loger soaked by oak

[mike p]

was logging a white oak on our place the first limb was at 10' was limbing it after downing tree & the chain saw became a fountion of brown water from the tree i have never seen more than a cup of water come out before
the tree was hollow from 9'6"& up & holding water must have been 10 gals pored on me via the chain saw sling it
tree was 30" + at 3' above ground as we had to trimm a lot to get the mill head to pass
this tree had no bell at ground .
out of ground & straight up 4-5' befor it started to taper

[Frank Pender - AKA "Tail Gunner"]

I'll bet it was not very thirsty during the Summer.

[Stevem]

Is that what they call Water Oak?

[Frank Pender - AKA "Tail Gunner"]

The tough ones are when you cut into them and red stuff comes out of our Oak and it is not water.   

[Carl Middleton]

We had a big red oak come down last year in a tornado it to was full of black water I did a under cut and let it drain for what seemed like 10 min But was still a mess to cut

[mike p]

i sawed a large spalted /rotten maple it had a copper head snake in it

[Frank Pender - AKA "Tail Gunner"]

NOw,tht would be spooky, Mike.

[Kirk Allen]

I think the only log I cut into that had red stuff come out was a oak with a family of racoons.  Someof them did not survice the opening face cut