Any idea what type of red oak this is?

[GeneralKayoss]

Got some red oak rounds I've been chainsaw milling into cookies. Just curious, but do any of you guys have an idea what species of red oak this is? And it appears to have spalting all through the heartwood as well, but was only cut a few weeks ago as far as I know. Just trying to figure out exactly what's going on here for future reference if I ever turn these into tables. Pics aren't the best, I can take some closer ones tomorrow.

 

[jellyroll]

Looks like the heavy kind.

 

[GeneralKayoss]

Looks like the heavy kind.

Had to break out the cant hook to roll them around. And thank god for slick plastic bedliners, they slide right out if you back up and slam on brakes lol

 

[jellyroll]

Had to break out the cant hook to roll them around. And thank god for slick plastic bedliners, they slide right out if you back up and slam on brakes lol

It doesn't look like the red oak around here. Looks as those it's diseased.

 

[GeneralKayoss]

It doesn't look like the red oak around here. Looks as those it's diseased.

Yeah, it's got the fungus. Probably end up a crumbled cookie but we'll see.

 

[Seachaser]

If I counted the rings correctly, looks about 40 years old. May have to use something like epoxy to keep the cookies together. Pretty wood!

 

[Woody912]

Got some red oak rounds I've been chainsaw milling into cookies. Just curious, but do any of you guys have an idea what species of red oak this is? And it appears to have spalting all through the heartwood as well, but was only cut a few weeks ago as far as I know. Just trying to figure out exactly what's going on here for future reference if I ever turn these into tables. Pics aren't the best, I can take some closer ones tomorrow.

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Looks like one of the evergreen water oaks, willow oak, peach oak or maybe others.

 

[NeSurfcaster]

bark is a lot thicker and rougher than red oak around here. I'm gonna go with some other kind of oak but looks nice. Hopefully it stays together for ya

 

[Lightning Performance]

bark is a lot thicker and rougher than red oak around here. I'm gonna go with some other kind of oak but looks nice. Hopefully it stays together for ya

It's just an upland scarlet or Northern red oak. He is at the bottom of natural range for them.

 

[GeneralKayoss]

It's just an upland scarlet or Northern red oak. He is at the bottom of natural range for them.

I think you may have nailed it with the northern red oak. Bark looks exactly the same. I'm right on the edge of northern oak range but there's def some around here, I've seen this stuff before.

 

[GeneralKayoss]

If I counted the rings correctly, looks about 40 years old. May have to use something like epoxy to keep the cookies together. Pretty wood!

Closer to 50 I think. These came out of a different part of the same tree. And yep, I fully plan on having to epoxy some of them. Coated them all in end grain sealer, we'll see in a year or two!

 

[buzz sawyer]

Pretty wood. I'm surprised to see the amount of spalting in the center. I would prepare to install some bowties as they dry. They will almost certainly crack in a couple years.

 

[GeneralKayoss]

Pretty wood. I'm surprised to see the amount of spalting in the center. I would prepare to install some bowties as they dry. They will almost certainly crack in a couple years.

If they do, I'll make resin river cookie tables out of them. Never really liked the look of bowties TBH.

 

[pdqdl]

I don't know of any plant taxonomy books that are sharp enough to identify an oak tree by the bark alone. Perhaps a few varieties with very unusual bark, but not often.

I would argue that anyone that thinks they can ID an oak from the pictures of log sections is just fooling themselves. In this thread, we don't even know where the pictures were taken, but I guess we are presuming from Pinetown, NC.

Looks like one of the evergreen water oaks, willow oak, peach oak or maybe others.

I am not familiar with those oaks, and I made a pretty long list.
https://www.arboristsite.com/threads/how-many-oak-varieties-are-there.136293/post-2447483
Also here: http://oaknames.org/search/goodnames.asp
Peach and willow oak seem to trace down to the same species.

 

[GeneralKayoss]

I am not familiar with those oaks, and I made a pretty long list.
https://www.arboristsite.com/threads/how-many-oak-varieties-are-there.136293/

Yeah I think there's like 90-100 different oak varieties that grow in the US alone.

 

[ElevatorGuy]

Cute little red oak, This was the last one we took down in my yard. Had to tip this over with Johnny and noodle it into 8 chunks to move it.

 

[GeneralKayoss]

Cute little red oak, This was the last one we took down in my yard. Had to tip this over with Johnny and noodle it into 8 chunks to move it.

My mill is only 30" so I got what I could handle lol. These are some I cut down into firewood this winter. Giant oak and pecan.

 

[GeneralKayoss]

Tried to get some up close pics, didn't turn out too well