Been cutting on and off for a month now....It's been a great year for red & white oak here, which happen to be my favorite firewood species....Got 10 cords to split, better eat some wheaties!

nice looking wood

I love burning oak, high BTU's and for whatever reason it doesn't produce as much ash as other species.

I'd rather use white oak for woodworking though, it's my second favorite wood right behind walnut.

Nice job. The best splitting wood you can find in my opinion. I have a little over 5 cords of red oak stacked right now. I wanted 3 more cords but ran out of time catfish are starting to bite and mushrooms soon to be popping ,have to wait till fall now lol

It does split real nice ozark trapper ia, and like Lugnut said produces little ash.

Like it aged/cured 3 yrs, then it throws a ton of heat & coals well.

Neighbor has a tree disposal service, so it's been a real boon for cheap BTU's.

If you ever get the chance, you should try splitting it when it's about -20. Splits so well that it's actually fun for awhile. Lol.

Lol, it would be a cold day in hades before it hits -20 in Kentucky Big Sam, but would love to give it a try!

Pretty straight, not bad to split by hand but I still prefer my splitter, I like it to burn.

I would be in traction

Red Oak bark will dye traps a deep black
Just saying

Mr Kentucky are you loading all those by hand? I pretty much gave up lifting anything 22 iches and up anymore. I noodle them halfway through and a wack or two with the maul makes it alot easier for me.

Thats a nice load of wood and a good workout.

Those rounds in the trailer are 100# plus, so I roll them up with a atv ramp...Only lift them so far to stack on top of each other....In my 20's, 30's, 40's lifting those would have been very possible, but that was decades ago, Lol.

Working with wood will harden you up, and slim the waistline, but a ibuprofin is needed if working a continous string of days....wetdog is right when he says red oak bark will blacken traps, it's a great dye.

That's about all I'll bother with. Any Nut or fruit tree wood.

Must have been a nice lookin log. You might have been able to sell it and with the money buy cut wood. But if you are like the rest of us, you probably like cutting splitting and stacking wood......jk

I can smell those pictures. The tannins in red oak give it a really distinctive smell.

Keith

I havent got started on our firewood for this fall yet. After our banquet this weekend I will start cutting and splitting once again. We only have cherry wood on my place for the most part. A little elm but near all of our woods are cherry. Just stopped burning a few days ago.

I like the smell of oak.

Left mine go out Sunday morning. I may light it again next Sunday, they're forecasting 29 overnight.

And 89 tomorrow.

I could smoke a ton of sea salt and peppercorns with that wood for my Santa Maria seasoning.

Nice haul, we brought a fraction of that much back from Texas this Spring.
I let the hubby split it for me, lol.