Old oak

[dakids]

Cut some fire wood today. Not the biggest oak we have ever cut up but might be the oldest.  Top broke off 2 years ago.  It was the smallest oak in a group of 4 trees.  Some of the tightest rings as well.  It's a red oak.

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[Iowaboy1]

Nice!
By looking at the rings that tree has seen some good years and some very lean years, too bad it couldnt tell you its history in spoken words!

[Jerkbiat]

Some pretty looking wood to. Would make some nice clocks.

[Dotch]

Very pretty! At first glance, you wouldn't think it was that old. Enlarging the pic, there are lots of rings.

[glenn57]

that one sweet looking piee of oak!!!!

dakids, how thick is that piece?? maybe slice one off the other end???? sand that sucker smooth to get the grain to really show. add a bunch of finish on it and make a clock!!!!!

[Jerkbiat]

that one sweet looking piee of oak!!!!

dakids, how thick is that piece?? maybe slice one off the other end???? sand that sucker smooth to get the grain to really show. add a bunch of finish on it and make a clock!!!!!

That is exactly what I was thinking.

[fishwidow]

That’ll be some great firewood after it seasons.

[glenn57]

we had a huge black walnut at home growing up. a place in iowa said it wasnt worth driving that far for the wood. dad was good friends with the guy that owned the lumber yard in town at the time so he took the wood. he made some dandy looking gun stocks out of some. dad sliced a big piece, carefully dried it so it wouldnt crack, but eventually did.  but it made a sweet clock.

i took some smaller brach stuff, cut it thin and made  some things that you hung keys on. still have them and gave all the kids one!!!

that oak could make nice backboards for different critter mounts too!!!!

[dakids]

It's 1.5 inches thick.  Thinking about a nice end table for the new cabin

[Bobberineyes]

That is neat DK, we cut an Ash tree like that but shoulda took care of it. It eventually got chucked up for smoking wood...

[glenn57]

It's 1.5 inches thick.  Thinking about a nice end table for the new cabin

not sure how dead it is........but might want to take some precautions so it dries slowly so it wont crack!!!!! just based on what we had happen to the black walnut!!!

[dakids]

I sanded, got the wood wet to easier count the rings and used an app as well.  Tree sprouted in 1782.  241 years old.

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[mike89]

that's really cool dakids!!!   

[glenn57]

that's really cool dakids!!!   

x2 really super cool!!!!!!!

[deadeye]

Nice, not many people realize just how old some of these trees are. Amazing how they are still standing.

[Bobberineyes]

Neat stuff DK! Did it read the same all the way around? I might hafta try that app. Oh by the way, how many rings did you count with a naked eye?

[LPS]

Interested in that app.  I have the big ash I would like to do that to.

[Steve-o]

We had a big ash tree in the front yard we cut down.  It had strange growth were the main trunk split and half of the tree angled off at 90 degrees before it started its upward growth again.  Basically it was lopsided.

When we cut it down, on one side of the trunk the growth rings were tight.  On the other side of the trunk, the growth rings were 3/4" to 1" wide annually.  The tree must have thought it needed the extra wood on one side to compensate.  Weird.

[dakids]

Neat stuff DK! Did it read the same all the way around? I might hafta try that app. Oh by the way, how many rings did you count with a naked eye?

I counted 3 times and came up with 237, 242 and and 241.