Could I get some help please?

[gofer]

I picked up a large load of this tree that was just cut down. I was told its a variety of oak but I'm not sure. Could anyone confirm that? Pretty heavy, reasonably easy to split with fiskars but a little stringy, Tx

 

[moondoggie]

White oak

 

[USMC615]

^^^ I'd agree. Nice score on the wood OP.

 

[unclemoustache]

I was thinking hickory - I'm burning stuff that looks just like this - does it leave a lot of ash and coal up a lot?

 

[Streblerm]

Doesn't look like oak to me either. I'm not seeing the porous grain common to oak. The white oak I run into tends to be more uniform of color. I'm inclined to agree with unclemoustache. Looks more like some sort of hickory to me.

 

[Oldmaple]

I'm voting on the White Oak side. Bark is textbook White Oak. Will tend to be a little stringier than Red Oak

 

[babybart]

The darker heart tells me hickory.

 

[blacklocst]

The darker heart tells me hickory.

I've seen White Oak having a dark core also.

 

[sunfish]

Looks just like the White Oak we have here. Definitely Oak & not Hickory.

 

[Gugi47]

White Oak Definitely.

 

[rpowell]

looks like elm to me

 

[lone wolf]

White Oak is what I see.

 

[sunfish]

looks like elm to me

It's not Elm.

 

[Stlshrk]

Another vote for the white oak here.

 

[Zale]

White oak. Enough already.

 

[mn woodcutter]

Huh. Well apparently I'm wrong for the first time in my life! When I saw the pictures I thought maple.

 

[lone wolf]

Huh. Well apparently I'm wrong for the first time in my life! When I saw the pictures I thought maple.

Are you looking at one piece in pic 4 causse that could look a little like maple but look at the rays on the end

 

[Iska3]

When I first looked at the pictures, I'm thinking like mn woodcutter and thinking Maple.. The bark looks a little rough for white oak and it has a lot of holes like the bugs were working their way in. At the least I'd say some is Hickory.. It would be interesting to know how well this coals up.

 

[Tiewire]

I'm gonna have to go with white oak also.

 

[mn woodcutter]

Are you looking at one piece in pic 4 causse that could look a little like maple but look at the rays on the end

I will take your wood for it.