Anyone experimented with Turkey Oak....?

[wills-mill]

Will,

I have milled up a couple of Turkey Oak logs and frankly it was a waste of time and effort. I still have a couple of big logs sitting in my wood yard but they are going to become firewood when I get time. As a timber the grain is very coarse, very unstable in drying with a lot of splitting going on. Also appears to be a surprising number of blind/internal knots and bark inclusions.

If you want a look at some milled stuff you are welcome, I'm only 15mins or so from Gatwick.

Keep it for fence posts would be my advice.

Alan

Alan, you don't have a wood yard on an estate near Ardingly do you? I might have spoken to you at the South of England Show, your name rings a bell.

The one thing I wouldn't do is use it for fencing- having seen how felled butts decay I wouldn't trust it at ground level.....

Thanks for all replies, please send a half bottle of Wild Turkey to the usual address for test procedures.