Black Locust

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Exactly.   :D

I can see you going to your shop, making a Cherry "tongue and groove" feed trough for a pretty Nanny.  :D

[WDH]

That is what you end up doing if you mess with goats  .

[Migal]

  send me a few sticks I would love a chance for those black babies' green is a key word it will cut fine just start out slow and get the feel keep your blade clean you will love the wood it last forever! untreated!

[Chuck White]

I think you could get a box of "assorted hook" blades from Wood-Mizer!

Doesn't cost to call and ask!

Of course, if you send them in for resharp, they would have to be marked as to what hook they are.

[loggah]

Ive cut a bunch on my BELSAW and didn't break a single blade!! :D :D all joking aside its hard and heavy,i was cutting 7"x 9" x8' timbers and 5"x9"x10' for skis for some logging sleds, it is hard ,and has a real fine sawdust,but worst of all is its Heavy!!!!!! The stuff takes forever to rot which is a reason i was making sleds out of it  , the stuff dont like skilsaws, holesaws or most drills. ;D Don

[Larry]

I have a custom job coming up to saw some that has been down for a few years.  Think it will be hard? :D :D  The TK can handle it.

[hackberry jake]

I have been cutting bodark today. It kinda reminds me of locust.

[jimparamedic]

Once it's off the root ball it starts to get harder alot of mineral grow up in the tree and I have found rocks 3 to 4 feet off the ground with the tree growing around the rock. My circular mill screems when cutting log that are 2-3 weeks old. Now it is a pretty wood and wears well for moving part. It will wear harden just like steel.

[Okrafarmer]

I've milled a little locust, but not yet with the LT-40.

David, if somebody volunteered to off-bear, you need to say yes, and invite a chiropractor to come watch and sip lemonade between adjustments. 

The key thing, I think, is to start the day with a whole box of sharp blades.

In the mountains of South Carolina, the locust trees can grow up to 30" or so and are typically not hollow. Make sure your debarker is in good working order, especially if there's any reason to think the bark may have gotten dirty. (oh let's see, it fell down on the ground, right?) The bark is rather thick, kind of like walnut bark.

In fact, along with a box of sharp blades, you might want a box full of fresh off-bearers. And I'm not kidding about the chiropractor. Tell him to bring his treatment bed and all.

The locust I've cut looks like beautiful chocolaty walnut at first, but it fades (or oxidizes) very quickly into this zinc chromium color, kind of like lime gatorade.

Black locust makes good fence posts because it is very rot resistant.

He who tries to pound fence staples into black locust posts shall hurt himself trying. Don't ask me how I know that.  ;D

[Migal]

 :D He who tries to pound fence staples into black locust posts shall hurt himself trying. Don't ask me how I know that. 

thats why its important to do it while green and bleeding so you don't bleed and look green lol

[hackberry jake]

I think I would rather mill locust or bodark than hickory or even pine. It seems less springy and if I run a band with little set like 15 thou or so. It cuts straight as an arrow even through knots. Sometimes with hickory or pine, no matter what I do I get slight variation around knots.