Red Oak "Odor"
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HUSKYMAN
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There must be something wrong with me, I love the smell of cut red oak. My property is full of it and I enjoy the smell of every cut.
You guys can send all the piss wood over here that you want to get rid of
You guys can send all the piss wood over here that you want to get rid of
After 25 years of marriage i would love to give the wife some perfume that smells like red oak. Might even get the energy and interest to do some splittin. <a href="http://www.sweetim.com/s.asp?im=gen&lpver=3&ref=11" target="_blank"><img src="http://cdn.content.sweetim.com/sim/cpie/emoticons/000203F4.gif" border="0" title="Click to get more." ></a>
Best post I have read in years. I'm in stitches.
David Y.
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I love the smell of the Red Oak I cut. White Oak is good too. I just cut one of each up yesterday. The 80 with a 28 inch bar on it was in bucking and noodling hog heaven! I only stopped for a break to shoot a couple Wood Ducks. It was a great day in the woods!
Hard to beat MN in October.Between hunting( ducks, bow,upland), great fall walleye bite, and cutting wood, the days are too short.
KodiakKen
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I have to add a little more than just smell
my neighbors wife.......is allergic to everything. My cousin had a red oak dropped and chipped everything 4" and smaller..I hauled the rest home. had a total shi*load. my blacktop drive is 2 trucks wide and 100 foot long and it was blasted..before I had a logsplitter..thank god oak is like pine when green. I have to agree..when it is saturated it smells like dog SHI*. my neighbor had to close their windows and turn on the air. oops..so sorry..let me know what your heat bill is..hahahahhaa. but in all seriousness..it goes away and makes for awesome firewood. once dry for about 2-2 1/2 months it will lose most of the smell..cover the top only..to keep the mrs. happy..find some walnut or cedar..hell even pine..noodle it up and put some in a holey pair of nylons and keep next to the woodburner
my neighbors wife.......is allergic to everything. My cousin had a red oak dropped and chipped everything 4" and smaller..I hauled the rest home. had a total shi*load. my blacktop drive is 2 trucks wide and 100 foot long and it was blasted..before I had a logsplitter..thank god oak is like pine when green. I have to agree..when it is saturated it smells like dog SHI*. my neighbor had to close their windows and turn on the air. oops..so sorry..let me know what your heat bill is..hahahahhaa. but in all seriousness..it goes away and makes for awesome firewood. once dry for about 2-2 1/2 months it will lose most of the smell..cover the top only..to keep the mrs. happy..find some walnut or cedar..hell even pine..noodle it up and put some in a holey pair of nylons and keep next to the woodburner
David Y.
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The Walleye bite was not good for me this fall, which sucked as I got a new fishing rig(Alumcraft 165 Classic with a 75 Yamaha 4stroke) earlier this month. I will be ready for the Spring though. Duck hunting has been getting odder every year lately, they seem to hang out longer up North and pass through quickly. Deer hunting will be odd this year also. Lots of corn where we hunt, and all the wet weather has slowed the harvest. Maybe we'll walk beside the combines and shoot them when they bolt out! Wood cutting has been good, 4-5 cords of big Red and White Oak chunks that I'll split next Spring. Love the new 28 in bar and chain from Bailey's.
There is a lot of great stuff to do.
Soilarch
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Seems like it depends a lot on what type of soil the tree's in and what type of health/condition the wood is in. I know that I don't mind some red oak's I've cut up. I also know that the most disgusting tree I ever cut on was a HUGE red oak that had had its crown broke out of for several years. Like the original tree in question it was wet enough that a single hit on a wedge brought a puddle up out of the wood. (Talk about h-e-a-v-y!!!)
Smelled like straight-up vomit. I thought I was being a wuss until I got in my truck the next day to go to class...even my truck had picked up the vomit smell. And it was still a very strong, pronounced, no-questions-about-it vomit stench in my truck!!
Spent 3 days cutting on that log. About 40".
I cut a lot of red oak and after it dried I couldn't tell you which pieces came from that tree and which ones didn't.
Smelled like straight-up vomit. I thought I was being a wuss until I got in my truck the next day to go to class...even my truck had picked up the vomit smell. And it was still a very strong, pronounced, no-questions-about-it vomit stench in my truck!!
Spent 3 days cutting on that log. About 40".
I cut a lot of red oak and after it dried I couldn't tell you which pieces came from that tree and which ones didn't.
What grows mostly around here is Black Oak and people (including myself at 1 time) call it red oak as the wood is red. Even the lumber industry markets it as red oak as its in the same family. I worked in a nursery and true red oak is differant leaves, acorns are larger. I am not to familiar with the true red oak which is a bit differant wood but the black oak I cut varies in oder. Most of it smells like silage to me some more , some less, and now and then I get 1 that smells similar to puke. Pin oak about the same. Trees with decay and holes get water soaked and I believe that makes it worse. Some times trees in a particular spot are worse mabe something in the ground, water quality or something makes it worse. Any way Black oak and Pin oak are probably near 2/3 all the firewood I cut because it is the most plentyful and grows faster then white oak. I sell most what I cut and I try to get plenty of air drying time split on stronger smelling trees and seldom have a complaint. My sense of smell doesn't seem to be as sensitive to it as some, sometimes if I am not sure it has an offensive smell I'll put a couple split sticks in the truck cab and try it a couple days + get another opinion.
mtfallsmikey
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OT sorta...The smell I really miss is the old-school Hoppe's gun cleaning solvent.
willis09r
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I may have told this story before but it's funny so.......
I had a firewood bin that I kept in the dining room. Was down to stinking oak and knew it stunk, but didn't think much of it until the wife told me we had a dead animal under the house that I needed to get rid of. She said it smells like it's right under the dining room. I then realized it was the oak, burned it all by the next day or so and told her i got the animal out.
Fearing she was gonna hollar about not having a fire if it was going to stink up the house, I didn't tell her the truth until I remembered much later.
I had a firewood bin that I kept in the dining room. Was down to stinking oak and knew it stunk, but didn't think much of it until the wife told me we had a dead animal under the house that I needed to get rid of. She said it smells like it's right under the dining room. I then realized it was the oak, burned it all by the next day or so and told her i got the animal out.
Fearing she was gonna hollar about not having a fire if it was going to stink up the house, I didn't tell her the truth until I remembered much later.
howellhandmade
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Exactly! The oaks in my back yard were black oaks, but it seems everybody I talked to about it had never heard of black oak, and it doesn't show on most of the firewood rating charts. Here's one of the stumps -- a fairly strong-smelling one, as you can imagine. The other tree was larger and not hollow, but had a wet depression in the crown and the whole center was wet and punky. It smelled even stronger.
Jack
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And pretty much a waste of time, btu-wise.
NeoTree
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Wow i thought everyone enjoyed the smell of oak, i cant get enough of it. maybe it's becuase i've grown up splittin it. Around here we call elms piss elm, altough i dont mind it either. Maybe i need my sniffer checked.
David Y.
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I cut and burned some Box Elder a few years back. Smelled like I was burning cow dung. I was surprised that no one complained.
Forget Box Elder
Box elder is a big weed that belongs in a swamp. Not only does it smell bad, it doesn't burn worth a ... :censored:
