can someone post of picture of a cut mulberry?

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jeanw

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you know a cross section of the trunk looking down?
Not sure if that is what we cut down in this old property... Only been here for awhile....It was light colored big about 2 feetin diameter...middleof wood like a beautiful scarlett stain... cant remember what leaves looked like.... dont want to waste time and energy and gasoline... splitting it with splitter if it is junk wood to burn.
Thanks
Jean
 
Mulberry is great stuff,one of my favs & quite plentiful in the midwest & most of the eastern US.Here's some random I cut between 2007 & last September.....
 

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Yep def worth the time. I burn a lot of mulberry and it does great
 
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Mulberry is great wood. Easily identified by the deep yellow color of a fresh split.
 
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Scarlet red stain in the middle sounds like box elder. The piss yellow of the fresh mulberry split will turn a deep, dark brown after it sits for a while, and turns faster in the sun.

I think I found my last mulberry split today.
 
Mulberry is great stuff,one of my favs & quite plentiful in the midwest & most of the eastern US.Here's some random I cut between 2007 & last September.....

Thistle, could you be more helpful, please ??

:p

On a more serious note, thanks... I have 2 coming down, and now know what to look for.

Funny, my tree guy called it "crappy wood". My tree guy, not my firewood guy, who is the tree guys father ;lol
 
Thistle, could you be more helpful, please ??

:p

On a more serious note, thanks... I have 2 coming down, and now know what to look for.

Funny, my tree guy called it "crappy wood". My tree guy, not my firewood guy, who is the tree guys father ;lol


Here's more cut just 2 days ago :p Cleaning up some long dead overhanging broken branches from a tree in neighbor's woods.They fell across part of my trail.
 

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you know a cross section of the trunk looking down?
Not sure if that is what we cut down in this old property... Only been here for awhile....It was light colored big about 2 feetin diameter...middleof wood like a beautiful scarlett stain... cant remember what leaves looked like.... dont want to waste time and energy and gasoline... splitting it with splitter if it is junk wood to burn.
Thanks
Jean

Just split a bunch of box-elder and have some mulberry stacked already. The scarlett color definitely sounds like box-elder. The color isn't always in the center though. Box-elder isn't a great BTU source, Mulberry is much better.
 
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Explain the spark issue, please.
 
Just think about a package of fire crackers going off. Poke mulberry or hedge with a poker and watch the sparks fly, hedge is the worst but great heat.
 
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You've got box elder. Scarlet red stain in the center is classic box elder. Fair shoulder season or mixer wood for denser woods like oak or locust.
 
Explain the spark issue, please.
The coals throw up a shower of sparks when you stir them up.
I loaded the Buck 91 this AM and was moving some coaling splits, musta been a Mulberry in there, and a shower of sparks shot out the door in every direction to a radius of about five feet. A welder's cap would have been handy. ;lol They are tiny sparks, but still...
It pops and sparks more than any other wood I have seen
I guess you've never burned any Sassafras? ==c That stuff pops to beat the band!
 
It does spark. It also burns the blues flame I have seen.

It is Hot Hot Hot.
 
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with a reddish hue to it, I'm thinking you've got box elder. It's in the maple family, on the soft end. It's a great shoulder season wood, and makes for some very pretty boards if milled....
Mulberry is yellowish when split, and browns like a caramel color when seasoned. Mulberry is a way better firewood than box elder, but both have a place in the stacks....
 
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Got this at a coworker's last summer. Load 1 ot 2. He couldn't get near it - covered in poisin ivy. He reads about the stuff and gets a rash. I got a quarter sized spot on my hand for a few days.
 
Mulberry is great stuff,one of my favs & quite plentiful in the midwest & most of the eastern US.Here's some random I cut between 2007 & last September.....
Mulberry is the chit,burned a little and it was awesome on par with hedge and BL.my friend in Ashland 45 minutes from me has trees 3 feet in diameter he says come and cut all you want. Too far to drive unless I had a huge trailer to make it worthwhile.
 
Mulberry is the chit,burned a little and it was awesome on par with hedge and BL.my friend in Ashland 45 minutes from me has trees 3 feet in diameter he says come and cut all you want. Too far to drive unless I had a huge trailer to make it worthwhile.

Ashland is Dex's neighborhood, I think.
 
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Get on it.

I get thru there now and then for work. I see you Ohio guys post something about where you're at, and I can say 'I've been there' a lot. I think I've been about everywhere in the northern half of the state.
 
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Get on it.

I get thru there now and then for work. I see you Ohio guys post something about where you're at, and I can say 'I've been there' a lot. I think I've been about everywhere in the northern half of the state.


Next time your in the area, drop a line and stop by ;)

Always looking to place a face.
 
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