Species Competition for 2024

For a New Year, how about a friendly competition?

Who can bust the most different species for the year 2024?
* Buck and split at least one round of wood (per species) into minimum 4 quarters
* Take a picture of the split round to submit for each species
* Add pictures to this forum. Points will be added by your name periodically on the forum
* Each different species is worth 1 point
* Submissions can be posted up until 11:59:59 Dec 31st
* Whoever has the most points at the end of the year wins

Winner gets... bragging rights? Lol, I dunno. You can add the title under your name: 2024 FHC Species Smasher Champion

 

Example of Submitting a picture for a point. (Black Walnut)

FYI This doesn't count for me, just using it as an example

 

That good because that looks like honey locust to me.

 

Lol It very well could be. It wasn't my picture, just used a stock online picture and the title given to it.

 

I was gonna say, that's the reddist HVBW I've ever seen!!

buZZsaw BRAD with his roadside and neighborhood scores, and the folks who cut at municipal dumps, should all have about 20 points by now!

 

I was seeing HL as well.

 

LOL!!! Ill have to go back and see which ive cut this year.

 

It sounds like a fun game to play, but I just as well yield to everyone east of the Missouri River right now. Especially buZZsaw BRAD

 

Kick start it off (I haven't split much to begin the year) so far all I've split is some yellow poplar aka tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera).

 

But instead of uploading a pic of splits, just list off what different species you've split so far in 2024. We can keep a running list/leaderboard. Might be cool to see a running grand total of how many different species are being used for firewood

 

I’ve been working on the same Pin oak
Quercus palustris in 2024. So far this year the weather has been crap on the weekends so it’s been slow going. At least another 1/2 cord to process. The yard is smelling sweet

 

Ill play: ive scrounged eleven so far

black locust
mulberry
sassafras
sugar maple
black cherry
red oak (not sure of variety)
pignut hickory
shagbark hickory
Yellow (tulip) poplar
Eastern red cedar
Norway maple

Are you keeping tabs or should i have a running list?

 

So far this year?

Gamble oak
Arizona white oak
Emory oak
Hackberry
Mulberry
Tamarisk (salt cedar)
Ponderosa pine
Pinon pine
Alligator juniper
Utah juniper (shaggy bark juniper)
Arizona ash
Willow

I come across many varieties of wood within the city parks and lakes. Not nearly as many as when I worked for a tree service though.

 

So far this year (mostly small quantities):
Black locust
white oak
Chinese chestnut
elm
catalpa
Norway maple
eastern red cedar
white ash
black cherry

 

I’m just gonna have to watch from the sidelines

 

Leaderboard so far...

1. 12 - JPDavis
2. 11 - buZZsaw BRAD
3. 9 - Eric Wanderweg
4. 1 - Chud
5. 1 - 828woodministry

 

For me this year is red oak, white oak, cherry, black gum, sweet gum, yellow ash, white ash, eastern red cedar, and pignut Hickory. Didn't want the gum but had to take it to get the white oak.

 

What have I split in 2024...hmmm... let me think.

A banana split counts, eh?

 

Not a ton of variety in this area, but enough to get myself on the leaderboard (for now).

As of 1/29 I have hit 6 species as follows:

Eastern Red Cedar
Ponderosa Pine
Silver Maple
Siberian Elm
Hedge
Black Locust

 

1. 12 - JPDavis
2. 11 - buZZsaw BRAD
3. 9 - Buttermilk
4. 9 - Eric Wanderweg
5. 6 - High Plains Hoarder
6. 1 - Chud
7. 1 - 828woodministry

Updated leaderboard.
By the numbers:
35 total different species among 7 hoarders
Most common: eastern red cedar (shared by 4 hoarders)