16 - jrider 12 - buZZsaw BRAD 12 - JPDavis 10 - isaaccarlson 9 - Buttermilk 9 - Eric Wanderweg 6 - High Plains Hoarder 6 - 203coffeeman 5 - 828woodministry 4 - Chud 3 - Sandhillbilly 3 - T.Jeff Veal 1 - billb3 1 - wildwest Updated leaderboard
Add black birch and beech to my list. Scrounged yesterday. Wasnt thinking and shouldve showed a couple splits flipped over to show bark.
Seems like a fun idea for this competition/thread, I probably won't play because, although I cut a ton of different species, I'm a bit of a "wood snob", only saving the premium stuff for myself. As of this year so far I haven't split a single round....lol. but I've already got a pile of locust rounds, crimson maple, and and red oak will be coming into the pile this week. I took down a decent sized dead crimson maple yesterday and saved 8 big rounds of that for myself, it'll get split and stacked beside the pizza oven for summer cooking because.they'll be split into 2×2's and they'll season out quick.
Yes, Eric nailed it. Basically a Norway maple with beautiful large burgundy leaves, which are burgundy from the day they pop out in the spring. Very good firewood in my opinion, basically between red maple and sugar maple as far as burning. I kept all the big rounds (8 in total) and got several of them split this evening into 2x2 splits, they're getting stacked next to the pizza oven. They should be seasoned well enough by Sumner for good use out there cooking.
I have one of those in my front yard. Shortly after we moved in, over 40 years ago, the central leader was broken off in a storm. Now it isn't very tall but it did spread out and the trunk is highly twisted. Leaves turn green in the fall
Lots of cleanup after last weeks storm means CSSing wood I don't usually go after: 1. Blue Oak 2. Live Oak 3.Digger (Gray) Pine 4. Buckeye 5. Manzanita and from helping out my friends in the higher elevations: 6. Ponderosa Pine 7. Lodge Pole Pine
16 - jrider 14 - buZZsaw BRAD 12 - JPDavis 10 - isaaccarlson 9 - Buttermilk 9 - Eric Wanderweg 7 - Dok440 6 - High Plains Hoarder 6 - 203coffeeman 6 - 828woodministry 4 - Chud 3 - Sandhillbilly 3 - T.Jeff Veal 1 - billb3 1 - wildwest Updated leaderboard
Do I need to post pictures of mine. If so I may fall down the list because I've sold some species I don't have hand to get pictures of.
River birch and black birch are different species. Never have heard of them as the same. River has flaky bark and black has the typical horizontal "lines".
This is a case of regional names causing serious confusion: Betula lenta - Wikipedia Betula nigra - Wikipedia The scientific name for what you and I and most people in the northeast would call black birch is betula lenta. Further south and found more commonly in the wild is what we would call river birch, (betula nigra) but locally they might call it black birch. The Latin word betula means birch and nigra means black.
