[at-l] wood

[Felix J]

Thomas Fort wrote:

>Two things here ...
>
>1) the locust trees we have down here have thorns on them that would
>kill a small deer!  They can grow 3-4 inches long and 1/4 inch thick.
>The entire bark, limbs included, is covered with them.  As you get
>closer to the ground, on the trunk, the needles cluster in groups of
>10-12.  I wouldn't get close to a locust log!  
>

Those are Honeylocusts. Worse than sleepin' with a roll of barbed-wire. 
The fence post locust is the Black Locust. Twice as hard as steel (there 
is no proof of this being true. It's just something I said.). The 
blossoms are very aromatic (three times as aromatic as steel). 

>
>2) Nothing makes better fenceposts than the Bois d'arc, pronounced
>bodock. Just last week I had to knock down a few that were placed in the
>ground 43 yrs ago.  They were as strong as the day cut.  Took a
>bulldozer to wreck them!     I nice yellow color, tho!!  
>
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I'm not making a fence post, or anything else, out of something named 
'Bois d'arc'.....(to me, it looks like it's pronounce 'Boys Dark')