The Forestry Forum

My dads having a tree cut down soon. A tree company today told him the tree is a sawtooth oak tree. I've never heard of it. Do you guys mill them? What are the boards good for? I've thought about keeping the logs and having them milled but I can't find much information about that type of oak. 

It's a type of White Oak, originally from China but now naturalised in some parts of the US. 

Can't see much about the lumber online, but if you have a good log, I'd say treat it like White Oak. The wood has a tendency to split, probably if dried too fast, like other White Oak species. Maybe quarter saw, and dry it slow?

Wikipedia suggests using it for fence boards, where it should be durable, and a few splits wont matter. 

ahh,

thank you. I was told it was part of the red oak family. It is decent size. I'll take a closer look at it when its cut down and decide if I want to deal with it or not. 

The leaves have bristle like teeth.  This puts it into the red oak group.  Heavy acorn producer and was planted as a wildlife food source.

There are many, many varieties of oaks, of which most species are red oak, there are only a few white oak species.  A good way to tell a red oak from a white oak, is that the tip of the leaf on a red oak will have a little point/bristle on it.  White oaks have rounded leaf tips