Tree id

Any guesses on this, took this down behind my shed, real stringy and hard to split also very heavy but metered at 24%. Lots of white oak and cherry around it

 

My guess would be Elm, although the splits don’t look that stringy. Bark falling off and cracking elm splits easily imo.

 

The bark looks like white oak to me and oak gets that black discoloration but I've been wrong wood IDs before. Good looking dog, bet he's got a lot of energy.

 

I'm thinking it's red oak, possibly white. The white rays in the 2nd picture is what my guess is based on.

 

White oak can be stringy and is notably heavy. It appears that wood has a light outer sapwood ring, as well as medullary rays like oaks. Growth rings look pretty wide for white oak but I wouldn't write it off just yet. Does it smell sweet like vanilla?

 

It doesn't have much of a smell at all. I've worked with a lot of red oak and some white and this will be the driest I've ever cut usually standing dead they're in the 40%s or higher. I'm set for this year but this is going on next year's pile. Looks like it's been dead a long time the top was mostly rotten but the trunk is all solid

 

Thanks, she'll chase that ball all day can't wear her out if I try

 

I'd say red oak of some sort based on bark and grain.

 

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Looks like some type of white oak, it is often stringy. Red pops apart easily unless the tree is twisted.

 

Sure looks and sounds like white oak to me. Red oak actually has a reddish tint to it and except for knotty pieces it splits clean and very smooth. White oak definitely is stringy and one of those woods to split where you have to let the splitter head travel all the way thru the piece of wood. Heck, red oak you can go a quarter of the way in to it and it'll just pop and split clean. I've split a lot of both as oaks are very plentiful where I am. G

 

I know a guy with a $90k firewood processor and he was bitching yesterday about how much he dislikes white oak because of how stringy it is...

 

I call that White Oak where I am.

 

Traveling to see family and they have these trees around their house and in the area. I guessed and ended up being right. I’m sure some of the members here are familiar with them!

 

Laurel Oak

 

You have them around you Chud ?

 

I figured they were live oak, but could be wrong. We’re in the Austin to area

 

There’s a few Live Oak. I don’t see them often enough to know positive id. Yours could be a live oak. The ones I’ve seen are not as tall as the one in your pic. They are wider than they are tall. Open and spreading would be a better description.