No, im not replacing Ms. buZZsaw! Got an email from an old friend the other day. He's cutting some trees at his sisters and was giving me dibs on the wood. Stopped the other day to check it out. Hybrid honey locust (i think) yard tree. My first ever true score of HL! WooHoo! Stopped by on Friday to check it out, but no time to grab any. Manageable rounds but cut to all different lengths....6"-18" I stopped today and his BIL had felled another. I grabbed that one for now. This is some heavy and dense stuff which rivals black locust. Drove right up to it in the yard and loaded. Quick load up. Split a couple with the Fiskars rather easily. Just by coincidence, its on the way to my friends where i store wood and i drive by the house all the time. Poorer quality pics taken with my cheapo flip phone. Forgot digital camera. Some serious growth rings Told him to leave this log and ill buck it...to 16" lengths! About half a truck load then off to my friends to unload. May grab more this week. Making a one cord bin for nuggets and it all may end up in there. Prefer to get the bin built first.
Honey Locust with no thorns!!! Now, that's stylin'... I just put new 4 ply tires on the front of my mowing tractor over the weekend and was out mowing today and went down one of the paths I thought was safe and picked up 2 thorns in the right side new tire. Grrrrr... At least plugging a tubeless is way easier than changing tubes... The old tires had tubes in them cuz they had been plugged so many times they wouldn't hold air any more.
Thats very aggravating! Glad theres none around here. Does HL bloom MAF143 ? Do the flowers look like strawberry blooms?
I was sweatin' yesterday. Not sure what type of wood i smelled like. I sacrificed a virgin tree to the wood gods. A cherry tree that is!
Love me some HL. It's a hardwood tree that is surprisingly easy to find in Colorado. It's super heavy and dense. It burns like coal. It's friggin amazing. It seems to take a bit longer than most hardwoods to season though.
For the life of me, I never could understand why so many people will cut wood to different lengths. I realize they don't burn wood but simple thought should tell them that the wood should be cut to the same lengths to fit into a stove. I could believe finding someone once in a while like that but it seems it happens over and over again to most all who do not burn wood.
yes they bloom, I can't get a good view typically here cuz most of our mature trees are in the woods and are very tall, but they kinda resemble a small cluster similar to a Wisteria bloom only way smaller. Kinda yellowish / whiteish. I usually miss them...
I also broke into more of a sweat than I like Noodling that maple yesterday. Time to fire up the AC already Glad it was t just me tho. I worry myself sometimes
Nice score! Our hybrid HL that we have around here don't really bloom, but they do produce some seed pods. Some trees do make more pods than others though.
It is beyond annoying for someone like myself. Had this not been honey locust i may not have taken it. I had asked my friend if he cut more trees to mark and cut 16" and wanted to leave my folding rule and a piece of chalk. He kinda looked at me as if i had two heads. When i talked with his BIL today i shouldve offered to fell and buck the other trees...sugar maple, red oak and ash...medium size yard trees.
Stopped on the way home and grabbed the rest of the HL. Thought the big pile was all HL but some other mystery wood underneath. I think it was butternut??? Logs i bucked and stump too. Nice to have a consistent length. About 3/4 PU full.
split all that i could from the two trees yesterday. Have to buck and noodle some yet. Two different varieties. One on right resembles "normal" HL whereas the left is some type of hydrid.
I was back in the woods yesterday in the Walnut planting area spot spraying the Multi-Floral Rose and Honeysuckle that is re-sprouting. I saw TONS of tiny little HL sprouts. Haven't seen any Walnut sprouts yet. The HL once it gets established will take off and grow FAST when they are out in the sun and in halfway decent soil. The down side is that I have changed 3 tubes in the front tires of the Ferguson in the last two weeks... I gotta get to the store and pick up another patch kit. I have a bunch of spare tubes and I keep them patched and ready to go, but I ran out of patches a while back. I have one spare patched tube left for that tractor. The smaller Ingersolls both are all tubeless now and it's easy to plug a tire. PITA to change a tube. I've been looking for a tubeless solution for the Fergy, but haven't found anything affordable yet. I may have to take them and get them foamed. I'm not sure if I want to do that because I had put a foamed tire on my wheelborrow a few years ago and it's not nearly as good as an aired tire at 20psi. It's too smooshy when I get a few hundred pounds in it and it's harder to push than a nice aired up tire. I like the HL for keeping us warm in the winter, but these thorny devils we have are an extra aggrevation.
