Ran into a buddy of ours cleaning up after the storms here. We said we'd come back and help after lunch. He got his saw pinched bad, and did something to the brake on his saw (I'll fix it for him) so he couldn't finish. He was grateful we came back. Turns out he doesn't even need the wood for heat anyway, so he said we were welcome to it! Anyway, there's a bit more to get off the road, and I'm going to help him get a limb of the fence, and maybe bring down the damaged tree. Oh, I'm pretty sure I know what we got Sent from my Pixel 5 using Tapatalk
Watch out for a white F150 with a ladder rack. That's buZZsaw BRAD coming for your Locust score! Very nice!
To me the bark says Locust, the shape of the tree agrees too. A lot of them branch close together and grow vertically like that. The color of the heart wood looks off though. I’ve never seen one with brown grain. It could be the location/climate. I never harvested one from a place that gets 364 1/2 days of rain per year J/K (not really) I’m going with Locust nevertheless.
It sure is BL! . The heartwood is darker than usual, but i have seen them like that. The break is typical too. Very hard wood, but brittle. Great score MBF!
This was some of the BL i scored on route 2 back in the Fall. Had the darker heartwood. Im wondering if subspecies or just normal variation.
buZZsaw BRAD , there's subtle differences between a horde of locusts which is a plague, and hoarding black locust, which is a disease, not unlike CAD.
I got some BL that had that same brownish hue to the wood. Other times it’s greenish yellow. It’s a tricky species
Ive been bamboozled by Siberian Elms of that size before thinking they were BL. Take a close up of a split. Some of those pieces in the truck look pretty brown.
That’s what I thought too. I’ve had some elm that looked EXACTLY like that. Even the bark looked the same. But like I said earlier... Never even seen a black locust tree. So I can’t really say one way or another. The guys above would all be able to recognize BL way more accurately than me.
The bark looks right for BL on that picture of the downed tree and some of the rounds look more yellow. So its probably BL but like I said Ive been fooled before. Siberian Elm smells like cinnamon to me fwiw.
It is in fact black locust. Confirmed by the property owners. I've never seen it before. It's absolutely gorgeous. We'll see how burns next year. I'm told it's better'n fir. Sent from my Pixel 5 using Tapatalk
Have you ever referred to the btu chart here Mtnbikerfred ? Firewood BTU & Drying Chart I disagree with where black locust was ranked.
