Don't know where you are located, but we prolly cut 80% oak in our firewood business. Normally it would be more red oak than white, but this last piece of property has had as much white oak if not more than red oak. We don't have dandy soil conditions, really the only dirty conditions we fight is when we drag tops to a central cutting/splitting "landing". Normally we do not see much of a difference between the red and white oak, but most of our wood has been off the stump for four to six months if not longer, so if it does freeze the moisture content isn't very high. About a month ago I ran into a tree I dropped that was one of the worst "wind shook" or twisted tree's I've ever run into, up on flat prairie ground by out by itself, not dirty, but it was sue hell on chains. It seemed like it took two or three times the normal amount of filing.
Depending on the soil conditions around your location I'd say that has prolly more to do with dirt or sand in the wood vs. it being frozen. We cut frozen oak all the time and don't see the conditions like you've described with this tree.