Locust?
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Ram 1500 with an axe...
Minister of Fire
I'm not sure if it's locust or acacia. Going for a second load anyway, i'm pretty sure it 'll burn!
Ram 1500 with an axe...
Minister of Fire
Locust will burn some HOT, great wood to have. I just split a bunch I got for free from a local tree company what was getting rid of it. Very stringy.
JOHN BOY
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Locust is a yellowish color inside, looks reddish or rust when it dries.
from what I can tell in the pics, it sure looks like black locust to me.....can you get us some good close-up pics of the bark, end grain and maybe even a split?
Locust will have a dense, yellow-greenish look to it when you fresh cut it. It will smell kinda like pimentoed olives when cut or or split. The end grain will have distinguishable annual rings too....
If that is in fact what it turns out to be, get all of it!!
Locust will have a dense, yellow-greenish look to it when you fresh cut it. It will smell kinda like pimentoed olives when cut or or split. The end grain will have distinguishable annual rings too....
If that is in fact what it turns out to be, get all of it!!
Didn't smell it. I thought I smelled dog crap, but I must have stepped in some picking it up. It does have a yellow green tint, and some of the drier ends are rust colored. IO got a good haul, 2 overloaded pickup loads, should be close to a cord. Another scrounger showed up with a 10,000 lb trailer and a helper as I was loading up my second load. A lot of old trees in this neighborhood. I picked up a couple truck loads of oak last year right on the same street.
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Thanks for the confirmation. The valley oak and others are the most recognizable tree around here for me. Eucalyptus, almond, walnut are common. I scrounged a similar looking tree earlier this year, the tree guy said it was acacia. Similar leaves and bark, but the bark is much lighter in color but similar in appearance.
Acacia (hardwood, not the softwood variety) from what I've read, looks to be pretty good BTU's......and a prized wood for flooring and furniture....
I'd be fine with that stuff, too. Was the acacia you got before the hardwood variety?
I don't know. It wasn't much. I only took it it on his word, and because he gave me two loads of blue oak. The lighter end s are the acacia, mixed with some almond. A few pics of a split that has been in the pile a few months, you can still see some of the yellow in the end corners that hasn't dried out yet, that's not sunlight.
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Good stuff Mr. A. I been doing the same, driving around looking for cut stuff along the roads. Such a scroung but if it were bar ells of heating oil I was picking up people wouldn't give me dirty looks when they drive by
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Woody Stover
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No, you didn't step in anything.
The smell is under the bark, not the wood itself. If you let those rounds sit, up off the ground, the bark will get loose and mostly fall off when you split it. You and use the bark for mulch, on paths etc.Great score!
No, you didn't step in anything.
Great score!
That's funny because I was checking the bottom of my boots and looking around not to step in the crap smell. I have a dog ans I know what a fresh one nearby smells like, maybe that's what pimiento olives smell like too? I don't eat them.
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