[at-l] Oak tree you're in my way...

[Amy Skowronek]

On Dec 4, 2006, at 8:24 AM, Felix J wrote:

> Jim Bullard wrote:
>
>> Nope! The best is locust.
>
>
> Locust is too hard to split and is 'stringy'. And, not as plentiful as
> oak. It IS a hot heat, though. Beech is a good, long-burning, high- 
> heat
> wood, too. Generally knotty and on the 'hard-to-split' side, though.

There is no way I'd use locust for firewood, when there are fences to  
be made.  Locust is the *best* fencepost wood.  It lasts for fricking  
ever.  We had some locust corner posts in some outbuildings, and when  
the buildings died after 100 or so years, the posts were still  
solid.  They had softened up a tad right at ground level, but we  
still couldn't chop through them with an ax or cut them with a saw.   
We ended up digging them out.

-amy