I found the next victim

[hackberry jake]

I found a red oak yesterday that didn't make new leaves this year. About 40" diameter or so. I need to have @RPowers come out and quarter it with his CSM. I'll try to drop it sometime this month and see if its solid inside.



 

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Nice tree but it makes you look older.  ;D

[hackberry jake]

That there's my pappie!

[SawyerBrown]

Wow, nice victim!

[drobertson]

Not sure about your area, but very few over 20" red oak around here are solid through and through.  the beetles, bores and such will take the life out of them.  I had a forester come through last week and make an assessment on my timber for a cost share improvement action.  Lots of flagging on the red oak, and some white oak, which I already knew, but wanted a professional report.  There will be some quality boards and some with lots of desirable worm holes.   

[gfadvm]

Is that a blackjack? Bark looks like it. Our dead blackjacks have some beautiful color but most that big are hollow. Hope yours is solid with no big black ants in residence.

[WDH]

I thought that it was a blackjack oak, too.  Knobby bark.

[Larry]

#3 on the Blackjack.  It will have color you may not believe but it doesn't behave as nice as red oak.

[WDH]

The ones down here retain the limbs even after they are dead, and they are bad knotty.

[hackberry jake]

Bad picture, but most of the limbs have fell off. I dont know all of my oaks other than red or white...


 

I should've been on the other side of the tree.

[JB Griffin]

4x on blackjack on count of the knarly bark. It's MURDER on saw chains, but I've never sawed(milled) any.

[hackberry jake]

Ive been doing some research on blackjack oak and most sites say they are small, short lived trees living under the canopy of other trees... I'm glad you guys know better. I just hope it looks like larrys blackjack! Wholly cow!



 

[YellowHammer]

Wow x2

[mad murdock]

That will be worth the work I bet.

[customsawyer]

 

[kelLOGg]

That there's my pappie!

What's he gonna do? dig it up?  ;D
Bob

[kelLOGg]

Wow x2

and if it would stay that way after drying Wow x1000000.

[shortlogger]

just south of Fort Smith there is large amounts of Blackjacks we cut a Place just East of greenwood where 90 percent of the trees were Blackjacks most were solid but I hate all the little dead rock hard limbs all over them and the also have really hard bark but they often have some neat woodgrain designs 

[hackberry jake]

Happy birthday shortlogger

[mesquite buckeye]

If'n you're lookin' for pretty wood, ya gotta put up with the extra work. (old saying') ;D 8) 8) 8)

[teed]

wow  8)

[shortlogger]

Thanks Jake .

[woodyone.john]

And Wow from along way away!

[Alligator]

Please post pictures once you saw that log!

[hackberry jake]

That was a picture of one of Larrys logs. I still havent felled mine. Im afraid it would float away if I felled it now. We've got about a foot of rain in a week.