RED OAK
Unfinished 2-1/4" & 3-1/4" Unfinished 3" 4" 5" Prefinished
Red Oak Flooring is manufactured in the following sizes:
2-1/4" Strip Flooring 3, 4, 5" Plank Flooring
Red Oak
Uses:
The wood of the red oak is largely cut into lumber, railroad crossties,
flooring, and
veneer. It is remanufactured into flooring, furniture, general millwork,
boxes, pallets, and crates, agricultural implements, caskets, woodenware,
handles, and railroad cars and boats.
Description:
The sapwood is nearly white and usually 1 to 2 inches thick. The heartwood
is brown with a tinge of red. Sawed lumber of red oak cannot be separated by
species on the basis of the characteristics of the wood alone. Red oak
lumber can be separated from white oak by size and the arrangement of pores
in latewood and because, as a rule, it lacks tyloses in the pores. The open
pores of red oaks make them unsuitable for tight cooperage.
Range:
Most red oak comes from the Southern states, the Southern mountain regions,
the Atlantic coastal plains, and the Central states. The principal species
are: northern red oak, scarlet oak, Shumard oak, pin oak, Nuttall oak, black
oak, southern red oak, cherrybark oak, water oak, laurel oak, and willow
oak.
Physical Properties:
Wood of the red oak is heavy (47lbs./cu.ft.). Rapidly grown second-growth
oak is generally harder and tougher than finer textured old-growth timber,
and shrinkage in drying is fairly large.