Black Locust Score Behind The Dollar General Store

Eric Wanderweg · Jan 14, 2024

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!

Yawner · Jan 14, 2024

Eric Wanderweg said: ↑

You never know around here whether wood will get scooped up overnight or sit around for decades before someone sees the value in it. Given this score’s location in an area full of mostly multi family houses and rentals, I’m not surprised it sat this long untouched. I’m more amazed that 2011 somehow got 12 years behind us already. I got married that year, my cat had kittens, my older son was born, we had a major flood in August that put huge sections of the town underwater, then the freak Halloween snowstorm in October that left most of the state out of power for close to a week.
Then zooming out even further, there’s a story as to why this extensive black locust grove was here to begin with. In 1955 a hurricane stalled out for days over New England, and the floods that followed ruined entire towns. In the aftermath, the Army Corps of Engineers built dams all over the place, and in many municipalities black locust trees were planted along the river banks to help hold the soil in place. That’s where these were growing, close to a small stream that originated uphill somewhere near my house. So well over half a century after all the trees were planted, and the grove sprawled out to be the firewood gold mine nobody notices.
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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.

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Black Locust Score Behind The Dollar General Store

Eric Wanderweg

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