Some kind of locust?

[Rangerbait]

Grabbed some of this yesterday after work...anyone know what this is?

 

[TedyOH]

Black locust

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[Rangerbait]

Black locust

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I was thinking the wood would be more yellow than that, but it's a pretty young tree.

 

[Rangerbait]

Sweet, they just dropped about 15 more of them...gonna try to head out sometime this weekend and grab the rest!

 

[Lakeside]

Looks more like Honey Locust to me .

It's all good stuff.

 

[Rangerbait]

Looks more like Honey Locust to me .

It's all good stuff.

Can't wait to burn this in like 3 years...right about the time Oprah and Ted Nugent are debating for the 2020 presidential election.

 

[Lakeside]

TedyOH , maybe right after giving it some more thought it could be Black Locust. I think it is because it is young tree my locust radar is having difficulty.

So at least - my earlier comment applies 100 % = It's all good stuff !

 

[STIHLY DAN]

That is most definitely not black locust. The bark is thick with bl and it does not have thorns. Honey is my guess.

 

[begreen]

Nice score! Locust should be good to burn after 2 yrs, when split, stacked and covered. I love burning it.

 

[Michael Sean]

That is most definitely not black locust. The bark is thick with bl and it does not have thorns. Honey is my guess.

I have a ton of BL on my farm and young trees do have thorns on them

 

[Michael Sean]

Also honey locust has clusters of thorns

 

[CheapBassTurd]

That stuff is the Cadillac of overnite burning. lol

Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeap

 

[fbelec]

def honey with the thorns. i had plenty of black locust. no thorns. that must be nasty to handle. if like black locust it dries way quicker than oak burns very hot and long with lots of coals. great score.

 

[STIHLY DAN]

I have a ton of BL on my farm and young trees do have thorns on them

Those

I have a ton of BL on my farm and young trees do have thorns on them

Those pics are not of any young tree.. BL has like 1 inch thick bark. I have never seen thorns on BL. Maybe your BL is really HL.

 

[nrford]

Strange one, Black and Honey locust can and do have thorns, but the wood of this one looks like neither of those. Anyone else suspect that it may be Hawthorn??

 

[Rangerbait]

Made it out again on Friday to grab most of the rest of it...still not entirely sure what this stuff is, but it's heavy af

 

[TedyOH]

Strange one, Black and Honey locust can and do have thorns, but the wood of this one looks like neither of those. Anyone else suspect that it may be Hawthorn??

I did....but the Hawthorne around here never get that big though and the have the big HL thorns, not the little ones in the OPs original pic.

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[TreePointer]

Around here all black locust saplings and very young trees growing in the wild have thorns on the main stem/trunk and branches. Mature black locust trees won't have thorns on the main trunk and large branches, but thorns will be see in smaller new growth. Black locust thorns are similar in SHAPE and DISTRIBUTION to rose stems while honey locust thorns are in clusters and have much longer thorns than black locust

Note that there are thornless cultivars of both honey and black locust. In my region the thornless honey locust is a popular parking lot and grassy median tree.

The leaves in the back of the truck bed are black locust--not honey locust or hawthorn.

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[TreePointer]

That is most definitely not black locust. The bark is thick with bl and it does not have thorns. Honey is my guess.

You do make a good point about the bark looking too thin for black locust. Some rounds pictured do have the thicker bark typical of black locust but not all of them. It threw me off from the beginning.

 

[cptoneleg]

not BL

 

[Rangerbait]

not BL

Then what?

 

[Dieselhead]

Here is a typical black locust with its one of a kind bark. By going through google images I'd go with honey locust is what you have.

 

[Dieselhead]

Honey looks like it can have varying amounts of thorns

 

[Vikestand]

That is most definitely not honey locust. Honey locust is the devil.

 

[Rangerbait]

Here is a typical black locust with its one of a kind bark. By going through google images I'd go with honey locust is what you have.

Bear in mind these trees are at the most 10 years old...where I come from, we have a variety of Cedar that has bark that's easily as thick and furrowed as the locust in your photos, if not thicker. When they're young, they're nearly smooth.