Summertime Firewood Festival
My brother's girlfriend had this locust tree go down in her yard.
Fifteen years ago a blight killed all the locust trees. It takes 'em a while to keel over.
This tree is a monster, this tree is 22 inches diameter at the base.
The biggest I have ever seen was 12 inches.
My brother splits 'em with the Ochsenkopf aluminum wedge and the sledge hammer.
Locust is hard to cut, even with a big chain saw. The wood is very hard and dense.
There was no rot in this tree. This is the best firewood available in the state, if not in the country.
This is the finest load of firewood I have ever gotten and I have gotten many many truck loads.
My brother also got a truck load out of this tree.
To be honest, all my wood piles are full, and I have a lot of wood piles.
I don't have room for this wood but I just couldn't say no.
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Locust has a distinctive stink when cutting it green. 0 -
+1 allways thought it smelled like dog pee..........buddyb wrote:Locust has a distinctive stink when cutting it green.0 -
Allen, I do not live too far away.
If you have way too much Firewood, I can come down and help you out.
I'd be willing to take that "smelly," Locust off your hands.
You know, in order to help you out.0 -
I burn 90% locust, I agree with everything you said. Cutting an old locust right before dark, you can see sparks coming from the cut. I know where one is about 30? at the base. False Acacia is the botanical name for them.
You have to sharpen you chain more often, but it?s worth it. I won?t turn down locust, no matter how hot the weather.
That?s two rows deep, 90% of it is locust.
https://imgur.com/gallery/FFtBf570 -
so that's what that was! yep I cut down something like that once, sparks coming off the chain and I went through all 4 chains I had cutting down that %$&# tree. (got dull) dead, dry and still hard as hell.
those are something to avoid.0 -
I?m gonna tell AOC you all are cutting down the rain forrest!! Think she knows the rain forrest ain?t in N.C. Or Tenn.?? 0 -
buschmaster wrote:so that's what that was! yep I cut down something like that once, sparks coming off the chain and I went through all 4 chains I had cutting down that %$&# tree. (got dull) dead, dry and still hard as hell.
those are something to avoid.
if you went through 4 chains it was not locust . maybe osage orange
I have cut 2 pickup loads of locust with the same chain and could still cut another before sharpening0 -
I was using a new chain, full chisel Oregon chain. 20 inch bar.
I was using, of course, a cant hook so I kept the chain out of the dirt, Gott Sei Dank.
The chain made it through OK but could use a little sharpening.
It is unbelievable how difficult it is to saw through that dry locust.
I checked with my moisture meter, it is 21 percent moisture.0 -
Here is that truckload, all split and stacked. Fourteen feet long and 3 feet high, wood is 18 inches long.
It is a lot more than what it looked like in the truck.
I already have 4 wood piles, including my de luxe wood shed, but I had to invent a 5th wood pile to accomodate this
beautiful stack of wood.0
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