Is this black locust?

I picked up a small load of this at the dump: It's pretty long in the tooth. Moisture meter reads 21-24%.

 

Based on the grain and the bark that I can see in the pics...I'd say yes.

 

The end grains look similar to the splits I brought up to you. Some of it does, anyways.

I shake my head with each of your new threads/postings. Always amazed at what you are able to scrounge. Jealous, actually.

Good job!

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There is at least a few pieces of BL in there.

 

Nope, that's more elm. Put it by the driveway and I'll grab it when I go to my shop tomorrow

 

This is what it came out to, split. I had to get it out of the car, and if there's a chance I can burn it this winter, I want it drying. Not much, but if I could get this much every day... There were a few pieces of red oak in there that must have been 10 years old. And some of the locust had ants.

 

I don't know if I have ever had BL that did not have ants in it somewhere. The black ants here seem to love them? Hard to find cherry without them also it seems like.

 

I'm thinking that we should just follow her around, when she finds the good stuff, throw a few splits in the other direction to distract her and hustle to load up!!!

 

Looking like it to me. Ive had a couple pieces where the locust really looks old and all that but then the wood inside is perfectly decent. Have had locust that was more dirt than wood in the middle. The outer ring if that describes it was perfectly intact, heartwood gone. Basically just tells me, "you're still gonna be mighty warm burning me next year!"

 

I just play the odds. I go by the dump at least once a day, on my way back from the nursing home where my mom is. Sometimes I go twice a day. A lot of times I don't find anything.

 

Persistence pays!

 

I figured you were there daily! Hell, I would be too if mine didn't suck.

 

I wish I could find that much black locust every day. I'd have a winter's worth in no time at all. Heck, I'd be OK with pretty much any species if it was just laying there for the taking. 'Bout a tenth of a cord on that pallet, so ten days = 1 cord, a month = 3 cords, a year = 36 cords of wood.

 

Yes, most of the bigger pieces we're hollow. It was pretty easy to split, too. If oak is a one on a 1-10 scale, this was a 2.

 

I'm telling you, swing by before 4P. No one will stop you.

 

I'll have to give it a try. I usually come in off 93, but it wood be worth my while to stop in! Just go in and down to the brush/wood area?

 

Yup.

 

Nice little load like that can grow and keep you going an extra day or so depending on the weather.... I know Ive found these small bunches of wood like that beginning of this year. Hard to turn them down unless I absolutely can't. Problem is, they'll look like as you say and have " long in the tooth and possibly 10 years old" then I split and check and at that point its like they've been cut 3 months ago... even with the bark off...

 

you go girl we are proud of you she getting it done!

 

Seems like an appropriate time for the elephant quote.

Nice work mid winter. I like that it's already split and stacked. It's a good feeling to get all the work done right away.