Honey Locust seems a little light when dry

Hey folks. I chopped up some Honey Locust last October, fresh cut, covered and stacked off the ground after chopping. The stuff is dry as a bone but seems like it is really light for what I would expect. Not punky at all. For those that have seasoned Honey Locust, have you experienced the same? Thanks

 

Are you sure its HL? No experience with it, but have scrounged one log of it recently and it seemed dense like black locust.

 

I had some from last year also I have been splitting. It still seems to be incredibly heavy. I won’t burn mine till 21-22, but the last nine months has not made this any lighter. Water pours out of small rounds(12 inch minus).

 

I get some HL logs that have some sort of mild rot in them that has some "light" spots and seems more porous. Usually that is just spots in a log and not the whole log or limb. I've even found it in some that I thought were very healthy looking and when I open them up on the sawmill, they are disapointing and I salvage what I can for lumber but even saving the punky spots for firewood isn't worth it to me. For firewood I don't mind a punky spot, but it the peice ends up being more than a quarter to a third punky, it goes in the bonfire pile. Good HL is hard and heavy even when dry.

 

I agree. The HL I have is HEAVY, even after drying 3 years.

 

This was the piece i scrounged at the dump a few weeks back. FHC identified it as HL!

 

I've not had honey locust in my stacks in a while, but, when I did it was still heavy after 4 years stacked.

 

Still heavy when dry, yep. I’ve had it 5 years in the stacks... still heavy even with the borer holes.

 

Yup, if its not heavy, its either not HL, or it is very punky/rotten.

 

Honey locust is SUPER heavy. I weighed a green round in 2015. It weighed 47.5 pounds when I cut it. It weighs 46.9 pounds today (as of May 1st, 2020). I doubt you have HL there, my friend.