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re: live oak as firewood
Posted on 1/18/22 at 1:07 pm to diat150
Posted on 1/18/22 at 1:07 pm to diat150
My FIL told me he had a bunch of wood from a free that fell during Ida. Sent my son to go pick it up and turns out it’s live oak.
This Champion 7 ton splitter I have doesn’t want any part of this shite
This Champion 7 ton splitter I have doesn’t want any part of this shite
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Posted on 1/18/22 at 1:26 pm to diat150
Posted on 1/18/22 at 1:55 pm to FelicianaTigerfan
Hell of a bump…2015
This post was edited on 1/18/22 at 1:56 pm
Posted on 1/18/22 at 2:21 pm to pdubya76
Surprised it was not locked.
Posted on 1/18/22 at 2:23 pm to AlxTgr
My post on the first page still holds true.
Posted on 1/18/22 at 2:42 pm to TigerDeacon
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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 is how my broke arse HOA handles it.
Posted on 1/18/22 at 2:51 pm to pdubya76
Started looking up why this wood grows the way it does and this thread popped up
Posted on 1/18/22 at 3:23 pm to FelicianaTigerfan
I google stuff and TD usually pops up first .
Posted on 1/18/22 at 9:21 pm to diat150
It sucks. Takes forever to dry out and hard as hell to split. More trouble than it’s worth in my opinion.
Posted on 1/18/22 at 9:29 pm to Hammertime
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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
Must be an in-bred cousin of pecan.
That wood is the toughest, gnarliest thing I have ever tried to split. Great smoking or fire wood, but it is tough as shoe leather.
Posted on 1/19/22 at 4:38 am to jorconalx
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so you're speaking in 3rd person now?
George likes his chicken spicy.
Posted on 1/23/22 at 9:44 pm to FelicianaTigerfan
I split a live oak a few months ago. That stuff has some nasty grain. It'll be great camping firewood next winter but it was definitely challenging. Even using the 25 ton splitter we rented, we had to be be precise with the wedge placement. It was worth it to me as I got a few cords of wood out of the tree and I saved money on the haul off fee when I had it cut down.
Posted on 1/23/22 at 11:20 pm to SpeckledTiger
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I split a live oak a few months ago. That stuff has some nasty grain.
I lost several during Michael, including a couple that were 150 years+ according to the arborist. I had a bunch of it milled for woodworking projects and the irregular grain is really pretty, but I also saved some for firewood and it’s crap for that. Hard to split and if you season it outdoors it tends to rot and just sorta glow in the fireplace. It’ll burn well if it’s super dry with no bark but I don’t have the space to keep a couple of cords indoors.
Posted on 1/23/22 at 11:35 pm to Flats
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irregular grain is really pretty,
And ultra strong. Live oak is amazing stuff with so much cross-grain. Thsts why it can get so old and big and hold up those giant transverse limbs.. It does make it impossible to split though.
Posted on 1/24/22 at 6:52 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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And ultra strong.
It’s what was used in Old Ironsides. I quickly learned that hand tools weren’t going to work when I made my first bowl out of it, and it went through several saw blades when I was having it milled. Hated to lose those trees but I’ll have some forever pieces that come from it once I bump up my skill level a bit.
Posted on 1/24/22 at 9:09 am to diat150
If I have to cut it down, it's going to end up in my wood stove one way or another. So far this year, I've burned oak, willow and sycamore. If it drops leaves, it gets split and dried.
Posted on 1/24/22 at 1:36 pm to diat150
Live oak is the BEST firewood! Burns super hot and long.
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