Loaded truck pics.

Always good to get the "rest of the story"

 

Here's today's load from a couple smaller trees. Not sure the species. Couple of odd ones for around here.

 

Looks like green ash and mulberry to me. Fantastic!

 

Ah! You're probably right, Eric. I googled ash leaves and that's definitely what that tree looked like. They were dried out of course, but the bark does look like it.

So, the mulberry kinda made me wonder. It reminded me of hedge while I was cutting it, with that yellow sawdust making a mess, but the bark was wrong and there were no hedge apples on the ground.

I'm happy with both of those species! Thanks for the ID!

 

Honey locust, and more honey locust. Couldn't fit it all in this load.

 

Couple smaller loads to finish this job off.

 

Great looking haul!

 

Thank you! The ole C10 Custom Deluxe keeps putting in the work.

 

Yes , Nice loads of Nice wood . How heavy is Honey Locust compared to red oak ?

 

Thanks. I have no experience with red oak, but a website I just looked at has honey locust 4 lbs heavier, dry weight, per cubic foot.

It can be pretty dense when it's green for sure.

 

Maybe the same when fresh cut, but HL seems heavier when dried. Its some dense wood. As both require multiple years to dry and my space is very limited i dont take too much of them. HL more of a novelty score.

 

What is a "novelty score"?

 

IME a bit heavier. HL is some dense stuff.

 

Honey locust feels heavier with every year that passes. Lol I was ripping these chunks down further than I usually do.

 

Basically a wood I don't get often but like it because its scarce as a score. Most HL around here is planted as commercial landscape trees so getting decent rounds is a challenge. Mulberry and black walnut are my other novelty woods. I get rather giddy when I score mulberry!

 

Ahhh, now I follow! Brain wasn't firing on all cylinders.

Honey locust is fairly prominent in towns out here, due to how drought resistant it is, and as dry as we are out here. Which is good for me, since we don't have a lot of other hardwoods like out east.

 

750 ricks of perfect chestnut oak aka one year of deliveries to Nashville in one trip.

 

Mixed load of mostly cherry, red maple, and tulip poplar delivered yesterday to one of my original customers of 20 or so years. She is a casual burner.

 

750 Riks or Splits ?

 

I’m being facetious. Are you not familiar with Nashville ricks? I feel like I loaded 10,000 splits.