Black Locust grows straight and fast. You're young enough, you could plant a few hundred and in 20 years you'll have more firewood than you'll want to split. And it's cheap. You can buy 2' seedlings for $2 each. Buy 500 & plant in a way so you can keep the weeds in check with your mower. So, $1,000 and mow for a couple years till they can fend for themselves and you've got yourself a butt-load of high quality firewood.
That's definitely black locust. Not only some of the best firewood, but also makes great lumber if you have a sawmill and can find good straight solid trees in decent size. Only things to watch out for are carpenter ants and poison ivy.
Locust is great wood!! Like you, I love how well it splits. I don't get much of it though. It does make you feel like a tough guy when hand splitting LOL
ya thats locust. it makes good fence post too. 25 years ago my brother and i cut a bunch of 8-10" locust poles about 8 foot long and split them lengthwise with wedges. it split surprisingly easy. they are still holding my fence up around my garden.
That is some nice splittin' for firewood and love how easy the Fiskars X27 handles it! I'll be the third commenter to encourage you to come to the HFH24!!
Locust has been my favorite for a long time. It burns hot, lasts a long time and is easy to split. Sassafras is a much lighter wood and is similar to poplar in the way it burns. I have a lot of big sassafras on my place . Some people say it is great smoking wood. I don't smoke but it burns good once it is seasoned
Good to know! I know sassafras looks similar but I hadn’t handled it so I didn’t know the weight. The locust is definitely dense and heavy. Thanks for stopping by James!
Could be black locust, honey locust has a little bit of a orange hue but lots of the same characteristics. Hard as bone but brittle so it splits good. Sometimes needs a couple wacks to get the split to propagate. Heavy and dense. Burns great. Dries decently fast.
Yes sir! Definitely locust now that you split it open! Love it! The woods behind our house is full of it. It’s actually considered an invasive species here in Illinois! Great firewood. As others have stated the bark will fall off making it even better in time. Take care Genin! Are you going to attend HFH 24😂👊🏻
Looks like locust to me! It made some really nice looking splits! It definitely burns hot and very rot resistant! Makes nice fence posts 😆 That full tote should bring premium price!!
One drawback to locust is if you load your stove with nothing but locust, you end up with hot coals very quickly, but they don’t create as much heat. By the afternoon, my stove would have 8 inches of red hot coals that heat the room, but not the rest of the house. No room to add more wood with so many coals. I’ve not seen this happen with any other wood?
Yup, you have a real winner there! Locust ...awesome wood! (the T is silent my wife tells me) and she is way smarter than me! Your splitter is better looking than mine!
Nice job Gennin. No locust in Minnesota that I have heard of. Possibly south eastern part. Sure looks like a nice firewood. You really like that ultra. I am surprised Andrew hasn’t come up with something for a lift. Probably runs the cost to high. Later. Al
I love this ultra and one of the reasons I love it is because it doesn’t have a lift making is prefect to run from either side, lightweight and easy to move around. Thanks for stopping by Allen
I like the look of that wood and how it appears to split! Wish we had some in my neck of the woods. I like that bucket a lot. I'm looking for a 96" snow/material bucket for my machine now.
I found more, not as much as I’d like but there a whole area in the woods full of it, it’s just not in a convenient location. Thanks for watching Kenny!
Honey locust is similar- just much brighter in color. Someone developed a spineless variety, and it's been planted all over the northeast and E Canada as an ornamental tree. It'll grow damn near anywhere, and is very tolerant of air pollution- so many city streets are lined with it. Which, of course, means that tree services cut lots of it. Easy to identify: Bright yellow sapwood, and red/orange heartwood. Bark is thinner and tighter than black locust- and makes WAY less of a mess as it dries. Hard to describe, but distinctive to look at. It actually smells like pickles and tomatoes when split, lol. UNlike Black Locust- which is 100% poisonous, every part- honey locust beans are edible! VERY hard, splits easily into nice smooth pieces, and burns like coal. So hot, there's not that much visible flame. Some slabs would make for very cool looking table tops, coffee tables, etc. The grain looks very similar to red oak, but the color is a dead giveaway.
Nice wood! We find it in corners of old farm fields where most likely a farmer planted it for use as future fence posts. I've split wood by hand for 30 years and found the Fiskars to be my favorite.
Great wood with only one/two drawbacks I know of from years of burning it. The bark! Eats up sharp chains rather quickly, and leaves a lot of ash if the bark is left on. If you season it for 2 years though, almost all the bark will just about fall off or easily pulled off. When that happens, you have the ultimate firewood IMHO….Hotter then Oak and leaves a nice coal base too. Back to the negative…..the bark grabs tons of debris when/while in log form, if brought/drug in out of the woods. Keep it clean and it’s not so bad. It splits great by hand or machine and the bark that drops off or pulled off is great for an outside fire pit too. Just thought I would toss my 2cents in 🥸 Great video Genin 🔥🪵👍👏🇺🇸 Rick PS: one other negative……Carpenter Ants love this stuff !
Excellent advice Rick, I did find the bark to leave a lot of ash in my previous experience burning it as well. Thanks for sharing, it is greatly appreciated and helpful!
One thing you will want to watch is that locust pops and throws sparks quite a bit when it burns. Just be aware of that, and take common sense precautions. Stay warm and take care.
Its Locust. I have plenty of Locust on my property in Western North Carolina. I have 3 Stihl chainsaws. However No splitter. No truck. No trailer. No tractor. No skid steer. MS261 , MS250 & MS171 are my 3 chainsaws. I drive an old van. I'm 64 years old very skinny and have asthma. However i still cut down trees. Nothing larger than 18 inches in width. What area are you located ?
Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t. I am not sure what the science is behind it. When it is green and split it does have a honey scent to it and the bark is not as thick and stringy.
Do you have iron wood 🪵 in your state Genin . Iiii iiiii Jeremiah in the 608 got a new wolf ridge this morning , he a happy wood 🪵 hound now . See that all your WHITE GOLD is gone , we are getting big rain 🌧 and 100 miles wind 🌬 tonight. Probably kill our snowmobile weather now we had very very little White Gold this winter . 😊
Hey, what’s up buddy. I just finally pulled the trigger and picked up a bulk material bucket similar to that cost me thousand dollars didn’t want to spend that much but around here that was the cheapest I can find everybody else wanted 1500 for an 84 inch wide one what size is yours? Can’t tell from the video looks big tho
Mine is a 72”. It was a little more than 1k but it is made out of thicker steel than some of the cheaper ones I found. I wanted to get one that wouldn’t get destroyed if I put it on a skidsteer in the future.
