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Species Competition for 2024

Discussion in 'The Wood Pile' started by 828woodministry, Jan 15, 2024.

  1. isaaccarlson

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    I quit counting because I was getting so many mixed loads. Many kinds of maple and oak, along with various other woods of all kinds. You don’t have to worry about me putting in a last minute list. I’m too busy hauling wood home and getting ready for winter.
     
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  2. Chud

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    +1 Swamp White Oak
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  3. buZZsaw BRAD

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    I have a standing dead one my friend wants me to take down. Been a skeleton for several years now. I keep talking myself out of it.
     
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  5. 828woodministry

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    Just over a month left to go!

    Sorry that I haven't been updating this post as often as I originally planned. Life has been full speed ahead.

    As far as things going in Western North Carolina post Helene, there are many parts around the Asheville area that look very much "back to normal" We are on a well so our water situation was fine after we got power back (8 1/2 days without). Folks with Asheville city water were on a boil water advisory for 7 weeks due to contaminants. Helene did a number on the water lines at the reservoir. Places like Chimney Rock, Garren Creek and Swannanoa are still in very bad shape.

    And the trees that we've lost... They have reopened portions of the Blue Ridge Parkway and there are many places driving by where the forest looks thinned out. There are areas NE of Asheville around Mount Mitchell where the entire forest of trees had blown down. Mount Mitchell recorded wind speeds of 102 mph at one point!
     
  6. 828woodministry

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    I'm going to help a neighbor in a couple hours who has 5 trees down on his property. Hey maybe there'll be some species I can add to my numbers... maybe I can at least stay in the top 10.
     
  8. Chud

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    I’ve got one more +1 in my pile to process than I’m gonna have to do some hunting for more. I saw a pile of Catalpa in a front yard but it disappeared before I could stop. Thanks for the update. I saw where Asheville just got water back. Hopefully tourism will return to normal shortly. Beech mountain got 9” of snow so that should bring in the skiers next week to Avery and Watauga.
     
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  9. Chud

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    +1 Chestnut Oak
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  10. Chud

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    +1 Blackjack Oa
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    +1 Sourwood
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  13. Scotty Overkill

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    Why is it I'm always late to these fun posts....

    I don't have pics of every single one but here's what I've put a saw into the past year.....

    1) white oak
    2) red oak
    3) chestnut oak
    4) black oak
    5) red maple
    6) sugar maple
    7) silver maple
    8) Norway maple
    9) Japanese maple
    10) white ash
    11) beech
    12) tulip poplar
    13) aspen
    14) blue spruce
    15) Norway spruce
    16) white pine
    17) yellow pine
    18) Douglas fir
    19) shagbark Hickory
    20) pignut hickory
    21) mockernut hickory
    22) black walnut
    23) black locust
    24) honey locust
    25) fruiting apple
    26) crabapple
    27) fruiting pear
    28) fruiting cherry
    29) black cherry
    30) chokecherry
    31) persimmon
    32) American elm
    33) Siberian elm
    34) willow
    35) eastern hemlock
    36) arbor vitae (white cedar?)
    37) ornamental cherry
    38) lilac
    39) autumn olive
    40) white birch
    41) black birch
    42) wisteria
    43) basswood
    44) red sassafras
    45) ailanthus
    46) red sumac
    47) pin oak

    I know I'm missing a few species and no, I didn't haul all of this home for firewood, some of these were just heavy prunes. So I don't expect to be added to the game but still fun to see what all we've plunged a saw into!
     
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    I have another ten species to list on December 31st. Just don't tell Chud :D
     
  15. Chud

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    I’ve easily let 10 slip through the cracks and I have an emergency reserve if I get pressured. :handshake:
     
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    I made a list of other common woods around here that I could scrounge but haven't scored any. If I haunted the two dumps I'd get more.

    Guess ill strive for the silver medal!

    Unless Eric Wanderweg comes up with a bunch, congrats in advance on your victory.:handshake:
     
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