One eyed South American tree worker told me it was oak. I thought it was some type of hickory yesterday. Stopped today, it’s wet and I think it is some type of Oak. Black maybe? What is it?
Thanks guys. I swear it looked like a hickory when it was a little drier. I didn’t look very close I guess, was looking at the other trees down. So I’ll assume this Pin oak is also called a pizz oak due to its smell
Variety of red oak. Possibly pin. If it has a strong manure smell its pin. Most pungent of the oaks IME. Go get it tomorrow!
Agreed. Pin oak around here will have a ring of branches every few feet which makes for lots of knots. Agreed it is in the red oak family though.
I know everyone talks about the smell of pin oak and I know most of y'all don't have to deal with the brush but what about those branches. They're the most ridgid, intertwined mess. When trying to unload a trailer full they all just want to stick together.
It could be a hybrid between pin and red. Or pin and scarlet, or black. Oaks are promiscuous. The way that trunk splits off into two leads looks suspicious but I kind of assumed maybe a squirrel nipped the end bud off it when it was young. The end grain definitely still looks like pin to me. For firewood purposes it’s red oak.
Well it’s definitely an oak and more importantly it’s mine. Grabbed everything halfway decent from the mystery oak, left the crotch behind. Four pieces of cherry to finish the load. The problem with all these short logs is loading them in layers is just too much work and less safe. Check out that stump cut and hinge!! Fairly certain that’s sugar maple. Home is just so wet I have no place to store it.
My brother fells like that. Claims it is the "safe" way. I just smh. He'll remind me he cuts 10X me, like that somnehow logically makes it so.
You mean if they were pulling up the tree with a crane and cutting with a chainsaw? I could see that making sense. Not sure they had a crane there tho. Possibly. I know they climbed that tree quite a few times as witnessed by the spike marks. I assumed they climbed it and dropped it piecemeal. Edit. Then again maybe the did have a crane there. Smaller one. The butt of the log was opposite the stump which a crane would do. I’m not sure a skid steer could pick a log that big and then you’d have to spin it around to accomplish that position. I saw no skid steer tracks there. I think you’re right.
I see V cuts when a grapple saw crane is used. My assumption is that it prevents the log from swinging out and striking the guy in the spider lift, or the guy cutting it loose on the ground. It may also just be a technique to avoid saw pinch when a crane is lifting. I’ve seen a lot of v cuts, but it’s always associated with a grapple saw crane tree removal. I’ll have to ask next time I see one of those machine operators.
Sheesh. Straight cherry logs like that are the stuff of legends. Correct on the sugar maple too. You ever get tired of winning Joe?
I don't know what it is but that is some beautiful wood, beautiful logs. The bark doesn't look like oak to me but I haven't seen a lot of the oak family.
Yup sugar maple. Cant dump it in your yard for now and get the rest? Just being an enabler here! SM good stuff, but I know your splitter doesn't like it.
