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Started by dad2nine, April 04, 2007, 08:00:07 PM

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dad2nine

Chestnut oak, wild orange looking stuff...

Frickman

I cut a fair amount of chestnut oak. In our area it's also called rock oak. I enjoy cutting it. It saws out with fewer defects than our white oak. Most buyers take it in the same pack as regular white oak.
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Ron Wenrich

I've been sawing 8/4 uppers in chestnut oak.  If it wasn't for chestnut oak, I wouldn't get any grade white oak.   :D

If you get chestnut oak that's growing on a good site, your quality if very good.  As you start to get up slope where the soil is thinner, the quality slips badly. 
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woodbeard

Is chestnut oak as rot resistant as ( other ) white oaks?

raycon

Chestnut oak has less tyloses plugging the pores than the other white oaks. 
I'm not sure if that makes it less rot resistant than the others or not. I'd not use
it in a boat project if other options existed.
Lot of stuff..

Ron Wenrich

My experience with white oak is to not use it untreated as a fence post.  It really isn't that rot resistant.
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WDH

I agree with Ron.  It has good outside weather resistance qualities if it is not constantly wet or in ground contact.  If it does have ground contact where it is continually moist, it will rot like most other woods.  Might take a little longer than some other woods.
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