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Could anyone help with identifying these logs. They were harvested from a jobsite in Hendersonville, NC. Hoping to have these milled for some fine furniture. The logs are nearly 3' in diameter and range from 10' -12' in length.


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The bark looks like white oak to me. Hard to tell.

For my two cents up here in Northern Minnesota, the logs in the pictures look like they could be white ash - they could be white oak, don't know if there is white or green ash where you got these from.

From what i found it might be red maple.

Thanks Alot Mr Mom

It's definitely a type of oak. The medullary rays are a dead giveaway. Now what type of oak, is another question. As WVUFAN said, the bark looks a lot like white oak. If it was an ash, it would have the distinct diamond patterned bark. The wood may not be too great, based on the decay around the outer part of the logs. I had some like that, and it had a real cheesy odor to it after sawing it up. Some of it was ok after drying, but the smelly wood was still smelly after drying. Mine was red oak. If you have a saw, I would saw it up (quarter saw if you can) and see what you get. If you have to pay someone to saw it, I don't know.

Very true, good point WB. Of course, if one had one of those huge super-duper hydraulic mills they could slap that big boy on there and just slice away. I"m really surprised you haven't come up with some kind of mill stretching gadget to get another 5 or 6 inches out of that NW. Let me know when you come up with one. I could use one too.