Red Oak rounds

[kmcinms]

Oak rounds

I posted this in the chainsaw forum last night and forgot to post it here. I love cutting oak and splitting it into firewood so much, I'm posting pictures of it on the internet :msp_scared:
I needed a log to test my freshly rebuilt saw in and found this one.
It measured out at 39" x 12.5' long. Around 32" on the other end.

The 61 didn't mind the 24" bar buried in that solid oak and cut with authority :msp_smile:

I know there's some firewood fanatics that can guesstimate what's in there as far as split wood goes.
Who wants to guess how much stacked firewood I'll get out of it?

20" length Should get 7 rounds out of it.

 

[Art Vandelay]

I love those big rounds, seems most folks are scared off by them. Those bigger older trees seem to split easier than the same species in the 20 to 24 inch range to me.

 

[TreePointer]

0.8 cord (4/5 cord)

If I guess right, please send me a set of those wheel weights you have on your tractor.

 

[chucker]

depending on how you stack it? more than a 1/3rd and less then a 1/2 cord... that is cut, split and stacked between stakes in 16" lenghts and no criss crossed end stacks! 16" = 4' x 10'x 16" and 20" = 4' x 8' x 20"

 

[Jed1124]

Red Oak?

Now I don't mean to be a stickler. and that sure is a nice 61, but that there sure looks to be white oak to me.

 

[davec]

Yep, sure is WO

 

[kmcinms]

Woodmeisters unite

Boy, I love wood. You guys are making my night. I should have mentioned that my son and I have already made another cut in the log and split two rounds of that RED OAK. :msp_biggrin:

Y'all have worse eyesight than I do..:msp_unsure: but keep up the guess work and I'm gonna show you a surprise. White Oak has a rough bark and rough grain when split. Red oak is a darker gray than white oak bark and is RED inside when you split it :msp_w00t:
Please keep the species lessons for your buddies that don't know what you're working with.:msp_tongue: On a side note, white oak smells like a stale mule fart when you bust it open, where red oak has a pleasant aroma that gives you a feeling of accomplisment.

 

[Jed1124]

I can't say I have ever picked a wood species fight. But I wood (no pun intended) bet my left nut that what you are cutting is white oak. Stink oak or in my part of the country, piss oak, it smells that way when ya cut it, is red oak. That their wood is White OAK!:biggrin:

 

[kmcinms]

Maybe it's the pics. I should have said a light gray flaky, scaly bark for white oak.
That's definitely red oak I'm cutting. I wish we were standing by the fire with a beer and looking at it, but that ain't happening. So, you win the internet contest. :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[4seasons]

I've got to agree with the other posts. What is in those pics is White Oak. Red oak has a deep textured bark where is white oak is a thin flaked bark like is in the pictures. Chestnut oak also has a deep textured bark and is super easy to split, were as water oak has a bark that is almost a cross between red and white oak and smells just like tom cat pee. Red oak has a sour smell when split and white oak has a very faint smell.

I live in an area where oak is the dominate hardwood. I have lots of white oak in my wood stack, with red and chestnut oak as well as some hickory and locust. I learned a while back that red is good as long as you don't mind the smell, white is good as long and you can wait for it to dry out (takes at least 2 years to burn good in my area), hickory is great if you can keep the bugs out of it, and locust is great as long as you can keep your grandpa from yelling at you for not using it for fence post::wink2:

 

[kmcinms]

You may be on to something. :msp_unsure:
The bark is thin on that trunk. It's been rolled and moved around on that lot so much it's hard to tell. Could be Chinquapin, which is a white oak species.
Keep guessing the wood pile this'll make. let's just call it a big arse oak and leave it at that.

 

[davec]

No, son, THIS is red oak...
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I think you simply have your reds and whites reversed. Red oak smells like vomit when you cut it. WO smells like a nutty toasty smell.

 

[kmcinms]

No, son, THIS is red oak...
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I think you simply have your reds and whites reversed. Red oak smells like vomit when you cut it. WO smells like a nutty toasty smell.

Yup, red has coarse, deep bark and that trunk I posted doesn't, but is redder than he!! inside. Don't know what I was drinking, cause I just cut and busted a huge red oak last week. Mia Culpa.

 

[TreePointer]

We all have brain cramps from time to time. Come to think of it, I usually loosen mine with whiskey aged in charred white oak barrels.

 

[nrford]

White oak all day @ any hardwood grade mill. 25 years as a lumber grader/sawmill-owner/timberbuyer, gives me the expertise, 100+ million boardfeet worth!

 

[audible fart]

White or Red, I scrounge them both. I'll tackle huge logs like that as long as I have my maul& 2 wedges with me. I'll take a round that size& split it into 4 more liftable pieces. Then I stack them as tight as possible in my Tacoma and drive around with a stupid grin showing off my oak score.

 

[Circle B MN]

I'll take 20 to 30" rounds anyday over cutting a mess of 8's.

 

[Intheswamp]

Just under a cord.....9/10th of a cord.

 

[wackydeejay]

Based on the estimated weight of that log and the average weight of a cord of white oak, I'm going to say you will get right at 1 full cord out of it. Depending on how loosely you stack, it might come out to a hair more than a cord as far as space is concerned, but it won't be less than a full cord.

 

[stihl sawing]

Nice log, Whatever it is it will make some good firewood. I love those big oak rounds. Much faster to get a truckload. Great score, Thanks for the look.