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Not to get on a black locust kick but it makes a dandy fence post .Not quite as good as osage but real close and usually a little straighter also .Plus you can drive a fence staple in it when it's dry .You can on osage too but you'd better use a sledge hammer to do it .

I had no idea that black locust grew that far westward .Next to osage or shagbark hickory most likely the highest btu's per volume firewood there is . This stuff is a slight more,shall we say user friendly than the afore mentioned hardwoods with regards to wearing out both the chainsaw chain...

Some of our eastern trees are much the same .Maple is pretty hefty when green .Cottonwood weighs a ton before it dries out as well as tulip poplar . Certain ones like ash or oak never really loose much weight as compared to others . Beech and osage orange loose a little but turns so hard you...

I've never even seen a redwood tree other than pictures .It would make sense though that a more mature tree would have less moisture in the heart wood than a young sapling. Considering a redwood lives for thousands of years a 21 year old tree would be a sapling .