honey locust from hell.

[treeslayer]

"osage orange" from hell.

this was the about the nastiest tree I think I have ever climbed. it ate me up, thorns, sucker growth, and horribly intertwined branches.
and a "little" bit of lean.

guy paid cash though.

 

[treeslayer]

took a hour to set the ropes in that big arse osage orange, and clean out thebottom limbs so I could get into the tree.

 

[treeslayer]

leaning. hard.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Don't be shy to join the party... YOU bring the Bar-b-q wings!


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[treeslayer]

topping out.

 

[treeslayer]

hanging out. this was a good feeling, no more brush.
I like throwing big wood.

 

[treeslayer]

finally got a break>

 

[MasterBlaster]

Nice pics, TS!

 

[treeslayer]

oh, yeah, comprimised rootball.

 

[treeslayer]

whole lot of these.

ok, though, this tree is now firewood.

 

[Dadatwins]

Nice removal, thorny locust worst tree to work on always donate a pint of blood by days end. Cash does ease some pain though

 

[murphy4trees]

I like the standing on top the tree pic... you might have to replace your avatar...
Were you rigging off natural crotches on the osage orange???

 

[fmueller]

So how long did it take you all together to take down that nasty mama?

 

[TreeJunkie]

That looks alot more like a hedge or Osage Orange than a locust to me. I'm not saying youre wrong but here in the midwest we have alot of both and i'm pretty familiar....They both have thorns..Do we have a mix up?

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

what did you do after lunch lol

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

was that honeylocust? looked bore like balck locust.

Honey locust thorns.

 

[treeslayer]

Originally posted by TreeJunkie
That looks alot more like a hedge or Osage Orange than a locust to me. I'm not saying youre wrong but here in the midwest we have alot of both and i'm pretty familiar....They both have thorns..Do we have a mix up?

I think you're right. Hedge apple/ osage the same thing? I'm not real good at identifying odd trees. The wood was real yellow, with a grain like locust, all them thorns confuses me.

Total climbing time= ( including setting ropes in adjacent tree), little less than 3 hours. my ground man for the day cleaned it up while I hauled the wood to a friends house.

Yes daniel, natural crotches, by the time the wood finished that hellacious swing it was only 10' off the ground.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

If the wood was real hard, then it is Oasage alright. Also one of the higher BTU trash woods, if you burn your own stuff :Eye:

If that was a "wild" honeylocust, oyu would be calling Billy down to help out

 

[dtw902]

Cut it up for fire wood soon the older it gets the harder it gets. I've seen 20 year old hedge posts that I are hard as nails, try driving fence staples in them. Good firewood if you have a good wood stove, wouldn't recomend burning it in a fireplace. Don't know of any other wood with a higher B T U rating, at least not in my neck of the woods.

 

[OutOnaLimb]

Do you guys have any Russian Olives out that way? ACK. thank god they dont get that big. But i know a guy that makes some beautiful furnature out of that dark wood.