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live oak as firewood
Posted on 5/8/15 at 1:07 pm
Posted on 5/8/15 at 1:07 pm
I have a huge live oak that fell in the woods on my property. Ive heard that live oak makes great firewood but it is a bitch to split. any chance I could find someone to come cut it up for firewood? Im dreading dealing with this because this tree is fricking huge. 
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Posted on 5/8/15 at 1:12 pm to diat150
Posted on 5/8/15 at 1:23 pm to diat150
I've done it and even with decent hydraulic splitter it's a PITA, especially near knots or branch offshoots. Burns as good as any well dried oak.
Posted on 5/8/15 at 1:24 pm to diat150
quote:
I have a huge live oak that fell in the woods on my property. Ive heard that live oak makes great firewood but it is a bitch to split. any chance I could find someone to come cut it up for firewood? Im dreading dealing with this because this tree is fricking huge
How my 77 year old dad would handle this: Cut up the tree for firewood and then split it all, by hand, with a double bladed ax. All this while ignoring the maul I bought for him and refusing to even discuss renting a log splitter.
How I would handle this: Set tree on fire.
Edit to add: No, I wouldn't. I would just walk around tree when I went that way and watch it slowly rot over the years.
This post was edited on 5/8/15 at 1:25 pm
Posted on 5/8/15 at 1:40 pm to TigerDeacon
quote:Sounds like my dad. When I rented a ride-on trencher to install 400' of 3" pipe for electrical service, he brought a shovel and called me crazy (was thinking lazy). I almost offered him a teaspoon.
Cut up the tree for firewood and then split it all, by hand, with a double bladed ax. All this while ignoring the maul I bought for him and refusing to even discuss renting a log splitter.
Posted on 5/8/15 at 1:48 pm to diat150
quote:
a bitch to split.
yea good luck splitting that. Sounds like a job for Downshift
Posted on 5/8/15 at 3:37 pm to jorconalx
Downshift don't split live oak
Posted on 5/8/15 at 3:49 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
It's a very twisted grained oak. It can be spilt hard yes but very manageable. Make sure if you do it by hand to stack the pieces when you spilt them. Makes it easier. Or just rent a good splitter.
BTW I'm the man's Dad in post above. Spilling wood is a challenge to me, well used to be I'm older now hahahahaha.
BTW I'm the man's Dad in post above. Spilling wood is a challenge to me, well used to be I'm older now hahahahaha.
Posted on 5/8/15 at 4:10 pm to diat150
Live oak sucks to split because it usually has knots all in it, and the grain usually twists around. It also barely burns when it gets rotten
Either way, wood is wood. It's good exercise
Either way, wood is wood. It's good exercise
Posted on 5/8/15 at 4:12 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
quote:
Downshift don't split live oak
so you're speaking in 3rd person now?
Posted on 5/8/15 at 4:20 pm to diat150
Make sure you have about 5 chains for your chain saw. That stuff is very hard to cut and harder to split. A guy dropped off a 20 foot trailer full of logs to our camp last year from a tree they cut in his yard and gave it to us for free. After we started cutting it I realized why.
Posted on 5/8/15 at 5:58 pm to jorconalx
quote:Dawg thinks that's funny.
so you're speaking in 3rd person now?
Posted on 5/8/15 at 7:12 pm to diat150
cut it up and let it dry for a few months, then split it.
Posted on 5/8/15 at 8:48 pm to hardhead
IMO it is okay firewood. I have burned a bunch from an ice story a few years ago. it burns but doesn't throw out a huge flame, it kind of just glows red puts out heat but doesn't make the typical huge fire you are used to with other oak varieties.
Also its a son of a bitch to split!
Also its a son of a bitch to split!
Posted on 5/8/15 at 10:01 pm to diat150
Opelousas, huh? Hmmmmmmm. In town or somewhere near?
LC
LC
Posted on 5/8/15 at 10:37 pm to LongueCarabine
quote:right outside of city limits on the west side. if you are interested in it let me know. Ill snap a few pics of the tree, but it is massive.
Opelousas, huh? Hmmmmmmm. In town or somewhere near?
LC
Posted on 5/10/15 at 9:57 am to diat150
I have seen sparks fly off the wood when putting a chain saw on it. The lumber from live oaks was once used for hull of ships.
Posted on 5/10/15 at 10:32 am to yattan
Too much slack in the chain or they hit a nail
Posted on 5/10/15 at 11:06 am to diat150
only white oak puts out more BTU's, or so I've been told.
extremely dense.
good luck.
extremely dense.
good luck.
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