Species Competition for 2024

Black walnut

 

Green (species) ash

 

Any chance that’s white walnut (butternut?) Wood has the hollow pith like black walnut but the bark and grain color looks off.

 

Ill have to check back in my older pics. It was extra limb wood from that HL score in July.

 

For firewood purposes I think they’re probably the same. I’m probably biased towards seeing white walnut because I just used some that I milled for trim around my hearth, after taking the carpet out and laying down laminate flooring.

 

I think its both BW & WW in my pic. I know I scrounged the BW (pictured) back in July and if my badly failing memory serves me correct I recall scrounging some pieces of white walnut somewhere in recent months

 

Yes similar in btu's. the splits pictured had been put aside for bundle wood inventory. Most of the BW had some twist and went in general cordage.

WTH did I get white walnut??? Driving me nuts as now I remember finding it.

 

Black locust

 

1. 34 - Chud
2. 27 - buZZsaw BRAD
3. 24 - Eric Wanderweg
4. 18 - jrider
5. 15 - isaaccarlson
6. 12 - JPDavis
7. 11 - LCBug
8. 11 - Sandhillbilly
9. 10 - TnMan
10. 9 - Buttermilk
11. 9 - 828woodministry
12. 8 - High Plains Hoarder
    
13. 7 - Backwoods Fellin'
    
14. 7 - Dok440
    
15. 6 - 203coffeeman
16. 4 - iowahiker
17. 3 - T.Jeff Veal
18. 1 - billb3
19. 1 - wildwest

Updated leaderboard

 

Mid fall and heading into winter and the home stretch... 2.5 months left in the year and this competition!

Chud has a good lead but buZZsaw BRAD has been gaining some ground. Who will it be? Or is there someone out there with a huge list (and pic of splits) who is bidding their time to submit?

 

I’m not comfortable with a one touchdown lead. Time for some offense.

 

Insurance scrounges, huh? All in fun my friend.

Hoard on and cut safe!

 

Stepson just bought a house and this mulberry should have been gone years ago. It was hardly worth splitting, but, rules are rules! There’s a much bigger one against a garage that needs to come down also, but that might not happen in 2024.

 

Eric Wanderweg would be proud! Id've grabbed it too.

 

American Beech, if this small amount counts. Had a branch fall of that giant squirrel condo in the background of this pic. One of my favorite trees on our land, very prominent old Beech.

 

Amur maple, according to the consensus of the experts here at FHC. I figured it was a variety of maple, especially after the first few splits were made.
Anyways, it’s one more species for me. I’m actually kinda impressing myself. I never thought I’d harvest/scrounge this many types of wood. Plus I’m learning and getting better at tree ID

 

Cool find. How common is any type of maple in your area?

 

The town has lots of GIANT what I’ve learned are silver maple. Yard trees. Stepson has 3 biguns at the house he just bought and one at the house he’s in now. One of the 3 at the new place is ginormous, I don’t think a 5’ bar will get through the stump.
But as far as I know thats it for maples around here. Probably some other specimen yard trees around. But no wild/ indigenous maples that I know of. Boxelders I guess are technically a maple. Some of those around, both in town are the wild.

 

Spruce. Not sure of the variety. Smelled like Christmas after I split them.