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I've these big oaks around my house sway 10 feet in a high wind .Makes you kinda wonder but they've been doing it a couple hundred years . That one kind of surprised me with the amount of rot .I've seen them just die on the vine so speak .You cut the things down and even on a 3 footer they are...

Well yeah sometimes you have to act interested weather you are or not .Kind of like "faking " it ,well sort of in another way .

Don't get to hastey on firewooding it if you've a mind to save it .It's oak and it will weather a long time before it degrades to unusable . Crib it up on something like a piece of the lower limbs and paint or use roofing tar to seal the ends .If say after a couple years you don't find a use...

Once you get above all that cracking there still might be a nice log you could do something with .

Actually you could most likely bandsaw it and get some usable lumber if you choose to .You'll have some loss but that's just firewood more or less .

Now of course I'm not there to see but that tree which appears to be a white oak is not really that huge for an oak ..On that size in my own personal experiance I've not seen one that were hollow .Now a fat old 4-5 footer ,all knobby ,yes . I guess you'll soon find out though one way or the...

My guess is lighting also .The damned stuff turns the moisture under the bark to steam instantly .