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Title: What is this stain on oak?
Post by: kelLOGg on July 26, 2021, 07:17:16 AM

A friend and I picked up 3 oak logs yesterday cut from a dead or dying white oak. The smell is quite unpleasant. It is about 15 feet up and about 20" dia. What caused it?

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Title: Re: What is this stain on oak?
Post by: moodnacreek on July 26, 2021, 07:22:44 AM

Looks like there was a fire one year. That must be the butt log.

Title: Re: What is this stain on oak?
Post by: kelLOGg on July 26, 2021, 07:27:23 AM

It is the butt log - 15' up.

Title: Re: What is this stain on oak?
Post by: tmbrcruiser on July 26, 2021, 08:09:14 AM

Looks to me like the bark was damaged by something, maybe another tree falling. At that point the tree began healing it's self covering the open wound. The smell is likely a bacterial infection.

Title: Re: What is this stain on oak?
Post by: kelLOGg on July 26, 2021, 08:17:29 AM

Here are more pics. Damage from a nearby tree makes sense.

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/13036/IMG_0006.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1627301766)

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/13036/IMG_0007.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1627301768)

Title: Re: What is this stain on oak?
Post by: moodnacreek on July 26, 2021, 12:55:27 PM

You already knew.

Title: Re: What is this stain on oak?
Post by: kelLOGg on July 27, 2021, 04:52:48 PM

The first log made a nice cant which I sawed to 1 x 13s. The stain was not extensive.

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/13036/IMG_0012.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1627419068)

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