Black Locust Score Behind The Dollar General Store

buZZsaw BRAD and I got permission to cut here a year ago, and today was the day for plans to materialize. Many living and blown over barkless trees that had been on the ground since the October snowstorm of 2011. Excellent candidates for firewood. I loaded up with mostly locust, with a little bit of apple thrown in. Brad’s heaping load was locust and mulberry. Great times and great firewood today.

 

Way to go guys!! Christmas come early

 

barkless BL is the cats meow

 

Agreed, this is the way I’m hoarding it from now on. The bark takes up too much room and it reeks anyway

 

Was it less than a dollar?

 

No hi vis Brad?

 

Hi vis sweat shirt died last year (it was a dirt magnet) and i dont own a ski cap one.

 

Good times today. Some primo BL there just have to work to get it which seems like the norm.

 

Yup they don’t hide dirt in the least.

 

Biggest load ive ever seen on your truck. It had quite the squat when you pulled out.

 

Lol as the traffic light turned green and I pulled out into traffic, I heard and felt it when I hit the bump stops Glad I was so close to home with a load like that.

 

Proper load right der

 

My ride home was rather uneventful. It was a bit of a grunt going up your hill. I did go into DG and got chalk. Bought some gigantic ones for the grandkids.

Oh, and be sure to point out to the boys where not to play for a while.

 

My load. I had a bunch of smalls to top it off.

 

Yes that’s a nice load of BL. What was the other saw you had with you? The 201 is obvious.

 

261 was in the cab. Both got equal cutting time. I did bring the 028 to show Eric and maybe fire it up but really didnt need it. Havent run it in a while.

 

Nice score gents!

 

Now we know the real reason buZZsaw BRAD ’s tailgate looks like it does

 

Nice grab, boys!! I can’t believe primo firewood like that has just been lying around since 2011!

 

You never know around here whether wood will get scooped up overnight or sit around for decades before someone sees the value in it. Given this score’s location in an area full of mostly multi family houses and rentals, I’m not surprised it sat this long untouched. I’m more amazed that 2011 somehow got 12 years behind us already. I got married that year, my cat had kittens, my older son was born, we had a major flood in August that put huge sections of the town underwater, then the freak Halloween snowstorm in October that left most of the state out of power for close to a week.
Then zooming out even further, there’s a story as to why this extensive black locust grove was here to begin with. In 1955 a hurricane stalled out for days over New England, and the floods that followed ruined entire towns. In the aftermath, the Army Corps of Engineers built dams all over the place, and in many municipalities black locust trees were planted along the river banks to help hold the soil in place. That’s where these were growing, close to a small stream that originated uphill somewhere near my house. So well over half a century after all the trees were planted, and the grove sprawled out to be the firewood gold mine nobody notices.