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| Our last jar of 2024 apple sauce |
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| If you think ahead you can lay down some supports to keep the log off the ground. That makes it easier to buck-up into more manageable lengths. |
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| 48" lengths |
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| Looking up the log from the butt-end. Please don't tell Mrs ERJ that I am posting pictures of butts on the internet. |
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| Diameter at the 8' mark |
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| Diameter at the 16' mark |
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| Diameter at the 24' mark. A major side-branch left the main stem shortly below this point. |
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| Diameter at the 32' mark. |
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| Three dead, standing trees circled in red. They will have to wait. |
That is slow growing and looks nice. Is it good for making handles particularly for things like knives and other kitchen tools? ---ken
ReplyDeleteEncyclopedias from the 1930s specified Black Locust wood as the preferred source of shampoo to be used on anti-social people. The shampoo had a very rapid and long-lasting therapeutic window.
DeleteThat is, Black Locust was the preferred wood for police and prison guard billy-clubs. The reason given was that billy-clubs made of Black Locust lasted a very long time, even when used to "slap" the bars of prison cells. The "slapping" is best visualized as a playing card that hits the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
Guards did this several times a day. A bar that was partially sawn through made a different sound than one that was not compromised.
As you can guess, getting slapped against steel bars thousands of times a day destroys the billy clubs very quickly unless the wood is exceptionally hard and shock resistant.
They lasted even longer when only used for shampoos.
Do you re-use the canning lids from year to year, or consider those single-use?
ReplyDeleteThe wise and beautiful Mrs ERJ will not let me use them multiple times....yet. She acknowledges that a time might come when it makes sense to do that.
DeleteFor now, we treat them as single-use.