Species Competition for 2024

Nice. Mimosa splits super easy like black walnut IIRC. Cool to score something new.

 

+1 Kousa Dogwood

 

Forgot this from a recent score. Chinese chestnut.

 

1. 29 - Chud
2. 24 - Eric Wanderweg
3. 21 - buZZsaw BRAD
   
4. 18 - jrider
5. 15 - isaaccarlson
6. 12 - JPDavis
7. 11 - LCBug
8. 9 - Buttermilk
9. 9 - Sandhillbilly
   
10. 8 - 828woodministry
11. 8 - High Plains Hoarder
    
12. 7 - Backwoods Fellin'
    
13. 7 - Dok440
    
14. 6 - 203coffeeman
15. 4 - iowahiker
16. 3 - T.Jeff Veal
17. 1 - billb3
18. 1 - wildwest

Updated leaderboard

 

Eastern white pine.

 

I love the way it smells, cutting it and burning it.

 

I took them off the truck and had them in a wheelbarrow near the deck and when I went outside this morning it smelled great.

 

Saw these today in the stack I was finishing and realized I didn't post them here yet. Dogwood.

 

American elm and pin oak

 

+1 TOH

 

+1 Bald Cypress

 

+1 Purple leaf Chokecherry

 

+1 Magnolia‘Elizabeth’ A yellow flower hybrid of acimunata and denudata.

 

+1 Southern Red Oak

 

This competition may require my getting a full time job with an arborist until years end!

 

A lot of good looking wood!

 

LOL this is a fun game. For me so far this year:
Black Cherry (Prunus serotina)
Mockernut Hickory (Carya tomentosa)
Northern Red Oak (Quercus rubra)
White Oak (Quercus alba)
Hackberry (Celtis occidentalis)
Ash (green ash I think but maybe white ash)
Tulip Poplar (a lot of it and more to come) (Liriodendron tulipifera)
Bradford Pear (Pyrus calleryana)
Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana)
Short-leaf pine (Pinus echinata)

IDK if this list will get any more diverse this year unless I scrounge somewhere other than our woods, everything above is stuff I get off our 17 acres except hackberry & bradford pear. I might be able to add maple or beech but I don't think I have any dead ones and wouldn't cut down a live one. I'm in the process of getting rid of a few tulip poplars that grew in undesirable spots, so I'll have plenty of that for the next 2-3 years at least.

 

Where do you find Osage in the Nashville area? I RARELY see one in a random cow or horse pasture every once in a while in Williamson county.

 

There is a fair amount on some property in Cheatham that I lease.

 

Cedar in the first picture and black locust in the second