I bucked some trees that I had dropped awhile back. One is a locust; I am guessing a honey locust? The wood is yellow but the trees do not have thorns. The other was a oak down in the valley beside the garden. If it is not raining tomorrow, I am going to be hauling wood up to the house that was cut but never got to haul and split.
Thats how wet it done here. Mostly an hour here and there. The trees are changing time to get this butt in gear to get the wood in.
I did some reading on black locust. It appears that the tree is actually toxic. The article also stated that it needs sunlight and does not grow well in shade and it is often one of the first to get established in a clearing. That explains the situation here. Most of the locust on the property are dead. This area was logged a very long time ago. The locust sprouted, grew, and then when the oaks and such took over, smothered out the sunlight for the locust. I cut 13 locust posts from the dead trees to redo the fence in the little valley. My goal is to try and get all the dead locusts cut, split and stacked before the insects turn them into soil.
Rain finally moved in this evening. Good chance it will be a wet day tomorrow. We will need to watch the storm here as it could decide to go north and come through here.
Good goal I will say but you've got some time. Black locust lasts and lasts, That's why it is used for fence posts. Believe me Locust Post knows locust.....
Yes, but these trees have been dead for some time. The top of the tree was all hollowed out; I will take photos if it is not raining tomorrow to show.
I like Locus, drys quick splits easy and burns hot foir a long stretch. Don't get much of that around here. But I still have a awful lot of dead Ash, not so easy to split by hand however. But splits pertty good with the power splitter. Al
Don't worry, you won't live that long! I've pulled locust fence posts out that were put in a hundred years ago and they are about as solid as the day they were put in the ground.
Yes, I saw that a few times and thought that it was some grit on the logs. It was tough cutting the locust and I figured it was that I had not sharpened the chain enough; however, the oak was easy in comparison.
You get use to where you live. I was up in Vernon, NJ a couple of years ago with my friend and I froze my tits off ; it was in November. I have a brother that moved to Miami, Florida. We went down one year to visit him in January and I wore a sleeveless top and people were looking at me like I was crazy; they were wearing coats. So I am sure it would be the same for you if you were to come down to this area in winter. It is all relative.
I am quite jealous of that wood shed! I have a ltitle over 3 cords of black locust from a CL score that I cs&s this spring. I can't wait to get into it next year, and the year after!
