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Swamp chestnut oak
Swamp chestnut oak (Quercus michauxii)

Family: Fagaceae

Common names: Cow oak, Cucharillo, Encino, Encino negro, Mamecillo, Oak, Roble, Roble amarillo, Roble colorado, Roble encino, Roblecito, Swamp chestnut oak, White oak

Distributed in: United States (North America)

Distribution overview: This species occurs in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Illinois, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia. The tree is usually found on moist sites including well-drained, sandy loam and silty clay flood plains along streams. It sometimes occurs in pure stands.

Common uses: Cooperages, Core Stock, Crossties, Decorative veneer, Domestic flooring, Factory flooring, Figured veneer, Flooring, Foundation posts, Fuelwood, Mine timbers, Parquet flooring, Pile-driver cushions, Piling, Plain veneer, Poles, Posts, Railroad ties, Stakes, Sub-flooring, Utility poles, Veneer

Product sources: Swamp chestnut oak is one of the members in the white oak group that are mixed and marketed together. White oak veneers are plentiful, and supplies of lumber are also abundant. Price of lumber is moderate, compared to other hardwoods.

Environment profile: Rank of relative endangerment based on number of occurences globally.

Tree size: Trunk diameter is 100-150 cm

Colors: the heart isGrey, Pinkish tinge and the sapwoodWhitish to light brown , Width varies .The grain isOpen , the textureMedium to coarse

Natural durability: Very durable Wood produced by members in the white oak group is highly regarded for its natural resistance against attack by decay fungi and other wood destroying organisms. Logs are highly vulnerable to attack by ambrosia beetles, and standing trees and logs are also readily attacked by forest longhorn or Butrespid beetles

Odor: No specific smell or taste

Kiln Schedules: US=Upland T4-C2/T3-C1

Drying Defects: Ring failure, Surface checks

Ease of Drying: Thick Stock Requires Care

Blunting Effect: Moderate dulling effect on cutting edges

Boring: Very good results

Cutting Resistance: Generally medium but is variable

Gluing: Satisfactory gluing properties

Mortising: Fairly Difficult to Very Difficult The material responds very well to mortising operations to produce clean surfaces

Moulding: Fairly Difficult to Very Difficult

Movement in Service: Fairly Difficult to Very Difficult

Nailing: Pre-boring required, Wood is heavy and hard

Planing: good

Resistance to Abrasion: Highly resistant to wear

Resistance to Impregnation: Sapwood is moderately resistant

Response to hand tools: Softer wood produced by slow-growth white oak trees are reported to generally easier to work with hand tools

Routing recessing: Fairly Difficult to Very Difficult

Sanding: Yields clean surfaces

Veneering qualities: Selected white oak logs are converted into veneers. When quartered, white oak veneers exhibit a flaked figure, while the very popular straight line figure is prominent in rift cut veneer

Steam bending: Highly regarded for steam bending properties

Screwing: Generally good properties ; Turning: Very good

Staining: Liquid from some finishing products, especially those with high water content such as bleach and water-based stains, react with tannins in white oak to turn the wood green or brown. ;

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Item Green Dry Metric
Specific Gravity 0,59 0,64
Density kg/m3
Bending Strength 671 957 kg/cm2
Crushing Strength 39 76 kg/cm2
Hardness 551 kg
Impact Strength 124 101 cm
Shearing Strength 137 kg/cm2
Stiffness 105 121 1000 kg/cm2
Tangential Shrinkage 11 %
Radial Shrinkage 5 %
Weight kg/m3
Maximum Load 0,84 0,91 cm-kg/cm3
Toughness cm-kg
Static Bending kg/cm2
Item Green Dry English
Bending Strength 9555 13622 psi
Crushing Strength 559 1088 psi
Hardness 1215 lbs
Impact Strength 49 40 inches
Maximum Crushing Strength 3469 7125 psi
Shearing Strength 1950 psi
Stiffness 1499 1735 1000 psi
Work to Maximum Load 12 13 inch-lbs/in3
Specific Gravity 0.59 0.64
Radial Shrinkage 5 %
Tangential Shrinkage 11 %
Volumetric Shrinkage 16 %

Low stiffness
Crushing strength = medium
Bending strength (MOR) = medium
Response to hand and machine tools in woodworking operations is reported to depend largely on the rate of growth of trees: slow grown trees are relatively easier to work. Wood from slow growing southern trees are comparably harder than the fast growing trees from the Appalachians.

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