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General Forestry => Sawmills and Milling => Topic started by: whittle1 on January 01, 2021, 09:31:19 AM
I can easily recognize the difference between red oak and white oak but that is about it. Post oak, Pin oak, Overcup etc.. all become a blurr. Will any and all Oak make good flooring? The reason I ask is I have about 2000 bdft of mixed oak I quarter sawed I know some was white oak I think the rest was pin oak. It has been air drying for a few years and I'm in the process of building a kiln. Plan to dry down to 8% and then want to mill for flooring. Do you see any issues? Do any of the other oaks fall into the white oak category as far as lumber?
Post oak and overcup are in the white oak family. Pin oak is a red oak. If you're gonna use white and red oaks together in a floor, I would say either make some sort of pattern where they are separated or make sure they are randomly placed.
Do you have any Burr oak there? It grows here, and although it is a white oak, has a browner color than the white oak from Missouri.
We do have Burr oak here, but none on our place. My dad brought home some acorns a few months ago from somewhere he had gone. He said they were overcup, but they were huge. I figured out they were burr oak.