How do you folks feel about an entire triaxle load of locust logs for firewood? I’ve never burned any & im not to familiar with it other than what I’ve seen here. Is it a species that takes a long time to season once cut & split? Thanks all.
Grab it! It seasons fast, splits easy, and burns hot. It may have some black ants, or locust borers, but they will leave once the wood is dry.
very dense for either varity, split it will take 2 years at least to season avg. Locust is a bit tough to ignite so best to have a smaller fire going before adding. btu wise right up the with Oaks , hard Maple, Beech . I like locust some don't because of it scent when burning - but then some don't like oaks for the same reason. I am usually on a mission to find locust-as most everyone else always wants oak- which drives the price up or its long gone before I can get there. If I could only have 3 types of wood I would go with locust , maples and trash elms, that would cover the entire season for me
I think you should send that load to GA, we can worry about the season time......never burned any either, but would love to try it.
Black locust burns long, provides a lot of BTUs and leaves little ash. It's my favorite wood to burn. You can leave it stacked for a long time (years) before it even considers starting to rot. It is stringy when splitting. I had several tri-axle loads dropped at my place quite a few years ago from one of my construction jobs. Just used the last of it up this past winter. Wish I could get my hands on more.
It is good wood, for sure. I've burned it and it does put out the heat, but, if i recall correctly it did soot up the chimney a little more than some other woods i've burned. BUT, that might have been because it wasn't quite seasoned enough. If you can get a good load of it, i'd sure take it.
This! ^ ^ ^ I like to throw a few pieces into a load...I don't think I would like using a 100% locust load though...
One thing that struck me reading through the posts is that we don't know what kind of locust it is. As I understand, there is a difference between honey locust and black locust. One thing I'd be interested to know before buying, besides the type, is does it have thorns? If it does have thorns I for sure would not even consider it. Someone mentioned the scent of BL. I had never burned any so a friend brought some for me to try. There was probably enough for a weeks burning and before the week was out my wife told me straight out that she did not want any of that stuff ever again to come onto our property. She hated the smell, which, I agree, was bad. They tell me if you debark it then it does not smell. But just think of the work involved in debarking! So I don't know if I'm happy for you or sad that you did not get that load.
if dried to less than 20% i don't even notice the scent outside let alone any inside. Thorns that would be Honey locust the true type not the hybrid thornless ornamental ones ( they burn just as well). black locust when split is kinda yellow at first , honey is kinda pinkish. Bark on Black is very craggy honey is relatively smooth. When honey is dry enough the bark just about falls off by itself- I can't remember if the black did the same thing or not. Honey locust is not a true locust- different family. Nit picking- still lots of btu's and that's what I am after. Seberian elm ( pizz elm, Chinese elm)) and other elm do about the same and likely your better half would complain about those also. Heck even the ash when dry enough tends to shed it's bark. But as the saying goes happy wife - happy life. Don't have one anymore so no worries here in that department.
Mmmm locust! Sorry ya missed out. Don’t see too much around here but when I do, it’s excellent. Probably top 5 for me.
Not a bad price...he's not giving it away, but not bad...would be worth putting an order in if he gets more...Dennis brings up a good point though, might want to find out the exact variety it is. As was mentioned, it's all good firewood, but the prickly stuff kinds sucks, although, a log load probably wouldn't be too bad to deal with...a lot of the prickers have probably been broken/smashed/ripped off by the time you get those logs. Now dropping and delimbing one really sucks though!
I prefer black locust over honey locust at this point. Black seems to season better within 2 years. My current stash of honey locust I am going to burn after 3 or 4 summers, because the 2 summer seasoned stuff just wasn't quite there.
