Warrior if I could only say they are uncommon and short lived.

If you don't spray the stump after cutting you will have a whole herd of them. They sucker bad. I have plenty of seed for those wanting some.

They make good foot guides too. Have a couple sets out now with those limbs as stepping sticks.

Nasty

It is a honey locust they are bad on tractor tires.

That is certainly a Honey Locust. I have burned a bunch of it. It is stringy and kind of hard to split but it makes a lot of heat. I had on tennis shoes and stepped on one of the thorns. It hurts a lot worse than stepping on a nail.

yep

locust, we have honey and black. I kill them all

Thorn tree we call them some sort of locust . That’s the tree that is always in the best spot for a deer stand lol

Honey locust and you don't want it.

Wood is dense and a big one like that does make good firewood. Lay it down, then go up the trunk with a 5 gallon bucket, heavy leather gloves and a kids axe or hatchet and trim all those thorns off. Not as big a job as it sounds like. Thorns peter out once you get past the trunk up into the crown. Transfer thorns from bucket into a paper feed sack and burn em.

Option B......is to girdle the tree with a chain saw, then when you know it is deader than dead, and safe to do so, douse the trunk with diesel fuel and burn it in place standing.

Never saw one of those here in western Pa. Something you’re not likely to miss.

Mammoths probably only ate the leaves and upper tender stuff.........seems like the thorns were to ward off animals climbing them? Amazing how a tree thought to adapt thorns for protection, almost like a bit of intelligence going on? Its crazy when you think about it.

Leaves huge amounts of ash, but, makes excellent firewood.

A lot of deer stands in Ohio, including mine, are intentionally put near honey locusts trees. The deer will dig down through snow to eat the pods. The grass under the productive trees stays knocked down and torn up. The deer spread the seeds all over in their feces.

Honey locust trees get big here. I have many over 40 inches in diameter, that I would like to cut into lumber.

Keith

How far north will they grow?

Most of the Mississippi and Ohio river drainages as far north as Iowa. Stops short of Minn.

I believe the limiting factor this far south is disease and pest thanks to our humidity and heat.

Those thorns HURT and will reach out and grab you if you do anything near that tree.

Deer LOVE the pods.

It's not a chokecherry tree but you might get a post saying it is. I never seen anything like that in my life.

They're a good forage tree for cattle and wildlife like deer, they're still full of nasty thorns.

Thank you, Bob. I might have to see if I can get a few to grow up here.