I'm all good with it, you have choices that make it look like a softwood, I totally get it. That being said it does produce a lot of large coals, and the wetter it is the bigger they are which does in turn become ash. It's an easy wood to harvest typically in the woods, it grows tall with very few branches, then dies out so it can go from the wood to the stove in the coldest part of the season which means I bypass stacking itI'm not convinced that getting your wood wet () is necessarily a bad thing at this point. Kinda like if you wash your hands 50 times a day, look how dry they end up. Granted, if it stays wet absolutely all the way through to burning season, it prolly won't be very good, but as long as you get some drier weather for a month or two of summer I imagine you'll be ok. You should ask @KiwiBro about his river-drenching-wood-drying-leaching-out-the-moisture theory.
As for the black locust, I'm about to give mine away (@chipper might go into conniptions). The BTUs are there but I haven't come across an ashier wood. It might just be the local growing conditions for that particular species, but leaping lizards it makes a mess.
. It give me a reason to get off my but in those dreary winter days and to do something as well which is good for me 
. As with most everything we see in this thread and any other, what works great for many or some may not work well for others.
Be sure you bring that locust by @U&A place
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