After Hurricane Katrina I spent a fair amount of time in Hancock County Mississippi. We had access to an outdoor woodstove to heat shower water for volunteers. There was a lot of yellow pine available but the preferred wood type was downed Live Oak. Man that stuff burned a long time! Anyone here have access to the stuff? How does it burn when dried? We were using pretty green stuff that ws blown down by wind or washed down by storm surge. Looking forward to replies.
Live Oak is great burning wood! I burn a lot of it. The downside to it is it never grows straight. I take anything down to 3" and my stacks don't exactly look like anything you will see on Youtube. My experience is it burns hotter and longer than the Blue Oaks we also have around here. Brad
Have some that was cut two summers ago I think. It is still super heavy. The wood is about as dense as any wood in my region. A homeowner bucked it and rounds were short but I took it anyway for my personal stash.
I burned it it south carolina. Like dok440 said, it is never straight. I use to take my dog to the angel oak in Charleston. That thing was huge. He would climb it. Wish I could find the pictures. edit. It was on the internet . Pretty popular now I guess.
I'm a southern UK wood chucking guru who loves me a lump of oak. High winds brought down this seriously diseased oak in the park I work in...It's harvest time! Cheers, Bob
We saw it this past Sept. Yes, it is huge The length of the limbs was amazing I was standing at leaves when I took this picture We have some type of oak on our place that keeps green leaves year round, dad called it live oak, might be a type. It grows fairly straight. Cut some years ago. I know it was heavy.
Laurel Oak is semi evergreen and Water Oak is semi evergreen in warmer climates. The Angel Oak is an awesome sight. There are some big ones around Savannah too. We have a few Live Oaks around here, but I heard it’s a beech to split, so I’ve never grabbed any.
Our water oaks loose all their leaves. It might be laurel oak. We have seen those big ones in Savannah. We saw theses huge ones at Boone Hall Plantation in Charleston, same trip to the Angel Oak.
Processed the Oak from yesterday. All housed in the tool shed at work. Got a lot more to harvest, but the weather has been unkind for me today. Cheers, Bob
Never burnt it, but we had a massive one in our yard in Conway, SC. It was a beautiful tree. We had a 1/4+ acre lot and it overhung much of it, and some of the neighbor's yard as well. We loved it, he hated it, but couldn't cut the overhang as it was protected by city ordinance. Edit: Photo
It was from Zillow. As usual for real estate photos, perspectives are skewed, but is quite a tree. (Of course nothing like that Angel Oak.) It shaded about half of our house, the detached garage, and a portion of the neighbor's house. When it dropped branches, they were like tree trunks.
I have plenty of straight growing oaks to make firewood where I live but I certainly appreciate the beauty of a Live Oak. The Angel Oak in SC and the Airlie Oak in NC are two of my favorites.
That’s my old neck of the woods, Angel oak is on Johns Island, there are several beautiful plantations in the area. Countless really large live oaks. The shame is it was really beautiful before Hugo tore the place up in’89. Savannah hasn’t had a hurricane in a long time, her oaks are big. When I lived on St Simmons Island same with oaks and hurricanes as Savannah.
I have to say those are some remarkable pictures of oaks in different places. Nothing like that around here I can tell you that.
