Milling black locust

[raycon]

Looking at milling 10-20 logs 18" dbh 16' in length or less.
(On  a woodmizer) 10 degree double hards blade a good choice?
Majority of the lumber will be used for a sailboat restoration project. Any words of advice on milling the black locust or what to expect?

Thanks
Ray

[sawyerkirk]

Make sure you have plenty of blades! We saw quite a bit of black locust, We save te logs back until we need some big timbers so we don't have to make to many cuts.

[Norm]

It sure is hard wood, the bark seems to dull blades fast too. We cut some for posts and the smaller trees had quite a bit of tension in em. On the bigger ones I cut 4/4 and boxed the heart for posts. It really is pretty wood and I'm going to try making flooring out of the 4/4 stuff.