Black Locust Score Behind The Dollar General Store

I needed to get some trigger time in cutting something with my freshly resurrected 028 wood boss, so I decided to halve the elm rounds from this score. She’s a noodler!

 

The corp was busy back then! There were three flood control lakes built in my small town in about 1960. It used to flood a lot, it was a terrible problem. Must be in a bowl of topography.

 

Alright, I have to share this even though it’s not firewood related. Back when I first worked this score, a coworker of mine grabbed a bunch of black locust logs for milling, with no solid plan in mind for the lumber. Fast forward over a year and a half, and it finally came to fruition. Behold, the highest BTU deck in southern New England!

EDIT:
The first course of lumber in the foreground is white oak. The rest is black locust.

 

Very nice!

 

I thought so too. This is the entrance to his wood shop. Makes me want to save up to buy a sawmill someday...

 

Nice. Did he varnish them?

 

Spar urethane.

 

Purty. Did he make any comments on what working with the wood is like? Personally from my little experience I find it stable but easy to split boards with fasteners. Looks like he screwed it down? And plugged?

 

He did note that it was hard on his sawmill blade(s). I have to imagine his planer blades too. I haven't seen it in person yet but I think you're right, he pre-drilled his holes, sunk the screw heads and plugged them afterwards.

 

And to think of all the lumber I've turned into firewood.

Have yet to do anything with the BL I milled at buzz saw's in 2022. Thinking I'll make some simple stand up planters.

 

Whats left there in terms of BL Eric? Have you gone in there lately?

 

I haven't snooped around there in a while. Last time I had a good look back in the spring, the homeless encampment was still in the woods, so I gave up. Unfortunate really. There was at least a couple more loads of BL from what I remember.

 

S'pose we could go back when the leaves drop and I could fire up the 400 with the bark box muffler. That should keep em at bay.

 

Cleared em out a nice spot eh?

 

Thread bump. Almost 3 years after working here with buZZsaw BRAD, and this spot is still producing. This past weekend's prolonged rain event caused one of the black locust trees on the edge of the parking lot to break apart and hit the asphalt. It was plastered with an untold amount of bittersweet vines but better than poison ivy, as Brad pointed out. I PM'd Brad asking if he wanted it, as I've been too busy around the house to hoard more firewood. He indeed was interested (big surprise Mr. Locust King himself wants more locust!) so I talked to the owner of the property and was granted permission to cut up and remove said tree. Brad came up this morning to work the score. Unfortunately I didn't have much time to either stuporvise or hang out, but we did end up having a short BS session together.

Pictures from the day it came down:



Some of Brad's handiwork working on what he was keeping from the top:




On Labor Day I went and picked up a new used truck that belonged to my late mother in law that passed at the end of July. I told myself (and my wife) that I'm always going to baby this thing and keep the mileage low.


That doesn't mean that it's not a truck, and won't be used as such This is the first wood that I've moved with it. In true Brad fashion, he showed up bearing gifts. Some smoked cheese and.... this hophornbeam. I never scored any before myself, and seldom see them out in the wild. Thanks again Brad

My 15 year old lucked out today and had a last minute day off from school due to a mechanical issue at the tech school he's enrolled at. He tagged along for the ride. That's my newly resurrected Poulan top handle on the tailgate. I made a couple small cuts with it, but still need to tweak the high jet a tad. It was running pretty fat up top.

 

Brad’s load:

 

Thanks for posting the pic.

An embarrassing amount of room left there!

I had unloaded the uncut limb wood when I realized I could use my phone and send you the pic.

Had I got the rest of the trunk it would've made a full load.