We do get spoiled by easy splitting. Been splitting pin oak which has a lot of little knots. Tree was from Isaias and is next door to my friends where i have wood stored otherwise idve left it. You know how i feel about oak now!
I remember as a kid my father always saying pizz Oak. You'd pop it open and it'd smell like pizz. I've also heard it called Swamp Oak. I think they both refer to Red Oak. I haven't found most of the Red Oak i process to smell. I guess maybe it depends on how dry it is or where it grows. Only once in a while.
Smells like vomit to me. Nothing better than sitting in the hot tub on a nice cool fall night and smelling the nasty red oak wafting by.
I guess there is a reason the USS Constitution was made from white oak. It’s said the wood was so tough cannonballs bounced off!
The White oak I split is stringy. I keep a hatchet nearby to chop the strings, or kick it loose, or spin to split again. I can have the entire round split and every piece is hanging on. It all means extra work and why I prefer splitting red.
