good to go I'll burn it when the real cold gets here.
I've never seen chestnut oak Mikey, the bark is almost like a black locust, looks like great btu wood.

 

[BillLion]

Yeah, that's white oak Bill, one of my favorite woods, I have a cord that's just about ready, I'm going to test it and if it's good to go I'll burn it when the real cold gets here.
I've never seen chestnut oak Mikey, the bark is almost like a black locust, looks like great btu wood.

Thanks. No complaints about white oak from me!

 

[cptoneleg]

White Oak is great wood, at the mill chestnut is sold as white, iv been told.

 

[Cold Is Dumb]

Chestnut Oak is a White Oak subspecies from what I've learned here. Like how a square is a rectangle, so to speak.

 

[Paulywalnut]

All oak is good! I love 3 year old oak.

 

[STIHLY DAN]

Yeah, that's white oak Bill, one of my favorite woods, I have a cord that's just about ready, I'm going to test it and if it's good to go I'll burn it when the real cold gets here.
I've never seen chestnut oak Mikey, the bark is almost like a black locust, looks like great btu wood.

Exactly what I was thinking. Must not grow around here.

 

[PSYS]

awesome score!

 

[mikey517]

All oak is good! I love 3 year old oak.

Oak is oak!! We both done good...

 

[Applesister]

I think Chestnut oak smells like mustard. White oak smells like vanilla.
Mikey is your avatar Jethro Tull? Aqualung?
I keep trying to think where I saw that.

 

[mikey517]

"Sitting on a park bench (da..dada..)
Eying chestnut oak with bad intent (dada..dadada.....dadadum).
Oil's running down the bar..(da..dada)
Greasy fingers smearing chip-filled clothes, hey
Scrounger Bum"

(sorry 'bout that! It's the back of the album cover...remember albums??)

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[BillLion]

"Sitting on a park bench (da..dada..)
Eying chestnut oak with bad intent (dada..dadada.....dadadum).
Oil's running down the bar..(da..dada)
Greasy fingers smearing chip-filled clothes, hey
Scrounger Bum"

(sorry 'bout that! It's the back of the album cover...remember albums??)

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Yes! I had this album on vinyl

 

[mikey517]

Aqualung? Moses? Zeus? I've been called far worse as well

 

[Applesister]

Poseidon with a trident?
Riding his chariot of white horses?
I see a great resemblance!!
Great pic
Youre good to go as long as no one mentions Nick Nolte's mug shot. lol.
Vinyl is a far cry from Pandora streaming off the internet thats for sure.

 

[paul bunion]

"Sitting on a park bench (da..dada..)
Eying chestnut oak with bad intent (dada..dadada.....dadadum).
Oil's running down the bar..(da..dada)
Greasy fingers smearing chip-filled clothes, hey
Scrounger Bum"

(sorry 'bout that! It's the back of the album cover...remember albums??)

(broken image removed)

I never forgot record albums. I have more than one copy of Aqualung in my collection.
Did you by chance get to see Ian Anderson doing Thick as a Brick earlier this month at the Beacon?

 

[Applesister]

It took a while for the image to click...but it did despite the wasted brain cells of my youth.
Dont know where the Beacon is. I hope in Massachusetts. Like Mass Mocha.

 

[mikey517]

The Beacon is on Broadway in NYC.
As I've gotten older, I've been more and more reluctant to leave the mountain I live on in NW New Jersey, and haven't been to a show in years (probably the 70's).

I've gotten uglier since that photo..

 

[JOHN BOY]

That is chestnut oak , and yes it is part of the white oak family great stuff !

 

[shoot-straight]

chestnut oak is my favorite, hands down wood to burn. splits SOOOO much easier than white oak. not nearly as stringy.