What's Your Least Favorite Tree?

[Fish Felon]

Least Favorite Tree:

I've come to loathe basswood. I hate that type of tree. They're ratty....constantly dropping shit....dead branches....their little pollen thingys. They're a low density wood yet don't burn worth a shit. Basswood firewood is like trying to burn wet sponges, when they're dry. They're pulpy. They're gross.

Honorable Mention:

Elm. Elm is way overhyped as a tree. Sure, it made for some nice cover down city avenues before Dutch elm, and morels like to grow off them, but when making a fire using elm....well, it smells like cat piss.

Honorable Mention for being Underrated:

Silver Maple. Yes, they drop a lot of shit but it happens quickly. They grow huge and are extremely strong and whippy. In 2013 there was a June thunderstorm that left me without power for two and a half days when I lived in South Minneapolis....yes, Minneapolis....it wasn't like I was out in the country. Elm trees on my block toppled and crushed cars. The big silver maple in my backyard dropped nary a branch and continued to shade my house in that summer and many after, and is providing shade to the new owners to this very day. Oddly enough my gay neighbors and my dad were always wanting me to chop it down. Not sure about the gays, but my dad seemingly wants to chop every tree on every property down, but his own. You go into the woods with him and start burning shit and he thinks you're altering the natural state of things.....

[9manfan]

Huge Walnut tree in front yard, last tree to get leaves in spring, first tree to lose all it's leaves in fall not to mention all the f-ing walnuts in the yard, but it's a strong tree and great shade tree for my house(pain in the @ss tree with benefits)..............boxelder are the worst in my opinion..............

[Stute Slap]

Box elders are junk.

This time of year I really hate cotton woods. They are cool cuz they get huge/old but any amount of wind and they drop branches all over and the little fuzzies really piss me off.

[maplelakeduckslayer]

Can't remember the name of it, but I remember being about 16 and helping my buddy and his dad cut down a tree at their farm. Had thorns all over it. Words coming out of my buddies dad's mouth were hilarious

[Hansen]

Hate: Box Elder, weeping willow, cotton wood, Japanese liliac ( we have this small tree by the entrance to my garage . . . . messy tree constantly dropping seeds, flower, sticks, etc.)

Love: Bur Oak, Red Oak, shag bark hickory, hard maple.

[Quack]

Balsam fit in the conifer category and basstardwood in the deciduous


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[emptymag]

I had what I believe was a honey locust in my yard. Thing rained sap like I’ve never seen and has real small leaves that got into everything.

Cottonwoods can suck it also. I loathe the cotton seed stuck in the line of my baitcasters while flipping docks n shorelines.

[get-n-birdy]

Least favorite in the yard, oaks and aspens.

Favorite for hunting, aspens and oaks, go figure.

D@m oaks hold the leaves till spring on some, whilst others drop late fall.

Aspens suck in the spring, crap gets in, on, under, through just about anything and everything.

[lanyard]

I don't know what they are, some sort of Cedar. Russian Cedar maybe, I don't know, kind of a Juniper looking deal but annoying. But those effing things volunteer themselves like Buckthorn. They don't bother me when their little, but they effing get big and bushy and are a pain in the ass to chain saw.

However, the shavings from cutting them smell GREAT!

[Quack]

Probably Eastern Red Cedar. It’s a native that thrives in the absence of fire.




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