Steve2910
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BL would have been my guess. Seems that all yellow wood is good. We burn Bl & Mulberry here & will soon be (hopefully) trying Hedge.
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BL would have been my guess. Seems that all yellow wood is good. We burn Bl & Mulberry here & will soon be (hopefully) trying Hedge.
Hedgerow
HACK
Hedge is interesting stuff... Behaves like coal... I really like other stuff to mix with it... It's btu's are tops...
BrokenToys
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As the other said; yes, it is Black Locust. I got a lot of that wood [the locust pile is about 4' high and 8' wide, it goes around the back of the garage] from a local Church when Hurricane Irene blew through Long Island and knocked a bunch over. They couldn't afford to pay a company to clean their yard so a few of us all went there and helped remove the branches and trees and we all made out well with firewood.
Splitting it isn't too bad, as long as it isn't twisted. Burns very nice in the stove; but I have read in a fireplace it pops a bit. The Mockernut Hickory and Mulberry on the other hand.....it's like rubber. Takes about 5-6 shots before it starts to crack. I read here to let it sit for a while until it starts to check than go at it; but the weather was nice and figured what the heck. I stack the wheelbarrow loads and my son stacks the wagon loads. We're a good team !
Hedgerow
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The Black Locust has thorns, but it's the Honey Locust that's known for "the nasty's"...
ShaneLogs
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The Black Locust has thorns, but it's the Honey Locust that's known for "the nasty's"...
Ouch, Those thorns look like they could tear you up pretty good!
Steve2910
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Same w/ the BL we've been burning. Some of it's been dead-standing for 20 years or more. If you can imagine the petrified wood from science class actually being able to ignite, that's what it's like.
We had some friends over last winter & I had some of it going in the fire pit... everybody was warm, but my wife complained that there wasn't enough flame... I had to go down to the wood pile & get some Poplar & Silver Maple so she could have some "fireworks". I'll love that woman until I die, but the stuff she thinks is important???
Steve2910
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No thorns on them around here, except on the saplings. Even those aren't that bad. Get Hedge to post a pic of the Honey Locust thorns, those are SCARY!:mad2:
ShaneLogs
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No thorns on them around here, except on the saplings. Even those aren't that bad. Get Hedge to post a pic of the Honey Locust thorns, those are SCARY!:mad2:
He just did, They look scary!:msp_mellow:
Steve2910
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No thorns on them around here, except on the saplings. Even those aren't that bad. Get Hedge to post a pic of the Honey Locust thorns, those are SCARY!:mad2:
Sorry for being redundant.. He threw the HL pic up while I was typing.:redface:
ShaneLogs
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Hedgerow
HACK
I was thinking of taking a pic of one of the nastier ones and posting it over in the precision falling thread...
Tell them climbing boys, "Hey, I got this tree here I need you to climb up and knock the top out of it"...
Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!
3" thorns right in the sac!!!!
:hmm3grin2orange::hmm3grin2orange::hmm3grin2orange:
Tell them climbing boys, "Hey, I got this tree here I need you to climb up and knock the top out of it"...
Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!
3" thorns right in the sac!!!!
:hmm3grin2orange::hmm3grin2orange::hmm3grin2orange:
ShaneLogs
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HAHAHAHAHA! I would of just to be spiteful like that :hmm3grin2orange: That would totally ruin my day.
Steve2910
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Think you'd get any takers?? Besides, ( and I'm no Arborist, I just kill them for the BTUs), around here, they say that any tree surgeon that will top your tree is a hack.
describe our trimming, no topping
yesterday's woodcutting
Headed up the the Cloverdale property and quartered some 30+" White oak rounds (last week's project) then dropped a medium sized Tan Oak about 3' at the base. It had about a 20* lean and I couldn't quite keep it out of the other trees ...took out a smaller White oak in the process...o well. The Tan was half dead and needed to come down before it rotted. We got most of it cut up but still have a lot of brushing to do.
truck
I'll head back up there later this month and finish it up.
Headed up the the Cloverdale property and quartered some 30+" White oak rounds (last week's project) then dropped a medium sized Tan Oak about 3' at the base. It had about a 20* lean and I couldn't quite keep it out of the other trees
...took out a smaller White oak in the process...o well. The Tan was half dead and needed to come down before it rotted. We got most of it cut up but still have a lot of brushing to do.truck
I'll head back up there later this month and finish it up.
Hedgerow
HACK
"Knocking the top out of one" around here, isn't a term used in trimming or pruning... It's step one of the removal of a tree in chunks... Cause you can't just drop the whole thing...
Just like "cutting the knees off of a tree" refers to the removal of the root flair before making the face and back cut.
These are just hillbilly terms I suppose, and probably are wrong... But then again, we do a lot of things that are wrong around here...:msp_rolleyes:
2treeornot2tree
Dont cry, just do it
Got all my wood split that was laying around. Feels good to be caught up.
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Ayuh, that's the easiest way to fit a 100ft tree into a 50ft back yard. :msp_w00t: "Hillbilly terms", we use 'em up here too, and I sure ain't gonna ever claim I'm doing everything "right".....:hmm3grin2orange:
