Stumbled across a big pile of this on a job site this morning. All the oak I’ve picked up here in Savannah is much darker inside and this is really light. Please advise.
Possibly the devil’s wood aka Blackgum. My advice is to take one piece home and try to split it. If it’s close to impossible to split you have verified it’s Blackgum and you can let the rest of the pile rot.
Another vote for black gum. I wouldn't take more than a couple rounds and only so you can say you've tried it.
Doesnt look like any type of oak and after reading the other replies I agree with the gum verdict. I found some a few years back. Tried a few rounds and it was miserable to split.
Saturday morning I’m gonna split some and I’ll post my layman’s opinion. I’ll include pics to show if the splits were easy and clean or busted up and nasty. I’m hoping it’s oak as there’s about a 1/2 cord in 6’ sections neatly laid out on this job site. Concrete guys will be there Monday pouring footers for a CMU foundation and offered to load them on the trailer for me.
Do you split by hand or machine? Do you burn much wood, or need it? If you can split it, it'd probably burn better than a snowball....
Due to arthritis, the gas splitter is my best friend. Between the fireplace, smoker, and fire pit, I can go through a good bit. I’m really trying to take advantage of the downed oaks from Hurricane Helene and the wood I find on the construction sites I visit daily.
Splitter would probably do ok, but not clean or pretty. I don't think I would cook any food with it... But then again, I've never tried....
Sicilian Suspect welcome aboard! I’m not no tree ID expert, but I know a basset hound when I see one. I love your avatar picture. Does that hound have a name?
Thank you, glad to be here! The Basset is Winston, my two year old. He was about seven months in that pic. I also have his grandmother Elle (she’s 8) who is mom to his mom. Between the two, they’re quite a handful.
Mine too!! Nothing better than a pup that loses it's dignity!! Kinda reminds me of the get-ups that my parents used to dress me in for our fancy Easter clothes pictures at Grandma's (gotta love the 70's)
They look about as happy as those types of pics with kids. Pretty sure our dog would go into a frenzy and attack whatever 'landed' on her like that....
I see what looks like a sweetgum leaf on the ground in one of the pics. Bark also looks like sweetgum. I wouldn’t rule that out. Are there any sweet gum balls on the ground where the tree was?
