red versus black oak identification

[Don P]

Oaks have loose morals :

Den, that chestnut oak has no tyloses...or very few, that leaves the cells open like a red. I'm guessing thats why the drying was not normal, tight cooperage buyers don't want it, temperance wine casks :D Moisture left through the staws instead of having to diffuse through the walls.

Our local park has a gnarly butted scarlet in a stand I've posted chestnut blight pics from. They say the flared gnarly butt is from the blight too.