Customer said he didn't want it. Ok, we'll get it out of here for you. Back to my place to be split and stacked.
Nice pile! I have some honey locust around here I'm looking forward to getting into next year or the following. All I know so far is that it's heavy, smells good, and has a reputation for throwing some real heat.
Give it time then dry and you will love it. Seasons comparably to oak In my opinion. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Have been burning some this week. It's good firewood but it needs to be seasoned a while although not quite as long as oak. It's also a coaler like oak. Pretty tame on the secondaries. But you get more heat deep into a long burn ... At least that is how it seems to me. Easy to cook your self out of the room.
It's a 2 year season time from my experience, just like black locust. I've not had any oak, red or white, ready in 2 years.
I've been burning it lately. Its 2 year seasoned and could probably use another year, granted our summer wasnt too great for seasoning given all the humidity. Either way it's good high BTU wood!
Ok Blujacket and BigPapi, you both reference HL as smelling good. In all my decades of wood burning I can say I have probably burned a sum total of a cord of Honey locust. Not too much, but Black Locust I have been fortunate enough to get plenty of around here. So granted I have not that much experience with the honey variety and my nose is not the best, I don't remember noticing a particular smell. Are you guys talking about the fresh cut smell or when burning? and can you describe the smell? As for me I can definitely smell Cherry (candy sucker or maraschino under bark), cheesy Oaks (bleh), Sweet red oaks (which I love), Sassafras (meh), Sweet Gum (pretty good!) Walnut (sweet wet cardboard) Willow (sour cardboard) Ash (which to me at times smells like olive wood) obviously pines (Home depot lumber isle.. hehe), but my favorite is Elm which to me smells like Spanish cedar the kind one would use in a cigar humidor. I am very curious what I missed with Honey Locust???
Huh? What kinda wood connoisseur are you!? Yeah I cant describe the particular smell of sweet oak either, but love it... especially compared to the alternative.
Great score, thats some of my favorite firewood right there! I did a large honey locust removal a few weeks back, milled the trunk for boards, left the tops for the homeowner, and still got over a cord of firewood for myself out of the tree! That sure is some pretty wood....
Oh, I could tell you in exact detail. But, that wouldn't be nice of me. He's been a customer for years and I'll leave it at that.
Have the same exact mill, Baileys right? Never used on locust out here though. TBH they rarely get that big in this part of the southwest.
