County came by and trimmed along some of the roads near the house. I’ve been watching this pile sit there for over a month. Finally stopped and picked it up. Am I correct thinking this is locust? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
yup, that is locust. In my many years of making firewood its one that ive never processed. I have access to some and may try soon to satisfy my curiosity. Good score
Thanks! I was 99% sure. I have a about 10-12 standing in the woods behind the house. Also working on cutting up 6 or so that were dead and blown over in the wind behind the house. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Never handled any myself but from what I've seen here that looks like Locust. A guy can only drive past a pile of wood so many times before it ends up coming home with you. Nice score!
I split by hand as well. I’ve yet to come across a piece I couldn’t split. Knock on wood!!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Ahhh. You've never met elm then. Looks like black locust to me. It's hard to beat free roadside locust scores.
I should say I’ve yet to come across a piece of black locust I couldn’t split by hand! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I second the motion. Meant to add that before. Many times ive driven by roadkill several times and when i go back...its gone. You snooze you lose! Happened to me twice in the past two weeks alone, although one i was able to grab some, but delayed going back with the saw to cut it. Sometimes its a matter of if i have the time and the truck is empty.
Exactly. For my road locust score, I had to deal with an old guy that was complaining about how heavy it was. My answer was " then leave it, and I'll deal with it. There's some silver maple up the way that you can go get and I'll take this stuff". He then left and got the silver maple and I got the locust.
Will you cut by the roadside if its too big/heavy? I had a similar incident where i told the guy to take the sycamore and i got the red oak!
Just a little hint here Brad. When you answer a quote, do not do it inside the quote because most times it just looks like you've quoted the guy and not posted anything else. We see others doing that so most times when I see like you did above, I just skip over and don't even look at it. So when you quote someone, click below the quote so your answer comes up outside the quote. No offense, just trying to help.
I won't run a saw at this location. It's just off of the downtown area and I don't want any hassle. The pieces are large and heavy, but I have a low trailer and that makes it easy.
I caught it . Thanks Dennis, that is helpful . I think a lot of us have done that at one point though.
On that note, I need to talk with our neighbors that had about a cord with of black locust cut down 2 years ago and they just stacked the rounds. They are still there. I'll either offer to split it all since it's obvious they don't have a hydraulic splitter, or other to take it all in exchange for pre seasoned and split silver maple. They only burn in a fire pit on the patio. Locust isn't a great campfire wood because of the sparks.
that is hedge, aka osage orange, it burns hotter than black locust. be careful with it, it burns so hot that it will warp a mild steel stove and can crack a cast iron stove. if you have an owb you can chuck in rounds.
I almost said that Felter. The bark just didn't look quite like locust. I have never done any hedge so I wasn't sure. The wood did look a little bit more yellow than BL.
