Big freebie stack, help a newb ID and tell me what to get!

12 footer on the new 2186 saw and mill! Thought this was red oak originally but after inhaling the fines for the last two hours milling I’m thinking red ash?

 

has an ashy look to it.

 

It does look like the ash I've milled before too. Really tight growth rings. That'll be some damm stout lumber! Beautiful slabs. Did ya snap anymore pics? Nice mill set-up too. How'd it go?

 

Ash I milled 2016.

 

More closeup pics plus some of a similar tree we split and stacked.

milling went well, big difference jumping from a 45cc mill to an 85cc! It seemed to get stuck in a few places as I went along in the 2nd (2”) and 3rd (6”) cuts. Couldn’t tell if I had a bow or my chain was getting dull. Also need to figure out how to crank up the oiler on this thing

 

New plastics and decals

 

Norway maple?

 

yes...in the foreground.

 

Smells like white oak but looks kinda pinkish? Bark seems like white oak too. Got some 36” slices for table tops. Cut two more 12” thick slices and used the Fiskars to make smoking wood sticks

 

The bark looks like white oak and those two purplish stains are classic oak of metal somewhere in the tree, but the grain doesnt quite look oakish to me. Did it have a vanilla or whiskey aroma to it?

 

You have to look really closely but I do see medullary rays. That’s got to be white oak, or at least a variety of white oak.

 

swamp white oak maybe?

 

The ones I’ve seen of that size have larger furrows in the bark, almost like chestnut oak. This one has my scratching my head. It could be a hybrid oak like Beadle’s oak (white x swamp chestnut) or some variety I’m not familiar with. Pretty sure it’s in the white oak group anyway so it’ll make good firewood.

 

It's a variety of white oak. Ot will have a pink tint when exposed to air after fresh cut. There are so many sub species. Nice hoard right there.

 

White oak rounds that big.. !! No split left behind, lol.

 

I've enjoyed reading thru these 9 pages of posts. Very informative. You folks are sharp on your species identification.

 

Stocking up on more white oak smoking wood, snapped a tooth off my 63PMX fighting nails. I cut 12.5” discs off the big 36” trunk prices and went around the perimeter with the Fiskars. Used the bark pieces for firewood and all the bark and metal-free pieces for smoking sticks.

 

Update: this was cottonwood, which I'm told is a garbage wood so I'm glad I walked away from it

 

burns better than snowballs!

 

Isn’t cottonwood all stringy and a bear to split? Probably explains why it was so hard to mill