These things have thorns

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AndyMA

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Ran into a few. Over 2 inches long

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Looks like a Locust. I have them all over the place. Not nice to tires either. I've herd there is a worse variety , Black Locust, so you may have that. I also have Cleveland Pears that have nasty thorns.
 
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When big enough they make good fenceposts though, which is what they were planted to produce years ago.
While native to the southern part of the US they are considered invasive in more northern regions... like here.
 
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Those are menacing looking! The red color makes it even worse I think. :laughing:
 
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Looks like a Locust. I have them all over the place. Not nice to tires either. I've herd there is a worse variety , Black Locust, so you may have that. I also have Cleveland Pears that have nasty thorns.

I think your right

See Honey locust - Wikipedia
 
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Indeed flesh rippers worse than thorn apples,if you watch close might see birds flying in and out from the nest early summer.
 
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Yep, Honey Locust! I've got plenty of them, cut & treat the stumps with Tordon RTU, the really thorny ones, if they aren't in the way, I cut a groove around the trunk through the bark & squirt the Tordon into the groove to kill them.

Black Locust are the post Locusts, we use hedge (Osage Orange) for posts around here!
 
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Looks like a Locust. I have them all over the place. Not nice to tires either. I've herd there is a worse variety , Black Locust, so you may have that. I also have Cleveland Pears that have nasty thorns.

Black locust has short twin thorns on the main stems, where the honey locust will have large multi fork thorns that can exceed over a foot long. Also the Honey locust thorns will be covered with a bacteria that can cause severe infections if they puncture the skin.
 
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I've got some honey locust trees in my lower pasture. They are the bane of my existence. If it's the last thing I accomplish on this earth, I'm gonna get rid of those evil things. The only problem is how to get rid of them without scattering their thorns all over the place.
 
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Black locust has short twin thorns on the main stems, where the honey locust will have large multi fork thorns that can exceed over a foot long. Also the Honey locust thorns will be covered with a bacteria that can cause severe infections if they puncture the skin.

Randy
Is it a bacteria or a oil on the thorn. Neighbor has honey locust and I get sprouts . If thorn gets in my finger I get rash that disappears within day of removing thorn.
 

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