Author Topic: Log identification (Read 1231 times)

VB-Milling · « **on:** September 08, 2021, 03:27:03 PM »

Hoping to ID this species. It smells sweet when milled.
Southeast Virginia

low_48 · « **Reply #1 on:** September 10, 2021, 12:26:19 AM »

No leaves, no natural color left, no clean end grain. You like making it tough!

moodnacreek · « **Reply #2 on:** September 10, 2021, 07:54:11 AM »

I see a pruned knot so it's a yard tree. Kinda white oak looking bark. A nice fresh saw cut on the surface and the end grain would make it possible to id.

mike_belben · « **Reply #3 on:** September 10, 2021, 10:21:16 AM »

white oak thats been on the ground a spell.

WDH · « **Reply #4 on:** September 10, 2021, 02:03:13 PM »

I think Mood and Mike are right about white oak. In the first pic down at 6:00 on the clock face, I see the stippling of the medullary rays. A simple look at the end grain will confirm if this is correct.

VB-Milling · « **Reply #5 on:** September 13, 2021, 07:26:23 AM »

I'll make a fresh saw cut this afternoon. Doesn't smell like the other white oak I've been milling.

Everything I have to mill are yard trees that have been down for between 6 weeks to 12 months so no leaves on anything unfortunately. Going forward, I want to be more careful about labeling and inventory.

VB-Milling · « **Reply #6 on:** September 29, 2021, 12:05:21 PM »

So I never cut a fresh end, but the guy I got it from swears its hickory. I need to cut a fresh end later today.

VB-Milling · « **Reply #7 on:** September 29, 2021, 01:05:11 PM »

Quote from: VB-Milling on September 29, 2021, 12:05:21 PM

So I never cut a fresh end, but the guy I got it from swears its hickory. I need to cut a fresh end later today.

btulloh · « **Reply #8 on:** September 29, 2021, 02:03:27 PM »

Still looks like WO. Definitely not hickory.

The beaver that chewed that off needs to be taught how to make a smooth cut.

VB-Milling · « **Reply #9 on:** September 29, 2021, 02:42:52 PM »

We're gonna call it WO and I'm going to go sharpen my chain

I guess I have no hickory

WDH · « **Reply #10 on:** September 29, 2021, 03:54:00 PM »

No hickory for you!

GAB · « **Reply #11 on:** September 29, 2021, 04:11:36 PM »

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Hoping to ID this species. It smells sweet when milled.
Southeast Virginia

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Looking at your first picture:
I'd say your sawing speed was steady and you have a blade that is missing some tooth points.
GAB

Southside · « **Reply #12 on:** September 29, 2021, 10:04:42 PM »

There have been a few Walnut trees that drop Hickory nuts, so not a surprise to find acorns under a Hickory. Heck, I even had a customer whose oaks shed needles, but that story involves a Game Warden and the beginning of a search party.

WDH · « **Reply #13 on:** September 30, 2021, 11:03:56 AM »

I have been called to buy a whack of the “hickory-walnut”.

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