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This guy maintains lawns for a living and he found a cool honey locust thorn. Doesn’t matter how good your gloves are, those bitches sting.

This guy maintains lawns for a living and he found a cool honey locust thorn. Doesn’t matter how good your gloves are, those bitches sting.

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[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

It's a big thorn, but it isn't very sharp. Mesquite thorns are way worse than that.

[–] • 2 pts

Looks like it might be from the honey locust tree

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_locust

Their thorns were big enough to puncture tractor tires in the 70s and 80s or straight through the rubber of a work boot. Not to mention the thorns have an irritant that feels wonderful.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

I am familiar with them. And Mesquite. The Mesquite thorns are WAY sharper. As in probably sharper than needles sharp. And I have seen 6" ones radiating out from the trunks. And of course they have poison on them that aches pretty bad, especially if it's a deep flesh poke, like one that bounces off the bone.

https://i.ibb.co/HDmKJV6/Lonesome-Dove-Jake-Gone-Mad-From-Mesquite-Thorn.jpg

This here is a branch that I just trimmed off. Sapling branch. Less than a year old. Solid 2" needles all up and down it.:

https://i.ibb.co/Hdp5S0X/Typical-Mesquite-Thorn-01.jpg

I try to keep the trunk ones knocked down in the trees I manicure near the house, so I don't have a pic of one. Maybe later if I head out back.

[–] • 1 pt

I agree with you on the mesquite. I have a tree in my yard called Sweet Acacia. That while the thorns don't get as long as mesquites. They are WAY more numerous.

[–] • 1 pt

Ah okay. Mesquite isn't too common in my area.

I still remember my Dad getting a thorn stuck through a pair of work boots.

[–] • 2 pts

Never plant Bradford pearl trees. They will fertilize other pear trees, resulting in horrid thorn trees.

[–] • 1 pt

Concertina gloves or barbed wire gloves might work against that. "might"

[–] • 1 pt

I have funny story about thorns. Doesn't add much to the picture. I moved into a rent house when I was younger that had a group of rose bushes that had not been properly maintained. They grew into an ugly gigantic combined shrub about 25 feet long. I decided I was going to fix it and went to hacking away. Had a branch swing back and a thorn went straight into my areola (I'm a guy. Tiny little area). Hurt like hell to pull out and then swelled up like a bitch. Interesting experience. The rose bushes turned out great though and had huge roses the next season.

[–] • 0 pt

Maybe those cheap ass gloves you're wearing. Get some real leather gloves and they wont go through it. I have several black locust trees on my property.