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Nasty honey locust
HH~:
I like chewing on the sticky bean pods!
HH~
BowEd:
On some the limbs themselves way up in the tree are clustered up with thorns not just up the trunk a ways.Needless to say we never treed very many coon in trees like this but did occasionally.I always worried about the dogs up on the tree treeing getting cut up with their front feet.
Our deer love the pods too.They spread this tree all over the place.
Every year I slash with corn knife and burn with tordon many around here.
BowEd:
Hawk...Our black locust here does'nt have the thorns.Male or female.It's better bow wood too.
There are honey locust trees without thorns though too.I believe those are males.Females got the pods and thorns.Big thorny ones go though the wood stove over here.Good fire wood.
PaulN/KS:
--- Quote from: BowEd on April 16, 2020, 12:12:22 pm ---You ai'nt a kiddin Paul.I got one into my knee cap once from keeling onto the ground.Swelled up very quickly with a fair amount of pain to boot.
I had one go through a gum boot into my foot once too.
Through your hand......yikes that had to hurt.Did they give you antibiotics?If so what was it?Maybe chephalexin?
--- End quote ---
They gave me a tetnus shot and another shot of some kind of antibiotic,(think that was in a square needle.. (A)) plus pills. Puncture wounds can be troublesome, both to clean and keep from infection, so the extra antibiotics were likely because of that. I was lucky in that the thorn slipped between anything vital in my hand like nerves or tendons. Can't hardly see a scar ...
Eric Krewson:
The thorns up close;
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