Wood ID Help

[ReggieT]

The owner is lost on it & so am I!
Heavy as concrete this log was!
Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Reg

 

 

 

[ReggieT]

Here is an end grain pic:


 

[WDH]

It is a red oak.  Most likely southern red oak, Quercus falcata.

[ReggieT]

It is a red oak.  Most likely southern red oak, Quercus falcata.

Sir, I do concur!
Just sawed it in half, split one half into about 9 pieces and it smelled extremely loud,ripe, and sour smiley_airfreshener (like classic red oak).
Split fairly easy...here are ze pics! 


 

 

[WDH]

That smell is distinctive.

[Woodpecker52]

The aroma is what moonshine is transformed into whiskey.

[Don P]

Whiskey and wine kegs, tight or wet cooperage, is done in white oak.
Slack or dry, nail kegs, is red.

If you split out a small "straw" of red oak and blow on one end with the other stuck in a glas of water, you can blow bubbles with it, your moonshine would quickly drain away. Do the same with a straw of white oak and it'll just puff your cheeks up. The cells are blocked in a white oak. If you turn up your scanner on high resolution and scan the end grain of both you can see those tyloses in the white.

As much as anything it is the charcoal filtering out the harsh oils and flavors, or so I've heard.

[Woodpecker52]

Red oak white oak still has that wiskey smell when its sawing.