Are you sure it’s mulberry? I’ve never had it get light after seasoning. Silver maple on the other hand...
Mulberry's dry weight is known to be 43 lbs/ft3, which is higher than a couple Hickory, certainly higher than Ash & Walnut, Yellow Birch... Certainly nothing anybody would describe as "light".
There's red mulberry and invasive white mulberry. Maybe the proverbial apples and oranges are being compared.
Believe me, it gets lighter then ash, not even close to oak, been burning quite a bit of it lately, its heavy as hell when cut.
Oh yea, i have it on my property plus have it at a place i cut, been at this a while, it's red mulberry as as we dont have any white around here. I have had some not seem to get as light but most of the time it's light when dry. Never was impressed with the coaling compared to oak.
I had one blow down last winter. I css in June. It came out to about 1/2 cord. I mixed in the stack with one year old Black Locus. I guess I will find out next year.
The mulberry I've gotten around here will easily outperform oak in heat production and coaling. I've only had mulberry from old mature trees so maybe that has something to do with it.
I've had everthing from young to old trees, all the same results, never had it coal very good. I would love to have some mulberry that was good as oak.
Well this will be my first experience with it. As far as i know its a scarce tree around here. Can only recall seeing two in my regular travels around here. Seeing it talked about here has made me curious of course. If more comes available ill tale it of course.
Looked around on the web, guess i do have white mulberry here, found one post by a guy who said he had some mulberry he was disappointed in but he also had some that was better. Maybe i will find the good stuff some day. LOL
I wasnt aware there are varieties of it. Just can identify it by the yellow/green heartwood and bark. Heartwood darkens to a deep red as it weathers. Any pics of fresh cut mulberry from your area oldspark ? Id like to see what it looks like to compare.
The article read that white mulberry is yellow when cut and red mulberry is more of an orange, the leaves of white mulberry are shiny on one side and red is not. But the wood from both turn reddish brown when exposed to sunlight. They both have fruit. As i recall almost everything i cut tends to be yellow before the browning. Burn a load this morning as we speak, i was curious, it is fairly light. Have to figure out how to get picture from phone to the forum.
I have a cord or 2 in the shed. Hard as a rock !! The land I've been cutting on has a bunch of it. I have mastered the art of picking and eating while standing on the moving tractor. Glad you had your berry popped, Brad.
Dark red waiting to go in the stove. This was in rounds about a week befor I split it. Already lost its highlighter yellow color.
My grandparents had a white MB tree...we have a red here...and another tree right next to the red that has both red berries and white on the same tree (and some that are kind of "light purple" too!) crazy...
I hit the score today to cut the wood up. Was making my way into the pile and discovered two more mulberry logs. Looks like all from one tree. Bucked those up and had the other log from Monday still in my truck. Pulled it off and bucked in the street. My first mulberry splits. Not much but now i can say ive processed some. Stuff splits easily. Now where do i stack it? With the green black locust?
