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.
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.
35 - Chud 28 - buZZsaw BRAD 26 - Eric Wanderweg 18 - jrider 15 - isaaccarlson 13 - Sandhillbilly 12 - JPDavis 11 - LCBug 11 - TnMan 9 - Buttermilk 9 - 828woodministry 8 - High Plains Hoarder 7 - Backwoods Fellin' 7 - Dok440 6 - 203coffeeman 4 - iowahiker 3 - T.Jeff Veal 1 - billb3 1 - wildwest Updated leaderboard
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!
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.
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.
38 - Chud 30 - buZZsaw BRAD 26 - Eric Wanderweg 18 - jrider 15 - isaaccarlson 13 - Sandhillbilly 12 - JPDavis 11 - LCBug 11 - TnMan 9 - Buttermilk 9 - 828woodministry 8 - High Plains Hoarder 7 - Backwoods Fellin' 7 - Dok440 6 - 203coffeeman 4 - iowahiker 3 - T.Jeff Veal 1 - billb3 1 - wildwest Updated Leaderboard
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!
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.