I have a silvermaple in the yard next to me when I go out today ill snap a pic
Is this black locust?
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It's honey locust
.The locust around here is almost 100% rot-proof.
During a BIG ice storm on Superbowl Sunday, 1979,, the ice took down almost all the large locusts.
I bought a property with wooded land about 4 years later,, then about 1986, I was cutting that locust for firewood.
The wood was 100% solid even after being down that long,,
AND ,, my neighbor was going NUTS because I was not using the wood for fence posts!!
That wood burned like anthracite coal,, with a pretty blue flame,,
I did try some for fence posts,, I could not drive a staple in that wood.
If I would have had a cordless drill, maybe I could have pre-drilled holes for the staples??
During a BIG ice storm on Superbowl Sunday, 1979,, the ice took down almost all the large locusts.
I bought a property with wooded land about 4 years later,, then about 1986, I was cutting that locust for firewood.
The wood was 100% solid even after being down that long,,
AND ,, my neighbor was going NUTS because I was not using the wood for fence posts!!
That wood burned like anthracite coal,, with a pretty blue flame,,
I did try some for fence posts,, I could not drive a staple in that wood.
If I would have had a cordless drill, maybe I could have pre-drilled holes for the staples??
I will bet anyone it is.It's honey locust
Is honey locust the one with the long stem with a ton of tiny leaves on it that turn yellow and get tracked into the house in fall?
Yes.
Edit, also them/and the black locust are the first to start dropping leaves in the fall.
I think so. IDK about the tracking though.
The locust we had in our front yard didn't have thorns. But the bark was smooth once it was above the trunk and intothe limbs. Pretty big tree maybe 16-18" diameter, there was a bigger one next door that had dark rough bark, same type of leaves but easily 3' diameter
When you cut a locust around here (or have the wind knock it down) wherever a branch stabs into the ground, a new locust tree will grow.
A friend at work wanted to put up a basketball hoop for his son.
He went to his father's farm, cut a locust, stripped all the bark, and stuck it in the ground, with the hoop bolted on.
Two years later, that locust post started to put out leaves,, then within five years, it had branches,,
When I saw the thing, it was a full grown locust tree,, next to his driveway,, that was after 20 years.
The post regrew all of its bark,,
A friend at work wanted to put up a basketball hoop for his son.
He went to his father's farm, cut a locust, stripped all the bark, and stuck it in the ground, with the hoop bolted on.
Two years later, that locust post started to put out leaves,, then within five years, it had branches,,
When I saw the thing, it was a full grown locust tree,, next to his driveway,, that was after 20 years.
The post regrew all of its bark,,
The chunk on the bottom/back of the trailer next to the crotchety one shows a sap ring of a few inches... that tells me it is Honey Locust . Coffee Bean lumber gets hard to separate from Honey Locust lumber when fresh sawn. Leaves help a lot to identify but logs in the mill yard for some reason are leafless as well as Lifeless. I seldom see a sap ring in silver maple but there is heart wood and another story.
Here's the maple next door. Not many locust in my area so I'm no pro at identifying locust except when I see the foliage. The bark dies seem similar but I would side with the guys that cut on a more frequent basis.
Its Honey Locust I'm telling you!
That is silver maple all day long in the pic. On the trailer Im with wolf that looks like honey locust. Any branches from this honey locust.?
Looks like one on the trailer zoom in.
Late last summer I dead limbed and pruned a pretty good sized honey, I was up in that thing for what seemed like hrs. They have a million branches and the canopy can be so dense all the undergrowth does out, what a mess they are. The client had initially talked about having me remove it a few summers ago when I removed a handful of pine on the property line, then they decided they could live with the mess because it's their primary shade
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Was just in town and snapped a couple pictures for you guys.
Honey locust.
@Brufab , look at the branch structure and you can easily see the difference between this and silver maple.
As you said, on some the bark can be similar, like the one in this picture; others the bark shows fissures that look much like the grain will look, more like many species of elm look, and their wood has a similar nasty twisted grain like honey locust
Honey locust.
@Brufab , look at the branch structure and you can easily see the difference between this and silver maple.
As you said, on some the bark can be similar, like the one in this picture; others the bark shows fissures that look much like the grain will look, more like many species of elm look, and their wood has a similar nasty twisted grain like honey locust
That looks like my neighbors tree when I lived in Detroit. But smaller. Ours has a smoother bark. Nice recon work soldier!
Do we know if all the wood on trailer is from 1 tree?
We must of had a thornless honey locust tree in our yard. Based on leaf/stem structure and seed pods along with how they can grow without thorns
