I don't know what kind of oak that is, but it isn't black oak. Black oak looks just like red oak on the inside, but the bark is similar to black oak.
I'm not sure what it is besides a red oak of some sort. All pin oak I've gotten has split hard or harder than red. Here's some pics of red oak on my property. At least I think it's red. Lol. This is the top. This is the trunk. The tree was grown in the woods not in a yard. Probably in a wetter area of the woods too.
It looks an awful lot like the English Walnut I just sliced up at my sister's house. The smell was a bit like walnut that had been dragged through the barnyard.
No matter what it is exactly , it's oak and it will heat the house . Here is the thread Wood ID | Firewood Hoarders Club
The bark is similar-er to English Walnut. The wood color looks to be too. The end grain would show ring porosity if it was oak.
At first glance I thought it was one of these...they fool me as oaks a lot from a distance. Big Toothed Aspen. The heartwood seems to confirm Pin Oak, but the furrowing is pretty shallow.
WoodovenAT how about some more pics. Maybe a cleaner cut end grain and maybe a better pic of one split open? After looking at your first pics better I'm thinking it could be pin oak. The heart wood is not as bright as a red oak.
The bark looks kinda like a young red, but English Walnut looks like that too. That would also explain why the heartwood looks, well, more like walnut. It was once very popular as a yard tree, but the 2 harsh winters we had in '13 and '14 killed all of them around here - probably Jersey too. I wonder if it was the smell that made WoodovenAT think hickory?
I was talking about HD's 3 pictures of some type of oak critter...not AT's. I don't know what those are.
Looks like pignut hickory, but color is off on a couple pics...right on some others....could be lighting? Does it smell like BBQ?
Yup, it is definitely a wood, pretty sure it is from a tree, between 1 and 100 years old, probably alive at some point but recently dead, within 1 or 5 years
Since many said pin oak I looked for some pictures but these are the only ones I have that might help. This pin oak was dead so the bark might look a bit different but it shows a good picture of the end and the heart wood (and just look at all those limbs!). Also a picture of a pin oak leaf.
Well.. That certainly looks like what it is, I wasn't able to get over there today, try again tomorrow
