My first taste o honey. Someone beat me to about half of it but even at that I couldn’t say no. Brad says he had nothing to do with that LOL As rare as it is around here, at least for me, a lot of this may go towards small woodworking projects instead of firewood. It’s even got some of its dinosaur defense weapons still attached Coated with ivy of the nonpoisonous variety.
Lucked out a bit on them. Didn’t see them until they were loaded. Surprised I didn’t “get a feel” for honey locust the hard way
Yikes, i thought you said black locust? What was the address in Meriden? Last Summer i replied to an ad on FB and one tree was HL. Guy calls me next day and decided to keep the wood. I think i talked it up too much. It didnt have the thorns though. HL is hard stuff. IMO it rivals BL
The stuff ive scrounged didnt have the thorns. Good thing you had the winch. Only time ive ever seen them was on a yard tree which im not 100% sure it was HL.
Use the top side of your bar to take them off, it works great. The feel of Honey Locust the hard way makes me swell up. Wherever I get stabbed I will get a large marble sized knot that lasts for a couple days. I’ve been stabbed in the meat of my fingers & it’s difficult to have full functionality of that appendage for a couple days.
Yeah the winch probably saved me from an ouchie. Those are the only thorns I could find on the trunk. More of an anomaly than the standard. Homeowner said it had no thorns on the trunk, just the branches. She even found a thorn on the ground but chucked it. She also said the tree guys who chipped it up were well protected. Can you imagine a few of the babies flying out of a chipper at ya? Yowza. You’re not sure your pic is HL? Any other contenders?
Hawthorne. I posted a thread on it a year ago. It was in the yard of a wood customer ironically. Here's the link Mystree ornamental? Is this honey locust?
Within a couple of weeks after you split and stack that honey locust you'll start seeing piles of fine sawdust all over the splits. The 'drilling bugs' love it....and hickory too.
Best I can tell is nothing but really cold weather will stop them and then only until it warms again. I just live and let live until I burn the splits! I do think they slow their munching as the wood dries. Others may have a better answer.
I have a full cord stack of yard hybrid honey locust (no thorns) that i finished stacking in the Fall. The wood was acquired from May to October and processed right away. I have yet to top cover and will check for borer activity. Stack pic from late October
Open air seems to work better for me, the stuff I had in an old wooden crib was terrible, I had to wear googles & dust mask to load it out. I had some cut/split at the same time that I had on pallets out in the open with no covering it had a few borers but not like the stuff inside. That was brutal. I think they like the shade that enclosures/covering provides.
