Hey guys. I'm curious, is this honey locust or black locust. For reference I live in northwest Iowa. Most my wood comes from the town tree dump and my wife says I have a real problem stopping there almost everyday to see if there's anything good laying around. Most of what I get is Ash and silver maple. Last night I was pretty excited to find this. The problem with the town tree dump is that the city workers push it up with a payloader once a day. Once they do that all the wood is in a huge tangled mess and the good stuff gets buried. So I was cutting by the headlights last night to get as much of this as I could before it gets buried today! There's much more than just the pictures. Sent from my VS988 using Tapatalk
Honey locust. GREAT firewood, takes a couple years plus drying but its worth it. Id be just as excited to get that. Welcome to the FHC btw!
Wish i could haunt my local dump more often and i have the same problem with it being pushed into a pile and/or covered with mud.
bjkats welcome to the forum. You have honey locust there. Might as well fess up now. Week ago I was at the local tree dump. Load of black locust had been dumped by the town. I said no. :0 It was one big cube of wood, branches, vines and weeds. They must be compressing the loads in the dump truck with the backhoe. They’re coming out in one big block LOL
Tempting! East Hanpton? That trailer load of what looked like BL in Cobalt (parking lot of convenience store they are redoing) was there for 2-3 weeks as id pass it going to stepdaughters on Sundays. Gone this past Sunday!
Marlborough. trust me, it’s not worth the hassle. Small trees with mostly tops and briars packed in. A mess.
Good call on that. That's like seeing a block of gold and walking away. Questionable behavior from a fellow Hawdah...
This is a stack of Gold. This is a truck of Gold This is not a block of Gold LOL As much fun as it was catching Locust mania truth be told I’m not that impressed so far. Wonder if it doesn’t appreciate EPA stoves as much,,,or soapstone? Will know more after this season.
You $uck! Made an impressive log deck of BL thats for sure. Jonesing to bring the big saws over for a play date! Turn the pile of BL into rounds.
It sounds to me like your wife has a problem with you stopping by the tree dump not vise versa… You definitely have some Honey Locust there. The Honey Locust I have processed usually takes about 3 years to get to around 20%. It will burn great. Hoard on.
I guess I've have had the luck of the Irish with it but is yours doing the White Oak thing where it holds water? For a lack of a better term LOL!!! Mine have been super dry for years being stacked but I have kept them in a few rounds as well. Never seems to get old when the purple flames are involved.... I will admit I've let...cords of this stuff go but it involved a house sale and wasn't really up to me. Any I've come around, I don't let it go.
maybe. I never used a MM on it. I’ll have some four year old stuff this year. One positive is it doesn’t rot while hanging around Are you using an EPA stove? I noticed when burning the bark scraps in the pit they really give off heat,,,as long as it’s dry bark. Seen the purple flames too.
Anytime. Strategically speaking I should finish up the Beech and Black Birch pen first. My sister dumped a bunch of Ash and White Birch rounds in front of the locust. Thinking I’ll have enough room in the pen for those too. Get em out of the way. Have a friend coming this morning to watch the operation. Someone gave him a free conveyor and he wants to watch. Maybe he’ll build pens too. I’m no telling him where the 6 foot pallet stash is tho LOL
