The closeup is helpful - few species have those radial rays. Some kind of oak, maybe not one of the more common species? I have a lot of chestnut oak, which is a type of white oak, and it looks similar to that. Really deep fissured heavy bark.
Chestnut Oak. The rays make it obviously an oak, and the thick, corky bark indicate Chestnut Oak. I think the wide light-colored sapwood is also typical for Chestnut Oak.
HDRock, you really helped to narrow it with those close ups of the splits So we have Chestnut Oak, Swamp Oak, Black Jack Oak, maybe throw Post Oak in there? I don't know- cos I've never cut any of the above, that I recall. Good responses tho, y'all! We're almost there.....
Well we know it is oak, what surprised me is how dang hard it is, that's why I cut those cookies to see if it was my imagination and I switched to a different Saw too
The range of Blackjack oak and post oak don't extend into Michigan. Unless it's a planted tree, we can probably rule those out.
Here we go ,noodled one for ya , It's actually a darker than the camera shows Different camera Any whoo ! It will burn real nice when it's dry
I've cut a bunch of blackjack oak and the bark doesn't seem right even for a mature tree it's a lot more square & knobby. The yellow in the sapwood could be the start of punk/decay - which blackjack is known for
I'm a new guy here to FHC. I gotta say I use to be over on another " site" and these kinda threads would sometimes lead to ridicule and a lot of "one-up-man-ship" to the point guys are hesitant to post. This was fun working it out together and some of us learned a thing or three. I'm really glad I came on over to FHC and now call it home.
Wood that I have had, cut, split, stacked and burned, or worked with In the Woodshop, I can ID pretty easily other than that I'm pretty terrible at ID
