Wood ID

[wtb1]

Just have gotten into burning last year and really working hard on getting enough wood for next year. But I am not as knowledgeable about what tree is what. I cut down a tree a couple of weeks ago but not sure what type it is. Thought I would pop on here and get the answer from the experts

 

[wtb1]

Here is a better picture of the bark

 

[raybonz]

Just have gotten into burning last year and really working hard on getting enough wood for next year. But I am not as knowledgeable about what tree is what. I cut down a tree a couple of weeks ago but not sure what type it is. Thought I would pop on here and get the answer from the experts

Red Oak? Just a guess..

Ray

 

[CrawfordCentury]

Looks a bit like the red oak us yankees up here have. EXCEPT...

The sapwood has a scallopy thing going on. The red oak I cut is pretty much perfectly round about the perimeter.

Down your way you have all sorts of trees I dont. Live oaks, chestnut oak. Hell, I'd love to see a stick of hickory I didn't have to drive 50 miles into another xone for.

 

[schortie]

My first guess is black walnut, but it's tough to say.

 

[NHFarmer]

By the bark I would say black oak

 

[CarbonNeutral]

Vote for red oak. Does it smell like wine/vinegar when you split it? If so, definitely red oak, otherwise not.

 

[gregp553]

Looks like red oak and the smell should confirm it. Heavy smell.

 

[3fordasho]

The leaves in both pics are definately in the red oak family.

 

[kestrel]

black oak

 

[JustWood]

Has alot of oak characteristics.
Eye dunno. Me not from down yonder.

 

[Wood Duck]

I think that tree was in the Red Oak group, but I don't know what species. You guys have Cherrybark Oak, Southern Red Oak, who knows what else?

 

[ISeeDeadBTUs]

If the leaves came from the same tree, then definitly in the Red Oak family. The grain looks like Red Oak. But being a Yankee, don't know what ya got down there.

It is not Chestnut Oak if those are the leaves. Chestnut is within the white oak family, and thuse has rounded leaf tips, not pointed.

That's gonna' make great firewood. . . just don't try to burn it for a couple of years ;-)

 

[lexybird]

black oak leaves dont look like that ..they look more like hammer heads ... those are red oak leaves and it sure appears to look alot like black walnut as mentioned earlier ...although
given the leaves and red center wood all signs point to a young red oak imho

this is a * Black oak leaf below
(broken image removed)

 

[ansehnlich1]

Red Oak.

Just take a looky at this log....

(broken image removed)

 

[waynek]

black oak leaves dont look like that ..they look more like hammer heads ... those are red oak leaves and it sure appears to look alot like black walnut as mentioned earlier ...although
given the leaves and red center wood all signs point to a young red oak imho

this is a * Black oak leaf below
(broken image removed)

Lexybird, I believe you got your Quercus's mixed up. The Black oak leaf you show is from the Quercus kelloggi found in the West.
Wtb1 cut his tree in Mississippi were Quercus velutina can be found
jackpine

 

[Monkey Wrench]

Just have gotten into burning last year and really working hard on getting enough wood for next year. But I am not as knowledgeable about what tree is what. I cut down a tree a couple of weeks ago but not sure what type it is. Thought I would pop on here and get the answer from the experts

That there is ...Rebel Yell Red Oak!
Sometimes referred to as Confederate Red Oak!

 

[wtb1]

Thanks for all the replies. I am going to go with a red oak. I also cut down a live white oak that has so much water in it I think it could start another flood. I rented a log splitter and was splitting the logs I had cut and got to the white oak. Put a big piece on it and the ram pushed the round onto the wedge and got jammed. Would not even split. I had to get a sledge hammer and knock the wood off the wedge to get it off. I think it is going to have to sit for a while before I can split it.

 

[ISeeDeadBTUs]

Thanks for all the replies. I am going to go with a red oak. I also cut down a live white oak that has so much water in it I think it could start another flood. I rented a log splitter and was splitting the logs I had cut and got to the white oak. Put a big piece on it and the ram pushed the round onto the wedge and got jammed. Would not even split. I had to get a sledge hammer and knock the wood off the wedge to get it off. I think it is going to have to sit for a while before I can split it.

Splitting Oak with a splitter???!? What a waste of gas!

 

[wtb1]

Believe me I tried using a maul and splitting axe. What I got done with the splitter in a short amount of time was way worth it. The wood was wet so maul bounced off and the splitting axe stuck The log splitter did not so much as split but tear the rounds.

 

[ISeeDeadBTUs]

Well, I'm not sure that I can say that I've split any Oak immediatly upon severing from the stump, but . . .

After Ash, Oak is about the easiest firewood there is to split.

 

[gzecc]

Jeanine is that you ( ISeeDeadBTUs) if not, whats the deal with the picture?