some locust

Looks like maple to me...

 

I'm seeing Norway maple myself. Dries fast and burns longer than red maple, but not quite as many BTU's as sugar maple.

 

okay. I've never seen maple this white.
But I see in some tables it's slightly below sugar maple indeed. (and sugar maple seems to be close to red oak)
That's good for a year when I'll have a boatload of locust; makes it likely easier to start the fire by adding some maple.

 

Norway maple. Comparable to ash in terms of btu's, splitablity (is that a word) and drying time. It is the lightest colored maple IME.

 

One more pic that better represents how it looks. One split on black locust.

 

Just looking at that split, it reminds me of silver maple

 

yeah, that is what I was thinking now too.The bark looks different though.

I have some silver maple here and that bark is more flaky. This is not at all flaky. The bark does (indeed) look like norway maple.

 

Do you have any Norway maple in your area Dave?

 

Yah

 

Agreed. Taking a break from cutting up my first batch of locust, just looking at the logs I noticed one of the butts was shaped just like a footprint. A big footprint, no defined toes. Sasquatch wearing socks. Cut a bunch up and gave them to my sister for her garden.
Couple years later I spied a butt that looked like the pad of a dog print. Gave them to a female friend who sold crafts. Opined if she went to the beach in RI and picked up a bunch of toes she could either use them or sell them as a kit to make big dog prints in a garden. Not sure if she ever saw/understood my vision

 

So, all but the little bit of straight maple next to the stairs is split and stacked.
Only 2 out of 5 stacks filled tho in my two cord bay.
Probably because I took all the thick locust bark off. That was three truck beds of bark and sawdust...

So I need another tree delivered... Preferably oak this time

 

Its amazing how much volume BL bark can take up. Do you normally remove it on larger logs? I let some rounds sit for a few months and it loosened when I split it but man does it smell bad!

 

This is the second time I got a decent amount of locust (more than a scrounged few rounds). The previous time was a mich younger tree with much thinner bark so I left it on the splits.

I used a hatchet or my x27 held near the head to take it off the rounds or splits.
Often it woulf separate on the slippery layer, sometimes I had to slice it.

 

Btw, I bought a bark spud, but that didn't work at all for this bark. Didn't want to slide under the bark to lift it up.

 

My normal MO for fresh cut bark on is the CSS ASAP to keep the bark intact. Sometimes while running thicker barked pieces through the hydro ill remove bark.

 

Not familiar with that tool...have a pic?

 

Someone on one of the two forums suggested using one to get the bark off.
Maybe I'm using it wrong.

The edge on the tool suggests it should be put under the bark and the curve suggests to lever it off the trunk. Dunno...

 

Makes sense

 

That locust wasn't enough to fill the shed.
So i've been asking for a smaller additional load but none of the tree.companies was apparently willing to do that. Given that time was progressing,.and temps rising, I said okay, a full load is good too.
I'll find a way to store it when my shed is full.

Three days later I got this.
Not even a full 20 yard truck.
All but two maple branches is red and white oak. Manageable diameters. Quite nice.

Second cut I hit a screw ..
Luckily an old chain that I thought had had its last sharpening. But still...

Now let's hope that the new chain won't see metal too...