What Kind of Tree is This?

Looks like a pretty good size one. You hiring someone or trying to tackle it yourself?

 

I'm getting it myself. It's in an area with a nice clear spot to drop it with a small lean in the direction I want it felled. Worse case scenario I use wedges and wedge it over.

 

Well good luck! Take !

 

I am thinking willow oak due to the limb pattern and bark.

 

Oh I planned on it. I'll probably have it down tomorrow.

 

Looks like there's a few trees around - you thought about some rope for plan C? I've had em hang up, and that's no fun. You'll wish you had a rope in it then.

 

Bark looks pretty similar. But I've never dealt with willow oak before.

 

I have about 100' of line if things go bad. Biggest thing is it's pretty far from the house, and any power lines. (about 200')

 

I have a few in my yard and some around the farm, but I have never burned any. There is some in my stacks for 3 winters from now. It is in the white oak family and wood ducks prefer the acorns.

 

Alright nice, opposite branches so we know for sure its either Ash or Maple. I'm going to say maple but this is such an odd case, the branching is so strange, it almost has branching like a pine would, a large main trunk with smaller branches coming straight out. The bark doesn't look like a dead ringer for any maple in particular, I would say maybe red or silver? Strange tree.

 

About the same as white oak on the btu's then? Provided it's actually willow oak and not red maple, not the red maple is bad.

 

The branching pattern greatly resembles red maple. Wish I could get a picture of the leaves but they're under 2 inches of snow.

 

I have a plenty of red maple that are branched like that. They like to send out root suckers too - I think I see a few around the base. It's one of the most common trees in this area; I've never seen a willow oak around here.

 

Red Maple is pretty low in the BTU chart but then again it's free and it dries quicker than oak.

 

For everyone mentioning a species oak - how can it be oak if it has opposite branching?

 

I guess red maple too. I burn a lot of it. On the positive side, Splits great by hand!

 

That thing is only 20 feet tall? Looks taller than that from pictures. I would be curious to see what the exact length of that is. And will you give us some pictures of blocked up and splits? Does everyone think it is Maple? Good luck and should make some decent BTUs.

 

Well tomorrow I work 3pm to 3am tomorrow so I might get it felled, limbed and partially bucked but I doubt I'll get it all done in one day.

 

But I'll get pics of a good days work.

 

Good luck man. Be safe in the slippery white stuff. I love cutting in the winter with no bugs and no heat! Move slowly and like I learned from some of these fine folks. Put the brake on each and every time you move around with the saw. Ya never know.