Big freebie stack, help a newb ID and tell me what to get!

Yup that's BL. Nice find.

Perfect outdoor wood. Outlasts pressure treated 3 to 1

 

Some tension in these ones. Got two 8ft four inchers out of it but I’m not sure if I can make 4x4s out of this crazy pith slab. What happens if you have a centered pith in a 4x4 then it wanders out the side a foot or two down the board?

 

Trying to keep it straight during the drying process will probably be a challenge.

 

Big black Wally crotch. Had to mount up the 42” bar on the ported 2188!

 

Some cool looking slabs.

A Stihl bar on a Jonsered?

 

Haha does husky sell anything over 36”? Couldn’t find anything when I was looking

 

Those slabs are looking interesting

 

yuck what is that??

 

Dung beetle larvae!

Just kidding. One of the seemingly endless creepy crawlies that like to eat wood!

 

I was going to say could be someone’s lunch

 

Calling JB Sawman He has milled a lot of BL.

 

It might be the larva starting to pupate. I've found half worm, half winged bugs in punky maple.

 

I looked at that picture the big problem with milling black locust is the nature of that species is it grows fast and the pith or center of the tree is all over the place I have milled such crooked logs of BL and got straight boards then I milled a arrow straight log and they went all over the place it was tough to get good boards that is one of the reasons you can get top money for it you have to saw a lot of logs to get what you need it just did not seem to react like other wood JB

 

My big 12.5 ft ash 6” slab cracked right down the middle so I milled it into beams:

 

Milled into the stump for some 6x6s to dry these on

 

The timeout chair

 

Next target: White oak (I think) blowdown. Tried to get back there but the mosquitos started carrying me away.

 

This one I am not sure on. Any ideas?

 

Some variety of oak maybe. Any leaf pics chunez? That would nail down the ID