Hi Chris, just a note on wood density. Honey locust= 670 kg/ cubic metre (dry) Kanuka (NZ native)757 kg/cubic metre (dry) Puriri (NZ native)1105kg/cubic metre (dry). I've burnt all of these and they are exceptional. They are also getting rare,so pine's fine by me. Cheers from HB NZ. Good video again, thanks mate.
I run into some month ago. Free said was spruce. I didn’t know what was till week ago. Definitely a score in my area of cotton wood and pine. I hear good smoker wood. Going to try some this weekend. Nice work.
Good Morning Chris 🌞 it is a beautiful day here in New Hampshire and Maine and I am going to go out on my Yamaha wolverine side-by-side today and go up and fish some mountains streams and ponds for native Brooktrout love it. I know it’s going to be a good day low humidity and in the mid 70s.
Amazing content as usual Chris!! Quick question: the honey locust doesn't have thorns on it? Some of them very huge, but I saw none here. This is Gleditsia triacanthos, right?
Not this variety. A lot of locust does have thorns but this is a ornamental variety that many people have in there yards. I have one exactly like it too. No thorns or seed pods.
@@InTheWoodyard thanks for the info Chris, I went and read some of this and its true, some of them doesnt have thorns! It would have been nice and saved me a lot of time last week when I found some for cutting 😅
Nice video Chris. Working with honey locust will for sure make a man out of you and test your saw and chains. I have noodled lots of it. Hybrid yard trees are thornless usually, but so heavy. A new chain with factory rakers helps cut down the chatter. I use a couple of half rounds (laying flat) to stack the rounds on while noodling to keep from hitting the ground. Worth the effort, my little shop stove will burn all morning with just one charge of the stuff. GNI
I had to look up the differences in honey locust and black locust because we don't have honey locust where I live. Black locust grows all over the place. We never had to buy fence post, we just harvested black locust that were around 5" in diameter which usually resulted in 2-3 posts. We used locust for firewood but oddly very few of our neighbors did. We mixed it in with our wood for making maple syrup too. You just had to be careful how much you used or you could warp your pan.
I lost a bet on locust tree ID years ago. I looked it up in my trees of Missouri book. The honey locust has a thin bark, dark heartwood and the long thorns that start out green and turn reddish black . They will be really sore if you get poked close to a joint. The black locust has a honey colored heartwood , thorns are usually very short and only on the branches, and I have found the bark can get up to 2 inches thick. This wood was reportedly used a lot for pegs in post frame barns because the wood doesn’t shrink as it dries. I like to learn about trees so feel free give opinions if you have different ideas.
There are several varieties for sure, this was a ornamental yard tree from a nursery and I have one exactly like it in my yard...no thorns no seed pods, I believe it was called a "skyline locust" when I bought it years ago...nice yard tree.
Man, this is deja vu for real from last year. Huge honey locust, some rounds I noodled into 8 pieces but with a 572XP G. That was one of the days that led me to buy a splitter with a log lift. 😅 Both the bark and the flesh are unforgiving. A little scratch from honey locust can go deep!
Locust is great wood. It usually not that big here. We have mostly black locust and not much honey locust. The honey locust has the big thorns? I cut out a fence row once that was full of honey locust. got 2 flat tires from the thorns.
Good video. Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦! A respectful question for you. Do you have any local sawmill guys close by? I don’t have a good feel for the price of wood, but it seems to me like some of these huge hardwood logs would be worth quite a bit more as live edge slabs than they are cut down for firewood. I would have thought that you could just flip them for a profit when you come across them? Seems like a waste.
Chris, I wondered if that Honey locust makes you want to fry up some pancakes hahaha. You should have invited Ken down. He would sharpen those sods with that file. You would have no trouble hahaha. Thanks for the video Kenny from Western North Carolina
Impressive. Locust envy here. .😢How the H do you keep the chain so sharp with all the double/triple noodles and big butts ? That stuff is one tough wood.
Honey locust trees in my area have big clusters of thorns on them 3 to 6 inches long. They are not worth cutting, too much work to remove all the thorns and risk of getting hurt and flat tires. Are they different in Wisconsin or a different species people call the same thing?
The honey locust in our area has the thorns up and down the trunk and the black locust has small thorns on young trees. I think what he is cutting is the hybrid thornless tree which are meant for residential areas.
There are 2 different varieties of Honey Locust. One has huge thorns, and the other doesn't. They can cross pollinate, and a thornless tree offspring can have thorns. If they have the thorns. I always "ring them" or cut an inch deep all the way around the base of the tree. The thorns will all fall off dead over the next year before tree removal. It is all excellent firewood!🔥
As everything ....it depends....how thin are the splits, is it stored loose or stacked, in the open for wind and sun to hit it or under a lot of shade from big trees, on top of a hill for lots of air flow or in a swamp edge with lots of brush and trees to keep the air from moving, dry area of the country like Arizona or 99% wet like in the north west???? In my area the way I split and store wood.....6 months tops.
Is that black locust? The honey locust in our swamps have thin bark, loaded with spikes(giant thorns) and foot long bean pods the deer love . Maybe there’s different varieties. Fun chainsaw carnage.
One of those unicorn splitters on the end of skid steer and no noodling required. Also can use to drill into the middle of those big logs to pick up and cut rounds from the ends so no bending over
That sure was some heavy,dense wood. I do worry about you lifting large,& heavy pieces. However, knowing you are aware, you’ll be more careful. Very productive day, see you tomorrow.💯👍🏾😀🫶🏾💜✝️🙏🏾🇺🇸
You are sure gonna earn this half cord of wood! Some of the simplest variables in processing firewood can make some of the biggest changes in effort to get it done. We all find ourselves in tree removal projects that end up taking 3x the time and effort to produce a cord as others have. Yet...it all sells for basically the same amount. At the end of the day trees like this one will make a guy want to specialize in Soft Maple and Poplar!🤣
I think my idea of MASSIVE is a little different then yours. 880 and 3120 with 4' + bars would have be closer. A lot of honey locust cutting ,ok. Massive chainsaw cutting ? Over promised and under preformed on this one . I know you like the 24" bars. A 592xp sporting a 28" would make that at bigger wood go faster. Maybe I'm just lazy , looking for the easy way to get the job done. If your going to "noodle" rounds the WCS cover has more room. Keeping one saw with the rakers a little higher should cut down in the chatter. A bad cutting chain will wear you and the saw out fast. Smooth is fast and fast is smooth , as the saying goes.
We have 2- 3120 Husqvarnas one has a 42" bar and the other a 60" .404 chain an 592,395, 390, 3-572, 500i, and a bunch of smaller saws too...you might want to watch some of the other 1500 videos on my channel to see them. The tile and thumbnail are there to get you all to click and watch...it worked.
Just wondering why you Buck those right thru …why don’t you just rip into them a bit and then pop them in half with a wedge..am I missing something ? Looks like pretty good grain on the wood ..maybe you just like ripping …anyhow enjoy your videos ..cheers
Honey locust wait until you get into a hammer fur log . Try your arms and 592 XP out the smallest one ☝️ around is 5 foot 🦶 grown up to 15 feet around , own a short tree about regular height of 102 feet 🦶. 😊
If you had my money you would be living on a yacht in the Bahamas...ME, I like what I do and I have used many log lift machines over the years....I was not impressed, you have to wrestle the big round to it and then when the round splits in half it falls off the splitter and you have to start all over....They are slow and they are mostly used for a table and not much lifting. I cut firewood for exercise...more is better, less speeds up death.
Useless nerd Cliff info green Honey Locust is 61lbs per cubic foot or a 1 foot section of 26"dia weighs 225lbs or a 16" section of 26" should weigh roughly 300lbs or using a woodyard weight calculator Honey Locust is some heavy 💩😁. Hope you had fun at Adams folks woodyard sounds like a good time look forward to future video.
Good Morning Chris, Great Husky Show. Biscuits and Gravy Baby😂👏🪵👍🏼
Scrambled eggs and spam on a tortilla!! Biscuits and Gravy tomorrow ... fuel for the engine!!
Yup, good old fashioned stick to the ribs, I need to take a nap, loosen up the belt and a shot of insulin food!
yup!
Hi Chris, just a note on wood density. Honey locust= 670 kg/ cubic metre (dry)
Kanuka (NZ native)757 kg/cubic metre (dry)
Puriri (NZ native)1105kg/cubic metre (dry).
I've burnt all of these and they are exceptional. They are also getting rare,so pine's fine by me. Cheers from HB NZ. Good video again, thanks mate.
Thanks for the info! Very interesting! You have some REAL heavy wood down there! Cool!
Nice cutting. I think firewood is more workout than I get. I remember back in the day helping Dad get firewood. Tough job.
Yup, it is a lot of work and I LOVE it!
I run into some month ago. Free said was spruce. I didn’t know what was till week ago. Definitely a score in my area of cotton wood and pine. I hear good smoker wood. Going to try some this weekend. Nice work.
That is awesome!
Great content. Honey locust is very heavy. It dries fast and splits great
Yes it does!
Good Morning Chris 🌞 it is a beautiful day here in New Hampshire and Maine and I am going to go out on my Yamaha wolverine side-by-side today and go up and fish some mountains streams and ponds for native Brooktrout love it. I know it’s going to be a good day low humidity and in the mid 70s.
Awesome, now that sounds like a great day! Catch the big one!
New tires on the truck? Looks good.
Last fall yup, BF GOODRICH KO2 tires again!
Amazing content as usual Chris!!
Quick question: the honey locust doesn't have thorns on it? Some of them very huge, but I saw none here.
This is Gleditsia triacanthos, right?
Not this variety. A lot of locust does have thorns but this is a ornamental variety that many people have in there yards. I have one exactly like it too. No thorns or seed pods.
@@InTheWoodyard thanks for the info Chris, I went and read some of this and its true, some of them doesnt have thorns! It would have been nice and saved me a lot of time last week when I found some for cutting 😅
Nice video Chris. Working with honey locust will for sure make a man out of you and test your saw and chains. I have noodled lots of it. Hybrid yard trees are thornless usually, but so heavy. A new chain with factory rakers helps cut down the chatter. I use a couple of half rounds (laying flat) to stack the rounds on while noodling to keep from hitting the ground. Worth the effort, my little shop stove will burn all morning with just one charge of the stuff. GNI
Yup, it is good wood!
Good morning Chris!!😀😀
Nice job buddy!!😀😀👍👍
Morning! Thanks Al!
I had to look up the differences in honey locust and black locust because we don't have honey locust where I live. Black locust grows all over the place. We never had to buy fence post, we just harvested black locust that were around 5" in diameter which usually resulted in 2-3 posts. We used locust for firewood but oddly very few of our neighbors did. We mixed it in with our wood for making maple syrup too. You just had to be careful how much you used or you could warp your pan.
Yup, all locust is very hot burning wood!
I lost a bet on locust tree ID years ago. I looked it up in my trees of Missouri book. The honey locust has a thin bark, dark heartwood and the long thorns that start out green and turn reddish black . They will be really sore if you get poked close to a joint. The black locust has a honey colored heartwood , thorns are usually very short and only on the branches, and I have found the bark can get up to 2 inches thick. This wood was reportedly used a lot for pegs in post frame barns because the wood doesn’t shrink as it dries. I like to learn about trees so feel free give opinions if you have different ideas.
There are several varieties for sure, this was a ornamental yard tree from a nursery and I have one exactly like it in my yard...no thorns no seed pods, I believe it was called a "skyline locust" when I bought it years ago...nice yard tree.
Man, this is deja vu for real from last year. Huge honey locust, some rounds I noodled into 8 pieces but with a 572XP G. That was one of the days that led me to buy a splitter with a log lift. 😅 Both the bark and the flesh are unforgiving. A little scratch from honey locust can go deep!
Yup, it is great firewood!
Locust is great wood. It usually not that big here. We have mostly black locust and not much honey locust. The honey locust has the big thorns? I cut out a fence row once that was full of honey locust. got 2 flat tires from the thorns.
This honey locust was a yard tree..ornamental...no thorns.
Good video. Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦! A respectful question for you. Do you have any local sawmill guys close by? I don’t have a good feel for the price of wood, but it seems to me like some of these huge hardwood logs would be worth quite a bit more as live edge slabs than they are cut down for firewood. I would have thought that you could just flip them for a profit when you come across them? Seems like a waste.
Yes we do, the farm has a big saw mill but i sell firewood and do not need, want lumber or want to try and market and sell it.
Chris, I wondered if that Honey locust makes you want to fry up some pancakes hahaha.
You should have invited Ken down. He would sharpen those sods with that file. You would have no trouble hahaha. Thanks for the video Kenny from Western North Carolina
Next time! Thanks for watching!
Impressive. Locust envy here. .😢How the H do you keep the chain so sharp with all the double/triple noodles and big butts ? That stuff is one tough wood.
Yup, it is tough wood...Oregon stone 7/32 bit on a Dremel tool. I have lots of videos showing it in use, one just a couple days ago.
Nice work on the locust Chris. Another year, it would have been a bigger struggle.
Yes dry wood cuts harder!!
Honey locust trees in my area have big clusters of thorns on them 3 to 6 inches long. They are not worth cutting, too much work to remove all the thorns and risk of getting hurt and flat tires. Are they different in Wisconsin or a different species people call the same thing?
The thorns are on the smaller branches and young growth.
The honey locust in our area has the thorns up and down the trunk and the black locust has small thorns on young trees. I think what he is cutting is the hybrid thornless tree which are meant for residential areas.
There are 2 different varieties of Honey Locust. One has huge thorns, and the other doesn't. They can cross pollinate, and a thornless tree offspring can have thorns.
If they have the thorns. I always "ring them" or cut an inch deep all the way around the base of the tree. The thorns will all fall off dead over the next year before tree removal. It is all excellent firewood!🔥
We’re lucky in that the dozen honey locusts in our front yard don’t have thorns. But plenty at the in-laws’ farm have them!
I cut several honey locust all natural growth. 1 big one around 30" without a single thorn right next to it 1 covered 20ft up the trunk with thorns.
How long does it take locust to dry
As everything ....it depends....how thin are the splits, is it stored loose or stacked, in the open for wind and sun to hit it or under a lot of shade from big trees, on top of a hill for lots of air flow or in a swamp edge with lots of brush and trees to keep the air from moving, dry area of the country like Arizona or 99% wet like in the north west???? In my area the way I split and store wood.....6 months tops.
Will you be charging the same price for the honey locust as the hickory or oak?
Yup.
Chris,another awesome chainsaw project 👍😮😊❤
Glad you like it!
Nice work! 👍🏻👍🏻GNI
Thanks Sir Toddeth!
G’morning Chris. Heapage of carnage. Most best cutting. She cuts !!
GoodNightIrene
Yup, the 592 really shines on the locust and big nasty stuff!
well done champ. i know you've probably already done your road trip but be safe on those roads out there 👍
Thanks 👍
I've got a mix of black and honey locust.
I'm trying to identify the white powdery substance & what causes it .
Some kind of wood worms in it???
@@InTheWoodyard Thanks a million.
Locust splits easy with an axe or a maul. That's how I remember it when I was 25. Might not be so easy at my now 49yrs of age.
Yup, good wood!
Honey locust is wonderful wood for burning and woodturning (ie, bowl making). Get some if you can.
Yup, great wood!
I'm glad you decided to segregate your locust prised fire wood.
The saplings about 3 4 inches in diameter are highly prized fence post
Yup, it is great firewood and yes fence posts too!
Is that black locust? The honey locust in our swamps have thin bark, loaded with spikes(giant thorns) and foot long bean pods the deer love . Maybe there’s different varieties. Fun chainsaw carnage.
Yes it is honey locust our black locust is thin bark, lime green inside and thorns.
What Do You Do With All The Saw Dust ?
Some is used for chicken cops, some is burned and some is spread on the fields.
One of those unicorn splitters on the end of skid steer and no noodling required. Also can use to drill into the middle of those big logs to pick up and cut rounds from the ends so no bending over
Yup, we have a could skid steer splitters here , slow and awkward, but work great on the HUGE wood but noodling is faster.
Cut up large pieces of wood to keep the cut straight without an angle on wood. Or just a matter of having a sharp chain.
yup
Black locust? Looks like great firewood to me. Good job
Honey locust.
Go go go! Saw it up, mystyk bar oil good stuff!
More noodles than a top ramen factory there.
Thanks!
That sure was some heavy,dense wood. I do worry about you lifting large,& heavy pieces. However, knowing you are aware, you’ll be more careful. Very productive day, see you tomorrow.💯👍🏾😀🫶🏾💜✝️🙏🏾🇺🇸
Yup, it was heavy ...great exercise!
You are sure gonna earn this half cord of wood! Some of the simplest variables in processing firewood can make some of the biggest changes in effort to get it done. We all find ourselves in tree removal projects that end up taking 3x the time and effort to produce a cord as others have. Yet...it all sells for basically the same amount. At the end of the day trees like this one will make a guy want to specialize in Soft Maple and Poplar!🤣
Yup, especially yard trees from tree service ...lots of work most of the time.
Great video!! I now use an inverted splitter on my MT52 so i dont noodle mych anymore!! Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day
Nice, still gotta move them and wrestle them into place....I prefer noodling.
Awesome.
Thanks!
That stuff had those big saws chattering a little bit that is some dense wood
Yes, it sure is that!
Hi Chris its my Anniversary to day First of July 54 Years together again Love at First Sight ( Ty Ron Happy Canada everyone good video Chris
Nice! 54 is a good start!
Nice firewood. Keep splitting
Thanks, will do!
Back when I cut it I used A poulan 3409 I used to cut thorny locust
Great wood!
Yeah this is Kenny from Western North Carolina. I was just wondering if that honey locust is heavy?😂😂😂 I figured
Hello Kenny from Western North east southern central upper north North Carolina.....yup!
I think my idea of MASSIVE is a little different then yours. 880 and 3120 with 4' + bars would have be closer. A lot of honey locust cutting ,ok. Massive chainsaw cutting ? Over promised and under preformed on this one . I know you like the 24" bars. A 592xp sporting a 28" would make that at bigger wood go faster. Maybe I'm just lazy , looking for the easy way to get the job done. If your going to "noodle" rounds the WCS cover has more room. Keeping one saw with the rakers a little higher should cut down in the chatter. A bad cutting chain will wear you and the saw out fast. Smooth is fast and fast is smooth , as the saying goes.
You could search out a recent video he did with ported 592XP with WCS clutch cover or one of the Husky 3120 videos with a 60" bar.
We have 2- 3120 Husqvarnas one has a 42" bar and the other a 60" .404 chain an 592,395, 390, 3-572, 500i, and a bunch of smaller saws too...you might want to watch some of the other 1500 videos on my channel to see them. The tile and thumbnail are there to get you all to click and watch...it worked.
Yup, thanks!
@@InTheWoodyard And good quality content keeps me coming back.👍
Lots of ripping….😊
Road Trip😊
Yes it was!
👍👍👍
Thanks!!!
Just wondering why you Buck those right thru …why don’t you just rip into them a bit and then pop them in half with a wedge..am I missing something ? Looks like pretty good grain on the wood ..maybe you just like ripping …anyhow enjoy your videos ..cheers
The 93 cc saws are faster and easier.
Even the locust here is heavy, but ut seasons fast.
Yup, you are correct!
Good morning all!
Good morning!
The camera was a little too close to the wood. I got sawdust in my eyes.😳😳🙄
Yup, I put the cameras where you should not, those are the great shots!
👍🏻👏
Thanks.
Hello everyone and Tony
Hello Stanley!
Chris you file too much of your rake , the chainsaw jump around like a bull frog 🐸 in the pond . 😮
That is normal on honey locust but yes they where a little aggressive....the way i like it!
👍
Thanks!
I Would Loooooove A Few Of Those too Make Clocks out of ? !!!
To late it is all firewood now! Sorrry!
Have a honey locust in my yard and its not fun to walk around and its huge and next to my house half dead... Nit gonna be fun to cut lol
Better get it down before it hits the house!
Honey locust wait until you get into a hammer fur log . Try your arms and 592 XP out the smallest one ☝️ around is 5 foot 🦶 grown up to 15 feet around , own a short tree about regular height of 102 feet 🦶. 😊
Never heard of hammer fir??? Doug fir???
🤘
Thanks!
that poor 592 was dull before 7 min. by 10 it was dying....
Yup, that is some very hard wood and I just "might" have touched the ground too!
If I had your money I'd get a splitter with a log lift
If you had my money you would be living on a yacht in the Bahamas...ME, I like what I do and I have used many log lift machines over the years....I was not impressed, you have to wrestle the big round to it and then when the round splits in half it falls off the splitter and you have to start all over....They are slow and they are mostly used for a table and not much lifting. I cut firewood for exercise...more is better, less speeds up death.
@@InTheWoodyard I'll ask andrew for you to demo one
Happy Canada 🇨🇦 Day to all my fellow Canadians watching 😊
Have a good one!
My 592 always has a 28” bar on it. Works best for me. I keep a 24” on my 572 and 562
Yup, a 28" would be nice on it.
Useless nerd Cliff info green Honey Locust is 61lbs per cubic foot or a 1 foot section of 26"dia weighs 225lbs or a 16" section of 26" should weigh roughly 300lbs or using a woodyard weight calculator Honey Locust is some heavy 💩😁. Hope you had fun at Adams folks woodyard sounds like a good time look forward to future video.
Yup, locust is extreeeeeeemly heavy wood! Yup, big splitting video soon!
I think you are magic. You just go outside and poof a giant pile of wood.
Maybe so...but magic is hard work!
Good Morning Woodhounds!!
Hello Greg!