ID This Wood

[tfdchief]

Pin Oak and Red Oak are very similar, and very closely related. Pin Oak does usually have a darker heartwood, so I'm going with Pin Oak.

 

[Adios Pantalones]

Red oak is a broad category. Pin oak is a type of red oak.

If that's not red oak, I will eat a split of it.

 

[mywaynow]

Don't think Pin from the Pin I have worked. Pins around me are loaded with small, mostly dead branches. You would be hard pressed to find 4 running feet of log that did not have a dead branch. Pics show clean logs. Red.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Excellent description of pin oak!

 

[tfdchief]

Don't think Pin from the Pin I have worked. Pins around me are loaded with small, mostly dead branches. You would be hard pressed to find 4 running feet of log that did not have a dead branch. Pics show clean logs. Red.

Yah, but I don't think you can see enough log length to determine that. Just my opinion and I have cut a lot of pin and red oak.

 

[TreePointer]

Another helper on northern red vs. pin oak:

Around here, if it's in a forest, it's a northern red oak. If it's on the perimiter of a wooded area, it could be either. If it's in an urban/suburban area, along a road, or around a school/business, it's probably a pin oak.

OP stated that there were leaves on the ground--that should help. Acorns should help, too, but the critters have eaten the easily visible ones by this time of year.

 

[Woody Stover]

Another helper on northern red vs. pin oak:

Around here, if it's in a forest, it's a northern red oak. If it's on the perimiter of a wooded area, it could be either. If it's in an urban/suburban area, along a road, or around a school/business, it's probably a pin oak.

OP stated that there were leaves on the ground--that should help. Acorns should help, too, but the critters have eaten the easily visible ones by this time of year.

Pin Oak also likes wet areas.

 

[mywaynow]

Don't think Pin from the Pin I have worked. Pins around me are loaded with small, mostly dead branches. You would be hard pressed to find 4 running feet of log that did not have a dead branch. Pics show clean logs. Red.

Yah, but I don't think you can see enough log length to determine that. Just my opinion and I have cut a lot of pin and red oak.

I would look again. There are many logs, maybe 12 or so. I see about 3 limbs total. One 16 inch log is likely to have 2 or 3 dead limbs on a pin oak.