A good start today then the rain came.

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wetwood

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My wife and I spent an hour clearing around and cutting a fallen trunk of a multi-trunk mulberry tree before rain shut us down today. It was a short but fun time. The pup even got to play fetch for a while. With luck we can get back to it next weekend.
That mulberry is kind of an odd tree, before one of the trunks fell it looked like one short trunk with several large branches. Looking inside now, it is seven trees with big intertwined roots.
 

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Looks like that tree (s) will give you alot of wood. Nice pics
 
That tree will give you a good amount of wood. Also looks to be a pretty open area, which is a big plus. Congrats.
 
Nice to be able to work from the top down on some of it anyway.
Gnarly looking near the base, how well will it split?

I'm guessing the dog does the stacking :)
 
Mulberry is great splitting wood. It's a dense wood that always splits smooth. Seems to burn a lot like oak to me. Every trunk of this tree is alive and healthy. I did some net surfing for mulberry tree info and discovered that it is normal for mulberry trees to have multiple trunks. They also like to fall over or grow their branches into the ground to develop new root systems. These are natural ways mulberry trees propagate. Learning that and knowing mulberry is naturally bug resistant, I will just take 2 or 3 trunks and leave the rest to grow and see what happens.

http://mulberrytrees.co.uk/vegetative/
 
Nice cache of firewood there WW........thats cool how they were intertwined like that.
 
I've had good luck with mulberry in the past. One observation I had with it was the tendency for it to spark when i reloaded the stove. It makes a nice little fireworks show.
 
That looks like some fun cutting!
 
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