I'm excited to get mine in the stove! Just picked up some the other day for the first time actually. Not even split yet though, and freshly cut down. So I'll be waiting a while haha.
The second pic looks like some powdered post beetle nibbles? I wonder if they got to sharpen their jaws as much as we sharpen chains cutting that stuff?
Ive burned some this winter. It is awesome. Some say it takes a bit of a blaze to get going but it’s been great at getting started relatively quick. I’m not complaining but it’s gonna throw that heat at you when you need it so make sure its decently cold out.
Hoping I can burn some I split/stacked a couple of months ago next winter. If not I'll wait another year.
The pieces in my pics were fallovers that were on the ground for years. They looked completely worthless, but they were still solid feeling. So I cut into them and was amazed that the inside is still like fresh wood after years of neglect sitting in the weeds on the wet ground. If you find one that looks old, crusty, rotten, and basically junk...think again.
I actually have Black Locus, though it is not native here. This was planted MANY years ago at my Grandmother's house. It is probably 54 inches or so in diameter, but I am not cutting it any time soon.
That is actually a sun rise, but there was no way for you to know that I know. Our sun sets are actually much better then our sun rises! The tree is reasonably healthy I guess. Not sure on the age because while the house is a 4 Square, putting its construction at around the year 1900, but the house replaced a dance hall prior to that which burned. I have maps of our property here from 1859 and it shows the dance hall then, and just behind the Black Locus are some apple trees some 18 inches in diameter. These are grafted trees so I know they were planted, but how fast an apple trees grows I am not sure, but I know it is not fast. This is a sun set.
I have all my wood mixed up in the woodshed, but I am separating out the locust for the really cold nights we're inevitably gonna get before Spring.
We had a lot of of black locust in our yard when I was a kid (and burned a lot of it). Burns like hellfire and seems to be totally rot-proof. Good stuff.
