Special thanks to Eric Wanderweg for having me out to cut a load of black locust at one of his "secret" locations. Half cord load of green and barkless wood. Gross...lots of maggots found. Typical for bark on BL that has sat for a few months and the bark peels off rather easily. Split the rounds off the truck. I separate bark on and bark off for different stacks. Just the smalls left to buck. Thanks again buddy. Always fun hoarding with a fellow FHCer!
Great to cut with you again Brad. Hard to believe it’s been just about a year since I’ve seen you and 4 years since we cut locust together at that location.
Thats a nice little honey hole. Of course with the way I hoard it'd be depleted in 2-3 loads. Be sure to grab that dead BB. Don't want me coming back to check do you?
I’ve had those maggots under the honey locust bark too. Nice wood get. Can never have too much locust.
Yeah its pretty bad smelling. Actually the reason I was originally turned off by BL at first. I can deal with snakes, bees, mice and other creepy crawlies but maggots really skeeve me out. Try not to touch it when handling otherwise the smell gets on your gloves. Also seen on honey locust and I believe other woods with the stringy bark after it decays a bit. IINM maybe cottonwood bark too.
Those maggots are just protein while you hoard. BL keeps you warm and feeds you! But seriously, maggots are kind of gross.
A rack emptied today so the bark on splits went in it. The limb wood once bucked will go in there as well. The barkless wood will be moved to another location where I only store BL. There's splitter shards and little chunkies in the feed bags
I've been burning a fair amount of BL from my big score May 22. This is my first significant experience with the stuff, and it's fast becoming my new favorite firewood.
buZZsaw BRAD thought of you this morning when we got to a new jobsite. Wanna take a guess what species this flooring is?
Thats cool. Yup looks like some of the BL grain from logs we milled at buzz-saw's. Haven't built anything from it yet. I know a company that sells BL decking and related one by lumber. Wasn't aware it was made for indoor use...assuming that is for indoors.
Yeah, indoor. Most of the whole house will be done with it. Supposedly milled from trees cut off the same property. I'm pretty curious how it's gonna finish out. Not sure what stain/finish is planned.
Any aroma as you were cutting it? At first I didn't like the smell of fresh cut BL, but now often catch myself sniffing fresh splits of green wood.
