High quality BTU's? Anyone tell me if its oak and its kind? Couldn't get the chainsaw running but hey made the most of it today, sun is partial and I got work to do. Hope to read some later tonight!
Around my way it's oak for sure. Red and white are both fairly easy to access. The best heat, burn times and coaling for a very resourceful species.
When you get a chance FB85, get us a nice crisp closeup of that end grain. I feel like I can see the medullary rays in the big round, but I think we'd all agree if you dialed in a bit. My IS heats my home, I think it may be Pin, the growth rings have a "wavy and loose" look to them....
Bark looks a little too smooth to be oak. Looks like it might be red alder from the pics. Post a pic of a split piece when you can. Nice score!!
Hey Eric VW, hope this will do! If anything I can tell you it smells a bit like sour cream and onion tater chips. Definitely made my saw work hard, bogged it down. The biggest rounds i got weren't much bigger than 12 inches or so. Forget the large rounds, I'd need the Green Man to help me load those and the owner was understanding. I may get another chance at this tomorrow, no telling what I'll get but its definitely nice to work my butt off for it.
I snapped this just before leaving the property. This was the trunk, these rounds were at least 2 feet in diameter. Too bad Someone cut them. The trunk was about 8 feet 4 sectioned rounds but still hanging together. I told the owner "bummer, the sawers you can get for about 100 bucks an hour of work and cut slabs for you but that was a done deal. They put these as oak because the property name was called Oakbrook, so if anything they just transplanted one tree in front of each house.
Looks more like maple to me than oak. The bark is too smooth for rounds that size and awful thin. But I'm only familiar with east coast oak. I do have some pin oak that was purchased and planted. Given how the branches are like christmas trees I hope I never have to split it.
Yep. It's smooth bark. My educated guess is still Pin Oak. Pic # 1070 clearly shows the medullary rays/lines...
Yep. Oak typically takes 3 years to season. That's my main issue with it. Other hardwood with more btu's than oak take only 2 years to season. However, it makes you get on a multi year plan when you start hoarding oak.
See the radial (medullary) lines? That's an Oak family trait- make no bones about it- Pin Oak has thin bark, to boot....
Interesting. The pin oaks I planted aroundabout 2005 already the bark are a little bit coarser than this: But they came from Kentucky someplace (via Lowes).
The horizontal lenticals in photo 1077 do not look like oak. More like birch or cherry but not quite. I'm not very good at the trees growing in WA.
I was splitting some today, taller round but started with my maul and ended up shooting 3...3 (1 2 3) splitting wedges in there. All got stuck. Then hit it with the maul again. Well if I needed a better reason to split it...its the waiting 3 freakin' years. Oh well. Now I have another plan in mind but not quite what you guys might be thinking. Another note.
Does not look like oak to me. I do have a couple pictures of some pin oak we took down a while back plus one picture of pin oak leaf. On the second picture below, the pin oak is on the right. That is a young soft maple laying on the left of it.
