bower4311
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Is black locust worth anything more than firewood? Has anyone ever sold black locust logs whole? Will mills buy them for anything?
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Is black locust worth anything more than firewood? Has anyone ever sold black locust logs whole? Will mills buy them for anything?
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I make mallet heads out of it using my lathe. Good density and easy to turn:
The handle was walnut. This carver's mallet is one of my favorites:
I have never understood how locust can grow so fast and be so dense at the same time. In these two respects, no other species of wood in the entire world can match it.
That's some nice work :thumbup:
Anyone know if it ever sells by the log load? I might call around to some local mills.
I make mallet heads out of it using my lathe. Good density and easy to turn:
I have never understood how locust can grow so fast and be so dense at the same time. In these two respects, no other species of wood in the entire world can match it.
I am amazed! From what I see in the posts and firewood I have cut, B. locust checks and cracks so badly as I dries I didn't think one could make a finished product out of it. Even the old posts and beams I have run into are all rough sawn.
Harry K
Anyone know if it ever sells by the log load? I might call around to some local mills.
Everyone I seem to meet thinks it even sucks as firewood; so I agree with them and take it off their hands or salvage it from the local landfill in truckloads... :msp_wink: .. must've come across at least 10 cord easily in the last 2-3 years..
Black Locust = Black Gold ! Really like the woodworking pictures attached up there too. I use it here for lawnscaping borders and for standing stuff on [bird bath, lawn globe, stuff like that]; and my son kicks a large branch I stuck in the ground for his TKD kicking routines. And it's the majority of my firewood as well, at least 60-65% is all Black Locust.
Around here you'd get a field full of autumn olive overgrown with oriental bittersweet and Japanese stiltgrass. And multiflora rose and wine berries. They wine berries can stay - love those little buggers.Here's how to grow black locust: Clear a field for crops and try to keep it out. You will be guaranteed to see fantastic growth and multiplication!
...almost as dense as oak.
So do I for the most part. The oak species vary considerably in heat content. Density usually generates more BTU/lb than anything else. Some live oaks growing in the South are so dense that they sink in water. They are also very slow growing.There may be regional differences in density, but around here BL is way better firewood than Oak. Most of the BTU charts I've seen seem to agree...
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