Found this stuff on a scrounge today, when I cut into it was throwing bright yellow chips I was thinking I know just the guys to tell me what this is. Very heavy, strong smell. Overall a good days work wound up with a cord cut split and stacked. There was also a giant ash tree that needed allot of noodling but all worth it now.
Wood ID
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D8Chumley
Minister of Fire
Sassafras? What's it smell like? Vanilla-ish or root beer? Looks like some sass I scrounged last year
D8Chumley
Minister of Fire
In newer to the ID game, but if it's light weight-wise and smells like you describe I'm saying Sass. Someone with more knowledge will confirm or dispute my guess but it looks like some I found in a hedgerow scrounge
D8Chumley
Minister of Fire
Oldman47
Minister of Fire
Hedge grows almost everywhere in the eastern US. It is only native south of the Mason Dixon line but was planted long ago for its use as fence posts well into the more northern states. If you cut a fence post from it and set it in the ground it will still be very strong 50 years later with almost no visible rot.
Clyde S. Dale
Feeling the Heat
Firefighter938
Feeling the Heat
midwestcoast
Minister of Fire
Scooter422
Burning Hunk
Oldman47
Minister of Fire
OK, so is mulberry a bad thing? I need to remove several "volunteer" trees along my back fence and most are mulberry planted by my bird friends that sat on the fence to do their business. Can I just C/S/S it and be OK to burn it in a year or two?
midwestcoast
Minister of Fire
It's basically like Oak on a quicker drying schedule. You're gonna like it!
Should be OK in a year depending on...
Year & a half or more and it is totally primo,
Should be OK in a year depending on...
Year & a half or more and it is totally primo,
claydogg84
Minister of Fire
I've yet to burn Mulberry but judging by the weight of it there is no way it's going to be dry after 1 season.
Woody Stover
Minister of Fire
I'd give it a couple years. I've only burned small ones that I found in the woods, dead. Wasn't overly impressed but it was OK. Just didn't seem like it had White Oak-type power, like you see in the BTU charts.
midwestcoast
Minister of Fire
Well, I've burned cords & cords of it & can assure you that Weight is not the biggest factor. It dries up pretty good within 1-2 years for me. He didn't ask if it would be ready in 1 season.
Some species start out wet & dry quickly, others are drier to start with, and then there's Oak which starts wet & likes to stay that way for a long while
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