Picked up a little black locust

[DLH]

Picked up some black locust today anywhere from 12-20in diameter. Has some fat late growth rings (from what I can tell anyways) have quite a bit to split and remove bark and sapwood. Looks straight for the most part but I'm sure I will find out when I get to split it. Only have this one picture for now may try to get some more up later. I could definitely tell I had a load behind the truck this was being sold by the pound to be chipped up I think this does it more justice or atleast gives it a chance. When removing the sapwood should I be careful around the pins knots or can I rip through the sapwood pins until I get to the heartwood?



Thanks,

Daniel

[lebhuntfish]

That's a nice haul buddy. I think you should be able to get one maybe two bows out of those! If you need some help with those, I could take one off your hands! I would love to try some black locust. Let me know if you want to get rid of any of those. Not sure about the pin knots I have never done that myself, I would like to know myself. Fixing to get a load of Osage soon.   Patrick.

[huisme]

Have fun peeling the bark!

[Pat B]

You have to be careful around the knots just like with most other bow woods. Be ready to seal the back as soon as you remove the bark and sapwood.

[zenart]

A 'little'… "you're killing me Larry".  I would soooo love to have little of dat!

[osage outlaw]

Nice haul Daniel!  You have a thing for BL don't you   

[TRACY]

Nice haul Daniel! Yeah, it'll want to tear out around the bigger knots. Those staves I worked on last weekend still had the sapwood and were a bear to clean off. If you can, peel and seal now, it'll be worth it later.


Tracy

[DLH]

Yeah I like it cause it's plentiful in my area the osage I have seen is either north or south of me or on government land which they frown upon if you cut it plus I didn't have any nice straight locust. It took me all day yesterday nothing went as planned my dad and I about slipped a gonad trying to get a oak log off the truck that came from my university at the mill. Tracy it looked like that sapwood was giving you a tough time last weekend I'll try and remove it soon but this will be a pretty long project.

[TRACY]

You'll slip the other gonad trying to remove all the sapwood a year from now Peel them out here and there over the next month and you should have a real good stash built up when you're done


Tracy

[Wiley]

Makes me sore just looking at it. Have fun on that project, it'll be worth it in the end though. Pretty good haul, hope you get a lot of good staves out of it.

[Gsulfridge]

Nice haul!

[Joec123able]

That's a nice haul buddy. I think you should be able to get one maybe two bows out of those! If you need some help with those, I could take one off your hands! I would love to try some black locust. Let me know if you want to get rid of any of those. Not sure about the pin knots I have never done that myself, I would like to know myself. Fixing to get a load of Osage soon.   Patrick.

Lol I busted out laughing at the " one maybe two bows out of those!"

[lebhuntfish]

That was the idea Joec123able, thought it was pretty funny myself!

[Danzn Bar]

Boy ........I can just see Daniel with a sledge and some wedges in his hands    .......... His a stave splitting machine. 
Got your work cut out for ya there...............
DBar

[DGF]

Holy heck Daniel, nice haul!

-Dan