Black Locust Score Behind The Dollar General Store

If you ain't squattin you ain't doing it right. How long do you think that wood was on the ground? In the National Forest here, Aspen and Ponderosa Pine seem to rot within a year. Lodgepole Pine is good for several years on the ground. There are areas of so much downed timber but it's completely rotten.

 

....and, he's showing his face again!

 

It was from 2011. We had Hurricane Irene August 2011 with a freak wet snow/ice storm two months later.
We both love the shelf life of BL once its on the ground. One log was resting on a cherry limb which had started to grow around it.

 

If your truck looks like a dog scratching it's azz on the ground, but it's because it's loaded down with wood....that's one of the few justified reasons for "the squat"....

 

wait till you get to my age!

 

Nice work guys! The CT Crew making it happen!

Very interesting story as the origins of the wood as well Eric. Fascinating!

 

2 very nice loads! Way to get er done. Any chance Brad got to run that extra sausage saw?

 

He did buck a few rounds, but cutting 8" mulberry it's hard to get a feel for the saw. Best to bury the bar in a large oak round for that.

 

Nice… the seed has been planted. Lol!!

 

Unloaded my load today. More mulberry than i realized. (bark on BL gets stacked elsewhere)
SS at storage. Seems grass grows faster than my mulberry stack! Before and after pics

 

I haven’t cut any dead/down/barkless black locust since the summer of 2020. I forgot how nice it splits. I swear the bulk of it is dry enough to burn right away. It’ll sit until at least next winter though. No real NEED to burn it with what I have on hand. Got a nice pile of splitter trash I can burn as kindling right away.

I’m glad I have a splitter for the apple especially. I remember from the last one I cut in November 2020 how gnarled they are.

 

That barkless stuff makes some nice splitter shards. Got a few bags should you need more.

 

It ended up being just shy of a face cord of locust.
I plan to get at least another load this winter, once inventory under cover plummets some more and space opens up.

 

Money in the bank right there!

 

Lol. There aren’t very many trucks out there that have hauled as much firewood as Brads!

 

Yeah it would be interesting to go back five yeas and tally how much it has hauled. Maybe for chits and giggles ill start a tally on how much wood it hauls in 2024.

 

Oh no... not another survey!!

 

Limited time to cut today, but every little bit helps. A little more black locust plus some elm, because it was convenient and a nice size to work with.