The thorns on these trees are relentless! I ring them or girdle them then let them stand a year. It that years time the thorns dry out so I burn them off with a weed burner. Super easy to deal with then. Well even after all that you find more thorns when you split on the inside of log. Every time I see this I wonder how the tree can grow around the thorns!
You don't need to girdle them to burn them off. They are extremely dry and ready to burn on a live tree. I use them to get fires going in the woods in the cold of winter while processing wood
Ornamental thornless ones are used in commercial landscaping here. They're all pretty young. I never noticed them until I realized what they were, and now I see them everywhere.
Yes honey locust. Mine is the same, what I css last January is still 26-28%. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Yup the wood needs two to three years to dry. Thorns burn right off with a weed torch without girdling
I've never seen that on any honey locust I've split...had no idea they formed inside the tree like that. We have a ton of it here but the ones I cut are always standing dead and the thorns fall right off. The ones I cut over the winter are ready to burn the next winter. I've only cut a couple "fresh" trees that fell over and the thorns are easy to knock off with a few swipes from the chainsaw....just make sure you don't have to drive over that area.....
Yeah! they are an annoying invasive species that need to be eradicated. Oh S#!t! I was one of them many years ago.
