Thorny Locust tree

[TerryinMD]

Can't attach a picture, musta been senior citizens moment!!! Look at these two URLS.

http://www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/ODNR/Education/ohiotrees/honeylocust.htm
http://www.domtar.com/arbre/english/p_feepi.htm



<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by TerryinMD on 08/27/01 11:53 AM (server time).</FONT></P>

 

[Jag]

Hillbilly, if you would email me your address I will send you a set of thorns... They are very impressive if you have never seen a set...These trees top out about 30-35 feet and have a long thin seed pod up to about 12 inches that looks light green or golden and then turns black... They have few limbs and do make good fence post, heard they will last about 6 months shorter than dirt, also good fire wood as the burn long, hot and leave little ash....

 

[Hillbilly]

I may do that.No chance of them reseeding eh? LOL, those sound like monster thorns to me,no wonder you do not want them around where you drive your tractor(or anything else with pneumatic tires)I bet they would be hard on bare feet.

Best regards Jag!!

 

[Anonymous Poster]

<font color=blue>I bet they would be hard on bare feet.</font color=blue>

I don't know about the feet but I once got jabbed pretty deep in the arm while brush cutting and within an hour my arm curled up with my finger tips touching my shoulder! Went to the ER for a tetnus shot, the doc was a city guy and had never seen a thorny locust thorn and asked me to bring one in for him to see. Hurt like the dickens.

PitbullMidwest

 

[JonLeonard]

A cousin of mine had one go completely through his foot. The are definately nasty, so use extreme caution around them.

 

[Richard]

Anyone know if they can be easily pushed over with backhoe?

I really don't like the idea of walking around there with "Mr. Stihl" to deal with the tree. If their root system is NOT like a cedar, I'd just as much want to back up to it and push it over, push them onto pile and flick my bick.

Richard

 

[BXmark]

I got 3 acres of the blasted things-- had to fill all my tractor tires and trailer tires-- everything pneumatic with Green Slime.
My friend steped on a thorn bare foot and it went through the cartliage on her big toe. The thorn are extremely hard. She had to have it surgically removed.

 

[TerryinMD]

I don't know if any of you looked into the URLs I posted, but they mentioned that the "oldtimers" used the thorns as nails!!!

Ouch /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

 

[Devildog]

Richard, We had plenty of locusts on our lot just pushed another one over last weekend, I will be cutting and splitting it this weekend, and as stated earlier they do make great firewood, When burning they put off awesome colors but pop a little, Just cut and split them while there green, cause if you let them season its like cutting petrified wood. They are also the trees that farmers like most for posts. They take forever to rot. Ours dont have thorns that big but when topping and chipping up the brush we definetly wear leather gloves. Hope this helps.
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Take care, Jim

1951 John Deere B (poppin johnny)
Semper Fidelis

 

[WoodDawg]

I can see how people used the thorns as nails. Here is a pic of one I pulled out of my tire. Lucky it was the little thorn on the side and not the long part that stuck in my tire.
Mark