Applications: It is not possible to list all the possible applications of oak. The wood can be used in almost every industry and almost everywhere, for construction timber, in shipyards, bridge construction and waterworks, as well as in the chemical industry, the furniture, toy, sports articles, bodywork and agricultural machinery industry. Also for frames, windows, doors, parquet and strip floors, plywood and veneer, fenders, bridge decks, chutes, railings, wagon and ship floors, church furniture and tools. Domestic oak is used specifically for construction timber (restoring old buildings), window frames, beams, industrial floors, ladder rungs (ash is better), ship keels and skins, sleepers, fenders, bridge decks, piles, lock gates, dolphins, quay walls, etc. European oak is irreplaceable for the manufacture of barrels for wine, sherry, cognac and other alcoholic beverages that derive much of their flavour from the tannic acids present in oak.