Oak Find

[Loren]

found this at the dump. Thinking it is red or burr oak. Any thoughts?

 

[red oak]

Red oak - this makes up over 90% of my wood supply. Usually splits easy but one of the slowest drying woods out there. If you can split it small, top cover and give it 3 years in the stack it will make great firewood - it can really put out the heat!

 

[HisTreeNut]

+1 on what @red oak said.

 

[CheapBassTurd]

Awesome!

I have what's in the pic but I was told white oak on the phone. Definitely oak leaves
so we have it narrowed down. lol
My aunt gave me one as a "gift". It was a standing partially dead that the power
company convinced her was the property owners' responsibility. 70+ footer and three
feet at the trunk, 4 ft base. She paid the guys extra to section it ALL into 18" rounds.
(That was the gift part.)

The best part of my first summer on wood prep is that there's 1 1/2 winters busted up
and I literally haven't used the saw since the snow melted. All splits n' rounds, no knots.
The knotty stuff goes into the emergency pile to get sawed and burnt in chunk form if the
good wood runs low. (Gonna end up burning it sooner than later to keep the pretty stuff)

 

[Lone_Gun]

Wishing our dump/recycle places had a wood dump like this, but have never seen it. Nice score!


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[red oak]

I have what's in the pic but I was told white oak on the phone. Definitely oak leaves
so we have it narrowed down. lol

Red oak leaves are pointed on the ends, white oak are more rounded. But once you split red oak you'll never again fail to recognize it - it has a very distinctive smell that some hate but I love. It's tough to describe. White oak has a sweeter vanilla-like smell and in my experience is a bit stringier when splitting.

 

[Sconnie Burner]

Red oak leaves are pointed on the ends, white oak are more rounded. But once you split red oak you'll never again fail to recognize it - it has a very distinctive smell that some hate but I love. It's tough to describe. White oak has a sweeter vanilla-like smell and in my experience is a bit stringier when splitting.

I love the smell as well! It tells me that I'll be nice and warm in 3 yrs! I will walk past my stacks at least once a week to get my fix!

 

[Loren]

Thanks everyone! Yea I think it smells like cedar almost. Kinda like it. Splitting is easy as and fun with the Fiskars. I could not believe it was just sitting there are the brush dump. I love that place. It has its own culture. Scroungers and scavengers just like me!

 

[Hasufel]

Red oak leaves are pointed on the ends, white oak are more rounded. But once you split red oak you'll never again fail to recognize it - it has a very distinctive smell that some hate but I love. It's tough to describe. White oak has a sweeter vanilla-like smell and in my experience is a bit stringier when splitting.

Totally agree, on all counts. Red oak is my all-around favorite. To me the smell is a bit like fermented apples, but that doesn't do it justice. Previous discussions in this forum raised the possibility that soil type could affect the smell, which might explain why people have such different opinions.