Nice haul,white oak.The leaves on the ground were a mixture of some maple and some oak. When I cut into this tree it had the familiar smell if pin oak. The rounds were fairly heavy, have not split anything yet. So, is it some kind of oak?View attachment 85175
I vote white oak. Primo wood.
Dries a bit faster than red oak.
A bit stringier & tougher to split than red oak too.
It dries faster Dave? I can attest to the tougher to split and stringier part, I was just using a Fiskars when I got a bunch of white oak and it was a pain, its the reason I bought a splitter.
FYI:
White oak is one of the toughest flexible woods in the world by weight. Was used to make wooden ships.
White oak resists rot & moisture, good outdoor wood. Dries faster than red oak & won't absorb water like read oak does.
White oak for whiskey barrels & boats
Red oak barrels would leak.
Red oak has open capillaries (hundreds of miniature straws) , left in rain & snow, it never dries, capillaries fill with water & take a long long time to dry out.
Easy to see when put in a fire, steam comes out the ends of the capillaries. You can blow air thru a red oak board.
Thus tougher & longer to get it dry & keep it dry.
Good wood for indoor furniture but hard to finish, soaks in allot of finish. Tough to get a mirror finish, but has the nice unique "red oak" texture.
If it doesn't rain today I'll get to see how it splits. If I recall correctly, white is slightly higher in btu than red?
make sure you take a sniff of that stuff. Should have a sort of 'vanilla-ish' scent to it. I love the smell of white oak, both when splitting AND when it's burning in the stove!If it doesn't rain today I'll get to see how it splits. If I recall correctly, white is slightly higher in btu than red?
sorry Thistle, I pretty much repeated what you said almost word for word! Didn't see your post above til AFTER I wrote mine! You know how we're related and all, this just goes to prove it.Plus White Oaks either green or dry have that great vanilla-ish scent,think of inside a whisky barrel,with caramel notes. Red Oak,when green,even 'damp' when dead & not dried - smells sour & really stinks on a hot summer day.
Plus White Oaks either green or dry have that great vanilla-ish scent,think of inside a whisky barrel,with caramel notes. Red Oak,when green,even 'damp' when dead & not dried - smells sour & really stinks on a hot summer day.
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