If so, this will certainly be a boon for my 2015-16 high BTU pile. Thought for a while it might have been a giving tree, every time we got near the end we realised that it wasn't brush beneath...
Looks like honey locust leaves and pods to me. You can see the dry stems and leaves coming out of the logs. Definitely honey locust there.
Where are the evil spikes? Hear say there are some w/o the deadly sharp spines. Honey locust gets a type of fungal rot in the PNW so this is the one place it does not grow well. Lots of its cousin, black locust, growing here though.
that is, without a doubt, honey locust.....I've got a chitload of it in the stacks..... Not all honey locust has the 6-9" thorns on them......there is a landscape-bred, thornless variety also. My inlaws had a HUGE thornless tree, the FIL finally got tired of drooling and cut it down from his front yard and added it to his stacks!!
We have both kinds of locust- thorny and non- up this was. I haven't come across a thorny one since I started cutting for my own stove.
When I saw you had posted, I knew this would be the final word. First time I've gotten into it whilst green, looks a lot different.
Oh, and by the way guys-- I brought home probably a little over a truckload of the stuff. We started off loading it into the truck but the heavier pieces went into the trailer since it sits lower
Yep, Now split one piece. And take a whiff, IMO, some of the best smelling wood there is. Plus a beautiful salmon color....
There are thornless cultivars planted everywhere around here, as they are a relatively fast growing, hardy shade tree. See them along city streets all over. I have some of the real thing in my woods for reality, when necessary. Some are pretty good sized, mature trees, and some are 10-12" DBH, and starting to grow around the thorns on the trunk. Kinda cool to watch that progress over the last few years.
My wife's dad was a wood cutter back in the 70's-80's, and she grew up in a house heated by wood so I guess you can certainly say it's "in her blood"!
Thanks, I eyed on Friday when I helped Dad get the pellets. It was raining and I thought it was a fruitwood. Made a note of it, though.
