What to do with this white oak log?

[Nutball]

Suggestions? Looks like some burls there. Possible signs of metal. Should be a mostly solid log. How thick should table slabs be: 2", 3", 4"? Don't mind the mill in the background, this will be chainsaw milled.

 

[PA Dan]

Slabs for a table would be my choice. I'd go 3" so I could finish with at least 2.5".

 

[Mastermind]

Firewood

 

[PA Dan]

Firewood

Or this...[emoji1787]

 

[EbS-P]

How big is it? And how pissed will you be if you hit metal? I make my slabs about 2-2.5” so I can lift them by myself.

Evan

 

[Nutball]

Not my chain & I get paid to sharpen, not that I enjoy fixing rocked chains. Normally it would go to the firewood pile, but the burls would make a mess splitting and the owner wants to try getting it milled.

 

[huskyboy]

Firewood

Yup I agree… check out that shake and staining in the butt… and the sapwood appears to look punky. Looks like a genuine POS firewood log. Lol

 

[Lightning Performance]

That chit log is bunk.
Burn it unless your buying gallons of epoxy.

You want a pic of a decent white oak log that is sitting on my trailer with some bunk chit?

 

[Lightning Performance]

Oh btw... those are not burls but old cut off limbs grown over. Plus the grain is twisted in two places. It will curl like a potato chip.

 

[Cat 525]

Lots of blue showing!

 

[Nutball]

Could be machine paint, but I definitely see a suspicious little spot, and the saw I suspect they used showed some dulling. I'll see what the guy thinks about metal and dulling his new ripping chains.

 

[Cat 525]

More than machine bluing. Cut a couple inches off 7the butt and see what you got! Is it a town tree?