Don't think I've ever seen stringy white oak.I split some white oak a couple of weeks ago with a hydraulic splitter that was sooo freakin' stringy. Reminded me of that elm pic that gets posted here from time to time. Glad yours was easier to split! That will make some great BTUs when seasoned!
I've got plenty of Red Oak types that need to come down but the Whites are pretty healthy. The only one I've gotten recently was blown down in a storm...Luck dog! White oak! I don't get much of that.
Here's an old adage I heard " white oaks have rounded leaves like the round face of a white man. Red oak leaves have points like the arrows of the red man " I m guessing that holds true. Its what I've been going by anyway.:D
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I read something similar to that here . . . and it has always helped me remember the difference between the two.
The difference was that in colonial times the white man mostly used round musket balls -- white oak = rounded lobes. The Native Americans ("Red men") mostly used bow and arrows with sharp points -- red oak = pointed lobes. Not sure if this is entirely PC, but it works as a memory device.
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