big chestnut oak

[Maine logger88]

That's a nice tree! It's fun to cut stuff that size every once in a while!

[mills]

Birchwood Logging,

Do you have any luck selling chestnut oak as veneer or stave? It's probably a 60/40 shot around here.

[treeslayer2003]

Birchwood Logging,

Do you have any luck selling chestnut oak as veneer or stave? It's probably a 60/40 shot around here.

my buyer will stave or panel them, seldom veneer but hot as white oak been he prolly will now.

[timberlinetree]

I not some tree hugger but sometimes I think that if they made it this far, and its the only one left let it live.

[sandsawmill14]

a lot of time  leaving them doesnt work out so well i cut some of my own timber about 10 yrs go and only cut 1 r/o that was over 48" because it was damaging and left everything else from about 40" up last count i had lost 11   4 blew down 3 lightning strikes  and 4 had the tops broke out during a storm :'( those old big trees dont seem to fair well after timber is cut around them around here anyway

[scsmith42]

Birchwood Logging,

Do you have any luck selling chestnut oak as veneer or stave? It's probably a 60/40 shot around here.

Chestnut oak is usually not suitable for the stave market because of it's open pores.

[mills]

Yeah, here in western KY most chestnut oak grows in bottom ground or along a seep. General rule is the higher the ground, the tighter the grain.

[WDH]

Chestnut oak is usually not suitable for the stave market because of it's open pores.

Right!  Unlike most in the white oak group, the pores of chestnut oak have limited tyloses. A barrel need tyloses  .

[Birchwood Logging]

The mill I sell to quarter saws it they pay $1.20 a foot for number 1