The old timers were right g-goat. It's the silica in soil that throws the sparks. And it's not just in locust, other trees take it up in their sap. We have mountain locust growing here, as someone said. 'it'll burn the side out of cast iron woodstove'. I've heard the same thing repeated here by some old timers. They won't burn the locust for that reason.
I think about the hardest native trees we have are persimmon, if you can find one. The wood inside the sapwood of a persimmon looks like ebony. The Japanese opened a plant here to process the persimmon into golf club heads, with a duplicating machine. They bought up all the big persimmon they could get from The Blue Ridge Mtns. From across North and South Carolina all the way to Georgia. They closed the plant when the local supply of wood ran out and took it to Ark. if I remember correctly.
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Today's Featured Article - Third Brush Generators - by Chris Pratt. While I love straightening sheet metal, cleaning, and painting old tractors, I use every excuse to avoid working on the on the electrics. I find the whole process sheer mystery. I have picked up and attempted to read every auto and farm electrics book with no improvement in the situation. They all seem to start with a chapter entitled "Theory of Electricity". After a few paragraphs I usually close the book and go back to banging out dents. A good friend and I were recently discussing our tractor electrical systems when he stated "I figure it all comes back to applying Ohms Law". At this point
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