Welcome to the forum Jutt. Yup, it is one of the white oaks. Also cut with a very dull saw by the looks of it.
Well, Dennis is correct about the saw, I had hit the ground at some point and dulled the crap out of my chain Nice catch Dennis. Good call on the white oak variety fellas, to be exact its Gambel Oak or scrub oak. Just happens to be some of the larger scrub oak I've dealt with as usually this stuff is 2-3" diameter bushes. I realize this is the size of the branches on the oaks y'all have back east but it's pretty much the only kind of oak we have out here that's native. I responded to a CL ad and the guy has an entire stand of this stuff. Around 25 trees or so of this size. I was able to get a pretty decent load but would like to get more...of course. Few more pics:
That's primo firewood there Jutt. Never experienced "scrub oak", but deal with white and chestnut oak quite often. Does scrub oak have that heavenly vanilla aroma like the other white oak species? Looks to me like a great score there!
That looks like it will heat you good. You are right about oaks running a little bigger in the east. A good one will be 2-3 cords, not inches.
Nice job- don't feel bad if you become an oak junkie. Having to let it season for a few years just forces you to keep cutting. Welcome to the site!
Looks like a good find and welcome aboard. I too like your avatar pic. 2 of the things I love the most, a good looking dog and a nice pile of firewood. I burnt a small bit of white oak last year along with some red, this year is going to be a red and white oak winter. Guess that's like a red Fall and a White Christmas.
By the way I love reading the craiglist stories, around here you don't see much for decent stuff on craigslist, everybody that advertises around here it seems their pile of limbs has gold plated bark or at least you'd think so.
Its a white oak family the species is juat different. So it will smell the same. They all have Tyloses in the fibers, round lobed leaves and 2 year maturing acorns. White oak, post oak, chestnut, swamp chestnut, sand post oak...there all white oak? Fagacea quercus sp.
@DexterDay , @Scotty Overkill what the heck happened to my post? My latin name is all jacked up...I did not mistype, I proofed my post?
Nope look at the log. Its spelled right but when I post it puts that garbage up thats there. Its spelled right . Promise.
Look at how boys spelled in this pic. That is the correct spelling well maybe a letter wrong? But no where close to what's showing up. Its auto changing it when I post?
