I Love You Honey!

I get a text from an old friend a couple weeks ago saying they had cut more wood in his BIL's yard. Same yard I scored some wood from back in late May. I cringed as im overwhelmed with tropical storm and tornado wood from the recent storms and he bucks the wood like tree services...100 different lengths. BIL wanted it gone ASAP and i didnt want them cutting it anymore than they had.
I stopped and he had felled just a honey locust leaving most of it intact...woohoo! I can buck to my lengths.
Stopped tonight and started in. Cut for half hour. Lots of limb wood i may not take, but a decent amount overall. Its halfway between my friends and my place only five minutes. Go by there all the time and can drive into the yard right up to the wood so very convenient and easy. Easy is gooder when hoardin' wood.
Had an audience! 170 did all the cutting. The 261 was giving it and me dirty looks. It'll get its turn on the trunk.

Another "exotic" (thanks to jo191145 for the term) wood ive learned from the FHC and love. Never have seen one "in the wild" around these parts. Learned of their yard tree popularity when i posted a thread last Winter asking for a tree ID. Now i see them all over as they are rather common in yards and as commercial landscape trees.
Ive scrounged some twice at the dump (albeit it very little) and really like it. Hard and dense like black locust and hand splits easily. Gonna let this dry a couple years. Maybe a half cord of it scrounged prior to this most coming from the same yard. Ill move the other and stack this with it.

 

You suck award being forwarded as we speak!!!
Great score Brad. Let me get this straight, that’s all honey? Mods can I swear a little here?
That’s excellent brutha. Downright excellent. Save the branches too.
I might even rake up the leaves LOL

 

I agree Brad, have to love Honey. Get a fair amount of it here, black is much harder for me to score, and love it. Seems 2 years are good for drying and I have 4+ cords that has been split for over 4 years ago. Just leaving it for emergencies.

 

Its all HL. They had felled one just like this and another one (not 100% sure it was HL) that had bark resembling yellow birch/cherry. (see following pics from May)

 

I love honey locust. It even smells great when cut.

 

Very nice score.

 

Dude, I am starting to wonder whether you are a real person, or some sort of robot.

 

If i was a robot, id hoard a lot more wood!

 

buZZsaw BRAD what’s your preferred length?

 

Been cutting 16" for years. I always have a 6' carpenters folding rule stuffed in my back right pocket when cutting. Piece of chalk in front pocket. I use the red 16" stud center marks and mark away. 14-17" go into the same stack if scrounged at that length. An 18"er will get cookied to 16". Under 14" goes into a short/nugget bin. I hate being OCD!

 

Maybe the wild stuff. A peculiar aroma in my olfactories opinion. Smelled better, smelled worse!

 

I'm sure I'll be the odd man out here...but I still have about 1/3 of a cord of HL left from when I took down 2-3 trees at work 5-6 years ago...once this is gone I won't go out of my way for more...didn't impress me...certainly doesn't make the heat that BL does IME...I'd just as soon have some ash or maple, etc.
I greatly disagree with the BTU charts for HL...

 

I've only processed the hybrid cultivated stuff. It all smells super sweet. Like honey.

 

Is the stuff you got wild or hybrid? To me the hybrid HL burns exactly like BL does.

 

Hybrid

 

Joe, does this qualify as locust mania? Have you ever scored any HL?

 

I’ve never even seen one
Of course it’s part of the mania. Did your therapist try to convince you otherwise? Fired!!

 

Wow that wood looks great

 

Love that Honey

 

HL is one of my all time favorites. You really can’t beat it for BTU’s. Easy to split. Smells wonderful when it burns too. It’s surprisingly easy to find in Denver, so I grab quite a bit of it. I never pass it up. Glad you didn’t pass on that!