Here's another view of the wood. The picture doesn't show it, but the yellow is almost a fluorescent color. It also doesn't smell like something I would smoke with unless it just smells bad when green.
I have a few small pieces of mulberry in my wood shed. When the tree died I thought it was box elder so the tree service put it in the brush dump. I only found out later that it was mulberry, looked at the cross-section of the trunk in the dump and it was walnut brown, not white with red streaks like box elder. I salvaged a few pieces because I thought it was actually walnut, only much later after the rest was buried, did I find out it was mulberry. Oh well. Good stuff no doubt.
Looks good Midwinter. I've never burned mulberry before, but the consensus from the fellow hoarders is we won't be disappointed.
When fresh cut it almost had a sour like smell. Maybe like rotten ketchup with a hint of locust. I've never burned it before so its hard for me to pinpoint it.
This is what im getting is two different smell profiles. I smell ketchup(vinegarish), then sometimes it has the spiciness. Then i can smell what is like pilings at a salt water dock. The wood that has been soaked in creosote to preserve it has the odd smell when mixed with salt water. If this is confusing disregard it but black locust I have been cutting smells like this. It depends on how fresh it is. The older it is, more ketchup smell but more green, its a spiciness.
