Mulberry!

Great stuff,one of my favs.About the same density & heat value as Red/Black Oak. Have almost 1 p/u load of 18 month stuff left in backyard now,saving it for the colder days/nights.Can be tough to split at times because its usually crooked,twisted & sometimes knotty,but its worth the effort. I normally find some each year,people ask me to remove them & I say thanks lol.

A lot of it around here and end up with some every year, ended up with a big pickup load of green stuff this year. Good wood for sure.

Yea I love Mulberry...great stuff! Splits like a dream too!

Never burned mulberry,but my friend has a huge one that became partially uprooted on his pasture fence line,it's easily 40 inches at base he said go for it.I may tackle it this winter and add it to the arsenal.

I have a lot of mulberry. The bigger stuff splits nice. It dries out pretty quick too.

It does sparkle up on reloads.

Its good in the smoker too.Especially with pork or beef.Very similar to Apple,more available unless you have access to an orchard close by.Better than paying $1.50-$2/lb retail price for dry Apple chunks mail order or at the big box store.

Speak of the Devil. I just scored a truck load of Mulberry myself. Not more than like 15 minutes after reading your post, it was posted on Craigslist. The mulberry that I got this summer, has really dried out quite well. As I found out while moving wood around today.

Mulberry deserves more respect as far as fuel. Great wood! Don't have too much this winter. Saving it for
The cold days as well. Used up the small chunks this fall. Those little chunks put out a lot of heat!

mulberry is awesome, one of my favs. awesome heat producer and it dries fairly fast. ill have to try it in my smoker Thistle

I have some kind of berry that the snow storm took down for me, I ended up with close to a cord of wood once I got it all cut down, I can tell its going to be good to burn because its really hard. Does mulberry look similar to what I got?

Mulberry is a "1st cousin" to Bois D'arc/Hedge/Osage Orange. Also makes a good bow but not quite as good as Hedge.

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I have some kind of berry that the snow storm took down for me, I ended up with close to a cord of wood once I got it all cut down, I can tell its going to be good to burn because its really hard. Does mulberry look similar to what I got?

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It doesn't look like the Mulberry that I know. Also do you have burgandy or purplish stains all over your concrete? Mulberry have little fruits that birds love and they in turn spread that love later.

weatherguy said:

I have some kind of berry that the snow storm took down for me, I ended up with close to a cord of wood once I got it all cut down, I can tell its going to be good to burn because its really hard. Does mulberry look similar to what I got?

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If the wood is not yellow it is not mulberry. The picture looks like what we call black willow in my area. Not all mulberry has black berries. I have several on my property that have white berries. I like the black berry version and am just biding my time until the white berry trees are good for the firewood pile.

SHHHH! Please stop talking about how great Mulberry is, you're messing with my scrounging strategy. Around here people will kill for Oak & leave Mulberry lying around for some sucker (Me!) to haul off. I'll take Mullberry over Oak all day long. Dries in half the time, burns just as good and I love the look & smell of it. Some trees grow multiple, bendy trunks around here, but still not bad to split.
Only issue I have with them is the one on my neighbors side of the fence that overhangs my patio. Drops berries all summer & birds sit up there & rain purple crap down on everything.

I have roughly a cord and a quarter of it, seasoned for a year. It is great stuff. I am hoping to let it season for another year depending on how much BL I go through. My parents neighbor has a deadstander and I would love to get. And it does have beautiful coloring.

Here's my score last night. The couple of pieces of Oak will go to the neighbor. But I'm keeping the Mulberry all for myself.

is there any difference to speak of between white and red mulberry? i know that the white is introduced and invasive but is it any different to burn?

Mulberry . . . isn't that what the monkey chased the weasel around . . . until the weasel popped?

Love burnin mullberry - the coaled logs can sure surprise whoever opens the stove door for a reload. It grows wilder than weeds around here, sends out runners beneath the surface that pop up new trees everywhere. Grabbiest tops and twigs I've ever seen, they hang onto each other when clearing brush - like velcro!