Making sure this is oak before putting it in my smoker

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I’m going to try and toss it in the smoker and cook some steaks and fish. This is the wood I originally asked about and some thought it was elm. We will see in about 1 hour how the meat turns out. Smoke stack smells pretty goodC8D40D1A-EAC3-48A8-B802-7636A3CB41C5.jpegCE21B722-B81F-4B65-B998-DEC9A6B4B3B1.jpeg I know oak does this. B496E4F1-3D9D-4DCD-AA27-35E9F813E5B7.jpeg
 
Peeled the bark back on some elm and found this. Nothing like the wood above which I’m starting to think it’s oak after moving this wood around today and looking at it better.i know this is trademark oak when it does the lines like this. I sell this wood for a pretty price is why I really wanna know so I can make some money off it. I tossed it in with the normal firewood but figured I’d test it tonight. B18DA595-0ADC-4706-9886-86D0756EFB3E.jpeg23A1681E-0C09-43C3-B066-803CBBD8F0AC.jpeg8D2CCFB9-3BCA-4146-AC34-7F16751A1ADD.jpeg
 
Turns out it’s good cooking wood and I think it’s oak. My dad said it was very good and he liked the smoke flavor. I ran out of propane and had to start it with butcher paper and it took a while so it will be definitely more Smokey then normal. B5E353A6-3569-47D7-B991-CC944FE4A54A.jpeg5CEE1FE9-D9F7-4A97-AB3D-9D600825368E.jpeg A9C0C8F8-8D9A-424E-8A80-8D311F00FF4A.jpeg2B16EAD6-D789-48A3-AFD4-7E42604D7BCA.jpeg The fish took little longer since I’ll cook it to 145 instead of 127. I tossed the steaks in the warming oven for about 5 minutes and they over cooked. Figured it would happen since there skinny steaks
 


I made this amazing video today.
View attachment 616128 View attachment 616129 can everyone see the black marks on my trailer. The first picture is from where my wheel barrow rides upside down. The second pic is where this board set on top of the frame when it was flipped over the other way. I want to note the trailer deck is pine.

And you ad to do all that because they couldnt take your word for it!!!!!!!!! Maybe they should look closer!
 
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