Strange Wood type

[FIVEBYFIVE]

I was called by a cousin and told the tree trimmers who work for Duke Power was working on their rd, so i went and got me some firewood for next year. I grabbed this one piece and a sharp pain come over me. What type of tree has thorns growing off of it? 6" long thorns. Would have taken a pic, but the wood splitter had other ideas.



P.S. I knocked off the thorns b4 splitting. It was a harder wood.

 

[walnutjerry]

Sounds like it may be locust. Did it have bean pods on it? 6" sounds a little long for locust thorns.

Jerry

 

[scsmith42]

Mesquite has thorns also, but you usually don't find it around here...

 

[jeff...]

Yep locust... did the heart wood look like this?

http://www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/showgallery.php?cat=966

Strange question but if you have a black light - shine it on the heart wood if it glows in the dark it's black locust if not it's more than likely honey locust.
The black light is the only way I know to tell the two apart that and black locust oozes a yellow green goo when you cut it.

Thanks

 

[DaveO]

If it's Honey Locust (Gleditsia tricanthos) it will have long three pronged thorns (tri = three, canthos = thorn).
If it is Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) it will have much shorter thorns and a much darker bark.
Both with have bean-pod like seed pods. Black's will be much thicker, than Honey.
Dave

 

[jeff...]

If it's Honey Locust (Gleditsia tricanthos) it will have long three pronged thorns (tri = three, canthos = thorn).
If it is Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) it will have much shorter thorns and a much darker bark.
Both with have bean-pod like seed pods. Black's will be much thicker, than Honey.
Dave

Dave when's the book hitting the publisher? Geeze this guy is smart :bcool:

 

[Kyle]

Yep locust... did the heart wood look like this?

http://www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/showgallery.php?cat=966

Strange question but if you have a black light - shine it on the heart wood if it glows in the dark it's black locust if not it's more than likely honey locust.
The black light is the only way I know to tell the two apart that and black locust oozes a yellow green goo when you cut it.

Thanks

the honey locust has clusters of thorns and the black locust has long singular thorns.

 

[Kyle]

just saw daves response..oops..

 

[Gofor]

Osage Orange has long sharp thorns also.

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