I'm getting back to my honey locust honey hole! It was an absolutely beautifully perfect day for running a saw way out in the middle of nowhere. 55, tons of sunshine and zero wind. Load number 1.
Great stuff. Love me some HL. Thorns or no thorns? Common as a landscape tree around here and rare that i score any. Posted a 2+ year old cord for sale today on CL. NICE saw btw!
Thankya Sir! Most of these on this part of the property are thornless. There may be some thorns on the ones in the piles. There's 2 other piles of trees and I'm not sure which they are. This property has the most honey locust I've ever seen together in one place. It's a farmstead on a half section, with a creek through it and they're all over. There's probably 1-2k total. I live on the plains, in western Kansas and it's quite odd, to have this many trees on a property. Especially, honey locust.
Yep, that's a 461 with a Weber Customs full wrap bar on it. That 500i is a pretty slick saw. The hype is real with those things. I only have a few tanks through it, but I don't see myself using my 660's much anymore, having this 500i.
You figure the honeylocust was planted for cattle fodder? I know deer eat the sweet pods in the wild.
Nice little HL honey hole for sure. Take what you can get. I see pics on here of the treeless plains and i marvel at them. Trees all over the place here. Guess its something i take for granted having lived here my whole life. How much more will you be taking?
Never have run a 461. Have a 460 & 462. Full wrap on my 400. Came with it. 500 game changer for sure. Owned mine nearly two years and still am amazed every time i cut with it. Hard to grab any other big saw when one owns one. Ran a 36" bar on it last month. Works very well cutting honey locust too!
Not real sure, honestly. I know a lot of folks planted them back in the day, because they are fairly drought resistant and we are dry out here.
I had some honey locust. Much respect for you!!!! Heavy, hard to split, takes forever to dry. Burns great but that is the hardest splitting stuff I have ever seen.
Really surprised about how hard yours split. I was able to section the big rounds pictured on my PU rather easily with the Isocore. Hydro once at storage of course. The cord i have on hand from two years ago hand split like cake.
Everyone is different. I grew up out here and couldn't wait to get out of here, because "there's nothing out here". I ended up in Colorado, in the mountains and after a few months, I'd had enough. It drove me nuts, not being able to "see as far as the eye can see". Now, I appreciate and love the fact that there's "nothing out here". I want it all! Seriously, the guy said "eventually I'll just push it in a pile and light it on fire." To which I responded, "Give me a couple months and you won't have a very big pile to burn. Just little limbs and rotten stuff." This is in my crosshairs. So I'm going to keep going till there's either nothing left, or he gets tired of it and burns it (I'm sure he'll leave it till I'm done. He's a good ole fella.)
Yessir! I'm all over it and finally have the time to attack it! It's not too far, about 13 miles one way, but there's only 1 stop sign in that 13 miles and 12 of those are on gravel roads, just the way I like it.
I have 2, 461's. They were my first "pro saws". They're good saws, but that dang 500.........I have a feeling I may end up with a duplicate. It was pulling 32" full comp buried, no problem. Or, I'd like to maybe get a 462. Not sure yet. I was also thinking about a 400 for my log piles. There's just too dang many great saws out there! Lol I'd kinda like to hold back the 461's a bit, since they don't make them anymore.
Ours splits amazing. If it's fresh and green, it doesn't split quite as good, but I split a lot of this load, with a 3.5 lb Council Tool Jersey pattern axe. The trees have been sitting since May. Elm splits harder than this stuff by far.
Id be all over that too. Easy access and primo wood. I get a little giddy over wood i seldom score and HL is one of them. How much you think is there? Hope the weather holds for you. You folks get much snow there?
Oh man...........I don't know. There's probably 15 cord right here in these pictures, at a bare minimum. I should've taken pictures from the other ends of the trees, but the one I cut on was the smallest and it was 32" diameter. The 2 next to it, are about 3.5 foot diameter and 40 foot long. The one off in the distance is about 32" as well and 50 foot long. It's not all 32" diameter obviously, but the point is, these are some BIG trees. I'll take some better pictures tomorrow. I'll try to capture their size better. We can and do get some snow. Just like rain, it's hit and miss. Some years we barely get a foot of snow all winter and some years we have multiple blizzards and end up with a few feet all winter. But, we don't ever have snow on the ground all winter long. So access to it shouldn't be an issue.
Nice work KSPlainsman get as much HL as you can. About as high BTU stuff as you can get in volume in the Midwest. I had a score a couple years ago, split like grave, a bit heavy, been seasoning 2 years. I can’t wait till next winter to start burning some.
