Outdoor Wood Furnace Info
All-Purpose OWF Discussions => Fire Wood => Topic started by: CountryBoyJohn on March 17, 2014, 06:58:29 AM
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I cut two trees this weekend that upon looking at the bark I thought was a red oak or a pin oak. After cutting, the outer 1/3 of the wood was white and the inner 2/3 was pink. Sap was coming up so the wood was really wet to the point that moisture actually sponged out from the splitting wedge. It was really stringy like the red oak I split last summer. But, it had a different smell. Now that most of that saturated moisture is gone, all the wood is white now. Almost as white as my ash wood. I'm 99% positive it is oak from the fiber patterns. But it's not red oak.
What do you guys think? White oak? I could snap some pictures tonight.
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NICE burning stuff, I just cut some yesterday!
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White oak can be stringy stuff. It will be lighter in color than the red oak and it doesn't smell like cat piss like red does. Pictures will help.
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I am thinking it was red oak. Red oak is white on the outside, pink in the middle and when it dries, it dries to mostly white.
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White oak can be stringy stuff. It will be lighter in color than the red oak and it doesn't smell like cat piss like red does. Pictures will help.
In my personal opinion red oak smells more like fresh dog poop...
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White oak can be stringy stuff. It will be lighter in color than the red oak and it doesn't smell like cat piss like red does. Pictures will help.
In my personal opinion red oak smells more like fresh dog poop...
lol I think so too! I can't remember what type of wood I was burning about a month ago but it smelled like when you pee in the sauna. Don't lie, I know all of you did that at least once as a kid haha!
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White oak can be stringy stuff. It will be lighter in color than the red oak and it doesn't smell like cat piss like red does. Pictures will help.
In my personal opinion red oak smells more like fresh dog poop...
lol I think so too! I can't remember what type of wood I was burning about a month ago but it smelled like when you pee in the sauna. Don't lie, I know all of you did that at least once as a kid haha!
Could have been piss elm.
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Take some pics when you can!
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Put a little bit in a tightly sealed ziplock bag and send it to Air Force POL, I bet he can distinguish what it is, anybody who has peed in a sauna did not do it just once and won't mind the smell, AFP, I have done some rough things in my life but never that, you could consider that bag of piss oak to be a trophy for admitting that one.
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Dont put it in a baggy use a water sample jar with a few drops of water too retain freshness dehydrated cat piss is alot easier too tolerate
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Whaaaat??? I thought every kid had done that? Maybe my older brother was just a bad influence? Lol
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Ok. Pictures. The last picture is 100% red oak from last year. After looking over the internet, I'm leaning towards pin oak.
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That wood have a skunk like smell to it?
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It stunk like oak for sure, but not the same as the red oak.
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Maybe it is pin oak then? I don't have pin oak up here in NH..Too me is looks like a red oak..Ive had red oak smell funky due where they grew up..Its def not white oak for sure..Bark color and the inside wood is whiter to a brownish color..Wood you got is more towards a pink color..
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I would guess red oak...since it is red and all...
should look like the inside of a red texas graprefruit in color...
Burns the best.... My number 1 preference for wood.... That and Locust....
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In my strictly non professional opinion Pin oak is a red oak, I think there are several varieties of red and white oak. And the bark on the wood you have a picture of is what I would call a Pin oak.
That is the same kind of tree my Loggy Bayou tree climber stand lost its grip on about 15 years ago and if I hadn't had a safety harness on it would have been bad. As it was my face smacked into the side of the tree and bloodied it up a little.
I don't climb those any more especially after a rain.
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No professional opinion needed. Pin oak IS a red oak. I believe I do have a Pin Oak. But, it was the lightest colored red I've ever encountered. I wouldn't have even classified it as pink. Despite Mr. CentralBoiler3200User's brilliant analysis, I do believe it is a Pin oak, mainly from the look and texture of the bark.
Thank you all for you input!
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I would agree on pin oak. I have it all over the place here. Red oak usually has better look to the grain. The pin or black oak types usually have more knots and split a hair tougher than red oak. It's all good for burning though - not much difference once in the stove.
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Are you sure it oak? For some reason the pics look like black cherry to me?
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Pin Oak and it grows fast and dies young for a Oak tree.
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Looks like pin or black oak. Very similar to red oak. I have lots of pin and it can be a little stringier than red, but still great stuff. Smell can be variable, although usually smells better than dog poo in my neck of the woods.