Is this Hedge?

[Firefighter938]

I said mulberry because I didn't think the bark looked as furrowed as hedge tends to be. It also tend to start flaking some on the larger trees. Mulberry and hedge both start yellow and turn copper. Both good woods, hedge is just gooder.

 

[Stinkpickle]

The bark looks a little different than the hedge that grows around here, but the shape of the tree definitely screams hedge. I have mulberry trees that look like that, too. The bark on our hedge is "shaggier" and the branches are thorny nightmares.

 

[Dieselhead]

I’m going to have to take the truck and trailer out west one day, get a hotel, look on Craigslist for some, and haul a load back to the east coast where it doesn’t grow. Be like Smokey and the bandit, firewood edition.

 

[ohlongarm]

At a buddy's house in central Illinois. He said a few people told him it's hedge but it doesn't look like it to me.

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Not hedge ,it would be a bright yellow with an orange tint.

 

[JimBear]

Top left is fresh cut green mulberry, Top right a mulberry that has been down 2 years, bottom 4 are 10 - 30 year old hedge posts.

 

[JimBear]

These are all old hedge posts, if you zoom in you can see quit a contrast in color. The black ends are just the ends that didn’t get cut. I suppose color has to do with age @ which the hedge was cut, how long it layed around & where it was located in the fence line ( hilltop, swales or maybe a little sheltered.

 

[Rangerbait]

I’m going to have to take the truck and trailer out west one day, get a hotel, look on Craigslist for some, and haul a load back to the east coast where it doesn’t grow. Be like Smokey and the bandit, firewood edition.

You guys don’t have any there in CT? We have a decent amount of it here in WV....just rarely gets bigger than about 8” DBH from what I’ve seen.

 

[Dieselhead]

You guys don’t have any there in CT? We have a decent amount of it here in WV....just rarely gets bigger than about 8” DBH from what I’ve seen.

No sir

 

[JimBear]

Must be all the steroids we give them. It’s a short 4’ across.

You guys don’t have any there in CT? We have a decent amount of it here in WV....just rarely gets bigger than about 8” DBH from what I’ve seen.

 

[Tar12]

View attachment 219626 Must be all the steroids we give them. It’s a short 4’ across.

We get some biguns here as well in these old established fence rows....or hedge rows as the old timers call them...in the open farm country they can stretch for miles...