Make money off the damn things.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/210771878/24-large-honey-locust-thorns-large
Holy crap! I'm sitting on a million bucks in one tree alone with some 4"!!! Just hit the lotto!
(for the record, I wouldn't mess with it)
Make money off the damn things.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/210771878/24-large-honey-locust-thorns-large
Thanks for the tip.Have a lot of them on one place. Since the limbs are low growing, I take the tractor with front loader and lift up the limbs while putting forward pressure on the trunk and then cut with the saw sometimes on the knees. Treat the stump with Tordon RTU.
https://herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/bol/plants400/profiles/GH/GleditsiaThe heavily-armed honey locust trunks, with their woody thorns up to 40 cm long, have led to speculation why there should be so much investment in protection, when the herbivores that might find the tree appetizing today are not deterred by them. One suggestion is that honey locust evolved in an environment where browsing herbivores larger than deer were common. Large mammals (megafauna) roamed the Americas for twenty million years but approximately twelve millennia ago, at the close of the Pleistocene, they went extinct. The well-armed trunks and branches may have evolved as protection against browsing megafauna and the thorns we see today are merely remnants of a once important evolutionary strategy.
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