Shingle Oak Advice

[Joe Mioux]

The city is replacing Sewer lines behind my business and a track hoe just came through and yanked out Shingle Oak. This is probably a 25 year old tree and the trunk looks really good.

Are Shingle Oaks worth cutting up for boards?

Thanks
Joe

[Steve Clardy]

Joe. My experience with shingle oak, is it doesn't make good boards.
The grain comes apart, kind of a shingle effect.
I had a woodmizer LT-30 for ten years, and once sawed some shingle oak for a customer. Within an hour or so, the grain on some of the boards was seperating. He ended up cutting it up for firewood.

[Rob Will]

That's how it got the name Shingle Oak.....it splits easily. The settlers used it for shingles but probably not for rocking chairs. :)
Makes a nice landscape tree though.