3 or 4+ year old oak is superb. Good dead-of-winter overnight wood, and in small amounts excellent shoulder wood. Ash… at this point I’d rather save the decent logs for lumber considering the trees themselves are passing into history.
It takes a special kind of dedication to seek out the behemoths like that. Last month I processed the last of a 30” scarlet oak that came down at my uncle’s house during Isaias. That’s about the limit for this 5’6” body hobbling around on a bum leg. Of course, if some other sucker were to cut a monster oak into firewood length where all I had to do was split and stack, I’d probably put on my big boy pants and pony up
Not yet I should just go for it next spring rather than more roadside scrounging near my work. There’s probably an entire season’s worth of wood left at the neighbor’s. I’m sure he’d appreciate it.
Im game whenever you want. Been bugging me leaving a job unfinished! Yeah, there's some serious firewood there for sure.
Those rounds are huge! My back is hurting just looking at it. Oak is all we have around here so never questioned it but you are right, it takes a long time to properly season.
Nice biggun. I'll take all the oak I can get but I understand the dry time for selling though. Prior to about 10 years ago I had never had any oak. The main farm I cut on just did not have oaks. Always cut cherry, beech, maple, ash and lots of locust. Farmer then bought a few other farms and I also started cutting on a relative of the farmer. Got into oak a plenty. A big percentage of my replenish this year was red oak.
I kinda sorta understand not wanting one that size; but not wanting it because it is oak is a head scratcher
I dont think i wouldve taken it if any other species. Couldnt have anyhow at the time. PU had the ladder and other stuff in the way.
