What do you do with wood like this? Pics

[Dmitry]

I dropped the ball and left some oak in big pieces and rounds outside for a year. The fungus immediately started to grow under the bark. I'm removing the bark when I split it but part of the wood is already infested and it's a pain in the ass to remove it. It's lighter wood on the outside in the pictures. Should I try to get rid of it as well? I'm worried it's going to start new fungus growth. It's not easy to remove, it is still not punky and attached to the wood.

 

[bigealta]

Stack it, don't worry about it. The fungus probably won't spread or progress now its split and stacked.

 

[johneh]

Burn it
Oak fungus won't spread now that it is split
and drying it will also dry up to nothing

 

[wooddope]

Well you lost some btus to the shrooms but I say split it and dry it out and it's gonna burn fine.

 

[Ctwoodtick]

oak is good and semi rot resistant. It will be fine .

 

[brenndatomu]

Split it, stack it, burn it.

 

[qwee]

Drill some holes in it and insert some shitake plugs/spores - you might as well get some good edible mushrooms out of that oak. You can burn it later. Oak is used in Japan for shitake mushrooms. Now, you will be doing the opposite - you'll want to keep the moisture trapped in the wood. So, you will need to water it and tarp it all tight.

 

[dznam]

Pretty common around here to have a bit of rot/fungus in the sapwood of oak (lots of dead-standing winter moth victims here with that condition). It seasons just fine and in my many years of processing and burning similar, never had an issue with it spreading. Just season it and burn it -

 

[Woody5506]

One of the only loads of red oak i ever got was even punkier than that. I still split it and seasoned it for 3 years. It burned great, and once stacked/covered the rot didn't get any worse.

 

[Caw]

Bring it over here. I'll dispose of it properly for you.

 

[gthomas785]

Yep that wood is no good, lucky for you I also offer free wood disposal you just have to drop it off