Oak Firewood STINKS!!! 

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My wife actually likes the oak smell and it really is the best firewood when it’s seasoned.

I enjoyed the video. Pretty much everything I split is Oak and I’ve never thought it didn’t smell good. Just a personal preference thing probably though

I love the smell of oak! Smells like Ketchup! Thanks for sharing another day in the life of another firewood producer! Blessings, Jeff

I met a guy that is letting me cut all tge firewood (maple & Alder) hardwoods here for the Pacific NW I want on his property. As I split it all i smell is pond water as his lot is surrounded by swap,and wet lands.. The next wood that smells bad to me is hemlock.. Douglas fir is awsom ..

I don't mind red oak, or white oak.....but I'm on the Missouri/ Arkansas border so all we get is black oak( alot of folks call it piss oak because.....well smells like pee). Kinda looks like what you have there. Twisted grain, splits like a cotton ball. Nice wood splitter you got there.

Lol, everyone has a different perspective. Personally, I love smelling the different fragrances & aromas the different varieties of wood give off during the processing. Oak has a great smell to me -- Ash has an interesting smell (less enjoyable) -- My guys always struggle to point on Poplar (I like that smell, almost a pine-like aroma), Hickory & Cherry are great -- So many neat aromas. Trees are an amazing life giver. Habitat, shelter, food source, heat. Endless giving. We need to preserve & cherish the resource, as much as we harvest & utilize it. Keep on splitting brother!!

Split a black oak and you will be thankful for red oak. Black oak smells like sewage, red oak only smells like a strong ketchup.

hi there i think your sniffer may be out of calibration. When we saw at shows everyone loves the Oak smell. But you know if everyone liked vanilla they would never made chocolate . so it good john

I get $240 a load for oak. It’s hard to come by near Chicago and people will pay because they have it like that.

The worst is when red oak has some rot in the middle. Smells like sewage! Ick Once fully dry , not as bad. Burns well though.

I prefer the smell of red oak over hickory . Hickory smells like a barnyard

I don't mind oak but locust has to be the worst in my opinion. Both great burning woods!

I agree, Cherry is one of my all time favorites. Lately I've preferred Black Cherry as my favorite. It splits even better than Cherry, and smells way better too IMO. You're right though, red oak smells like poop when it's green!

My brother in law says it smells like rotten ketchup!😂

You wouldn't like apple logs. They don't fit your business model. There hasn't been a straight apple tree grown since Adam & Eve were picking 'em!!!

I agree to a point, red oak reeks. White oak on the other hand, smells amazing to me. Almost a vanilla smell, which is why it’s used for whiskey barrels 😎 I also thoroughly enjoy processing cherry and it’s hard to beat nice straight hickory.

I have little interest in bucking those big rounds and then handling them again and again. Can’t lie to you Joe. I’m with you in spirit and living out my firewood dreams through your videos. Love the sense of humor that you display.

hi, Joe, the best firewood in our area is oak and birch, they give a lot of heat, and that's good👍

Funny your smelling that hickory, and I am smelling beer brats cooking for later for dinner 😎.

Hows come we never hear bursts of laughter from 'behind the camera' ? :) - or does your daughter just shake her head in unbelief.

Morning Joe. I will agree that red oak does smell when splitting but like to burn it. Keep up the great work

They need to some how breed a bacon tree. That would be some good smell in’ wood!

I smoke briskets here in TX and hickory would be my first choice, followed by pecan, and then, red oak. Dried, of course. Then, post oak. Red oak does put off a unique smell when cut wet, but that goes away after it is seasoned a year or more, and then it produces a great smell in the smoker. I actively study the quality of woods for smoking and do a lot of experimenting, which is really fun. I cut a lot of my own wood with permits. Honestly, apple is top notch in my book, but we can't grow much of it down here. Just got home with a trailer full of fresh cut mockernut hickory. Great video and I just subscribed to your channel.

I thought I was the only one who sniffed fresh split wood. For me it smells like wood for you it smells like money. I remember as a kid at summer camp (work camp) and loading cut logs into a trailer and the wonderful smell. What a stress free job you have.

*Ohio Wood Burner Ltd* That was a lot of fun, thank-you sir for taking the time to bring us along. God Bless.

You sort of answered your own question on hickory and apple. Firewood is the low end product, so hickory goes to tool handles. Even small trees can be used for tool blanks and due to small size of those it can be cut around knots and crooks. Also a lot of hickory goes to charcoal production. Apple is more valuable as smoking chips and chunks so why waste it as firewood when you can get more for it in it's other uses? The number one reason for oak being a top firewood everywhere is that it has the most BTUs and is widely available. Here in Missouri oak and hickory are tops for BTUs and since everything is second growth around here as we were nearly clear cut for railroad ties in the late 1800s it is abundant. I know it is different in other areas but most use what they have that is highest on the BTU charts. Sadly very few here wait the full time for oak to season. So many times I see fires with liquid and gas shooting out the ends of the logs and that sizzling sound of wet wood on the fire. And that keeps the chimney sweeps busy fighting creosote buildup. Those who cut their own in the woods often ring the base and let stand dead a year and then harvest and split. Cuts down the time in the wood lot to about a year. One often over looked is Walnut. Love it for firewood. Still decent BTU and easy to work with. But most of what I got was harvested from the tops left after the loggers took what they wanted as it is high demand furniture and veneer wood. That made the tops cheap and abundant. Usually free if I wanted to cut my own. Same with oak and hickory tops after loggers are done. Most of what I burned was four to eight inch rounds from the big limbs and only had to split once or twice. Maybe a few "long burners" unsplit at night to keep the fire banked and going.

Smells like money to me😃

Oak is a hard wood last longer for firewood in fireplace also takes longer burn time cause takes longer to dry out that’s maybe cause you don’t like but I over all it’s great for home owners

You know how to split hickory and it won't be as stringy

Agree, red oak smells rough when cur and split, after drying I don’t notice the smell.. NC

Joe, I order myself some Muck slip-on shoes for summer rains.

Ever split sweet gum....stinky wood.

That's the type of hickory that Ive had. only a half a dozen loads of bitternut, but never any shagbark. Oak stinks, especially when its rotten

Oak doesn't smell that bad. Is an acquired smell, just like the taste of certain brands of beer. My favorite woods to cut and split are pine and cherry.

I must cut so much oak I didn’t realize it had a smell. Best wood in this area for BTU’s. central Pa

I love the versatility of the Supersplit!! Just think of the smell of oak as a different form of cash. Hop that helps.

If you were to take those small hickory splits to a KCBS sanctioned contest, you would be shocked at how much you could sell them for.

We have several huge apple orchards in our area. They cut all the trees down about every 20 years in cycles. So like a 40 acre orchard will have 5 acres clear cut every 5 years in rotation. The older trees must be more disease prone or dont produce as well...They usually push in a pile and burn them. I am sure a relationship could be built to get this wood if it could be some how beneficial to the producers. 🤘 All Oak Rocks!🤘

LOL. ok my friend. Respectfully, I am challenging you to explain, with specs and facts, your position on Oak. I love you and Dan, Back 40 Firewood, I listen every week to your podcasts in support of both of you, and love your channels, but man, you don't appear to have very practical and factual information on Oak. Oak, my friend, according to two very prominent and respected Forestry manuals, have THE HIGHEST mmBTU content per cord (both white and Red), far more than any other hard wood. Far more than Maple- all species, Ash, Beech, Elm and others. I admit, that Maple is the best for coals, and Oak does not produce much secondary coal value after it is burned down, but hands down, for heat value , Oak kicks butt against the others. Rebuttal? :))

I like the smell of oak. White oak is better than Red.

Many folks will argue with you about Oak. Simply because it is the single most irrationally beloved wood for some dang reason. I have been a Very high-end woodworker for over 40 years and I refuse to even work with it anymore period. The biggest reason I wont is because when I machine it, It smells exactly like I just stepped in a fresh pile of Dog Shit!

I have cut stinky oak trees, typically climax age black oak(a type of red oak). But the varieties of white oak I have cut smell great and the oter members of the red oak family I have used smell good to me too. There are many kinds of oad and probably all smell a bit different,

Hi Joe. I converted my Super Split to electric operation. No gas and very quiet. If you wish, let me know and I'll send you the details. Shalom/gw.

Hey Joe found your channel after watching a video with you in it from Hometown Acres. Just wanted to say love the channel I can’t stop watching the videos. I know it may seem minor but I find it a huge help when you mention the type of wood you are splitting. I am new to the wire wood game and get my wood from the local dump. It can be hard trying to figure out what type of wood I get and just the quick little mention has really helped me. Thanks again and keep up the good work.

Ha Ha! I tried to cut corners once and had someone bring me a farm truck full of unsplit oak. I thought he had got it out of a feed lot it stunk so bad. I had to get it split quick before the neighbors kicked me out. It finally aired out as it dryed more and was ok but never did that again, LOL!

I like money too. I'd do anything for money. Anything. Really. Anything. Well. Except listen to you.

Saying oak stinks is wood profiling!! Only red oak truly stinks..white oak doesnt smell bad

I got two facecords of pignut hickory, cherry, and sugar maple from a tree guy. It was sold as green/fresh cut, so it was rack filler for next year. You're very right about hickory having a distinctive smell! Mixed with cherry, I had the best smelling patio around! I never noticed beech having much of a smell, but mine is probably too dry for that. Very nice looking wood though. I also like the smell of fresh cut ash- and the smoke even more so. Honey Locust is another with a strong sour, mulchy smell when green. I like it, it reminds me of hickory. (and like red oak or sugar maple, it's so hard, it can't help but split super easy.)

Good morning Joe, in the 80,s and sunshine yesterday, today raining and low 60’s Yo Yo weather! 🪵🚜👍🏼🇺🇸

Hickory is a great smelling wood…. But oak doesn’t smell bad… not as good as hickory or apple or cherry but it ain’t that bad 😊

The smell of oak wood is very mild compared to standing there and breathing in the highly toxic and dangerous gasoline engine exhaust fumes.

To each their own, I think red oak smells good, white oak not so much.

I don't mind oak but we don't cut a ton of it. I think elm smells like fiber bandaids haha

Oak firewood smells like money. 20% higher BTU'S than ash, cherry or maple

Oak sometimes smells like a barn lot to me. I split a white oak recently, only 35 years old but a good 20 inch dia... it smelled okay.

👃”Smells like money”, that’s what a buddy once told me about cow manure, I think I’ll take the smell of Oak, and it’s good for heating the house.-John

Water Oak/Pin Oak has a horrible smell when freshly split. But the smell calms down as it dries out.

I sniffed big when he held that hickory up to the camera. Wish I wasn't watching this on the toilet.

Hi Joe - it's Big Rodders in Ireland. I believe that in the olden days in the British Isles that oak was a less desirable firewood so therefore was worth less.

Oak is decent, sycamore is the worst smell, like burning pee

It is easy to see that you'v'e used the Splitter alot. Try a putty knife for the build up. Just a thought.

For me it’s hemlocks that I hate the smell of smell like poop compared to Doug fir that smells like the best Christmas tree ever

Hey Joe Red Oak is not that bad just got to get use to the smell especially when it gets on your clothes and you smell it for the rest of the evening. Lol😂 👌🏻🔥🇨🇦

I cut mostly red oak smells like corn silage. I season it 2 years and it burns hot and last all night.

I hear you about the rain! I'm not paying myself enough to be getting drenched and frozen. I'm like sugar and '70/'80s Italian cars, soluble in water :-)

Joe for sure that hickory can be a pain to split. I’ve been splitting lots of it lately take care, Ben.

I’ve always thought oak smelled like vomit. Ha ha ha I thought I was the only one

I agree oak is the WORST smelling wood.

I started to cut an apple tree Monday and got to go back and finish it on Thursday if the weather is permitted. It will make some nice wood to smoke with.

I didnt go back to a seller because i thought his wood was covered i. Dog poo.

My last home in eastern MA, oak smelled like pee. We moved to western MA a few years ago and have LOADS of red oak in our forest and it all smells like McDonalds ketchup go figure. But I love it now lol

Don't forget sassafras for really fragrant, fresh cut/split, wood

I always said hickory smells like horse manure when you splitit. I could smell it. I just got done splitting some today too.

wet oak smells like pee, but once it's dry smells good when it burns.

If all you had was balsam and poplar you would appreciate that oak you have

Everybody has their own preference I love the smell of oak

i was going to ask where youre located and then i read the channel name im dumb.

Oak smells good to me

Andrew made a comparison between the Super-split and the Ultra. The Ultra did the job in about half the time because of the 4-way wedge. Think thst would be a better option than the Super-split? Probably depends on your operation and the Ultra is a lot heavier to maneuver by hand but is even quicker.

I moved out of Ohio for two reasons. Rain and snow. If it is not raining, it is snowing.

LOL! I love the smell of oak. Hickory is by far my favorite though!

Joe you rock bud. great video love the little pine tree on the oak.

oaks the best firewood tgakes long to season but very good burns hot and long

I'm confused. Do you or don't you like the smell of oak wood?

Love the antics Joe ! to me its how it smells when its burning is what counts !

Good morning Joe! Have you ever split sycamore? Talk about stink! The best smelling wood is cherry hands down! Love my SS!

What species of oak is it the bark looks way different From the oak out here ? Here in the west coast we have massive black oak and valley oak that smells amazing while your cutting. . Splitting and burning

Wondering why firewood producers lag the market when it comes to raising their prices in concert with other energy producers during inflationary times like this(?). I suppose it has to do with over-supply and a customer base that is much more price sensitive. Probably also has to do with firewood producers valuing their inventory at the past cost-to-produce rather than their current cost-to-produce. It won't be long before firewood producers costs will equal revenue and "firewooding" will have to transition to a hobby rather than a business if the market can't adjust. In would be an interesting case study. Comments?

Thanks for the video Joe. You need a small canvas carport over your super splitter, of coarse if it rains you can always read a book and drink Dr Pepper

Walnut gives you chimney fires.

And Apple is my favorite wood to smoke with, too..

No wonder cords are 300....you touch it way to much

Is this firewood for campers cause they are thin?

Keep a cordless drill with you and a wire brush to keep the crud off your beam

WERE AND HOW MUCH ARE THE SUPER SPLIT GAS WOOD SPLITERS

Elm will test any log splitter that’s for sure!

I won't say I regret selling my SS, but man we put up a lot of wood with that machine. It was an excellent tool.

Oak smells like a barnyard

Don’t know what type of oak you got inOHIO.