Elegant Farmer is a store that sells pies and baked stuff I think. But that's right on the western edge of Mukwanago near East Troy township.
Yeah I'll throw some pics up tonight when I get home from work. It's like extremely yellow when freshly split. Like it looks really cool, but unusual. And then it dries to a deep brown/orange.
Alright, I'm a man of my word. Here's two pictures from before work today when I was splitting a few pieces and enjoying the weather we had today...here's some pieces sitting in front of the cherry i had gotten with it. You can see the one piece towards the right side is darker as it was an exposed end when I grabbed it from the property. So that color is how it seasons. This other one just shows a close up of the splits, fresh vs. slightly seasoned ends... Woops double post...here's the splits sitting together. Fresh edge being bright yellow, exposed edge being dark orange-ish/brown.
Not my Toyota behind the pile as awesome as it is I'm a truck guy! You can also kind of tell that my house was once a one room school. That front section/rectangle was the original. Built in 1857, with the back section with the door on being added around 1980 or so.
Thanks for that. I guess I didn't have mulberry then - I saw the bright yellow in The WW's link and thought no way that's my tree, but reserved judgement until I could see yours. The tree I chopped up was definitely not yellow. Strange thing is that the "after a few days" wood does resemble strongly what I had, especially the bark. I guess that's why my visitor guessed wrong too. Unless ... thing is, the tree I bucked had been blown over by a storm some weeks before I got to it. I wonder if the yellow naturally fades over time. I can tell from other posts I've read that tree identification (in general) can be very difficult due to the huge variation in sub-species and in individual specimens subjected to different climates, soils, etc.
Yeah, you got that right it can be hard. Without seeing leaves and branch structure of the tree it is especially difficult. The best way to positively ID trees is leaves and branch structure together I would think. But obviously there's a few that are just very distinct. I'll never forget this bright yellow heart wood for mulberry.
I heated the house for 3 straight months on cherry this year. Any time I save $1800 on HHO, I'm excited! Lol It does , however , make three times as much ashes as oak. Oh, cherry's good for smokin chicken too!
TurboDiesel I burn a lot of cherry as my woods seem to have a lot. I find it burns and heats as well as soft maple. I really never use the cherry for smoking, I always turn to my favorite Apple wood for all my smoking.
Mulberry burns good and hot, just watch out for the sparks as already mentioned. Cherry around here fetches top dollar - more than oak even though it doesn't have the same BTU's. People really love it for the aroma. I once had about 10 cords of mulberry but had to sell it as mixed wood because people didn't know anything about it and I had to warn them about the sparks.
I love cutting mulberry and mixing it into the stacks, it gives a unique color accent to what is typically in a wood stack. I'd be way more stoked on the mulberry than cherry! From the right of this stack it goes pizz elm, honey locust, Mulberry, and ash on the end.
Love to see those old one room school houses turned into a home. We have plenty of them around here too. Here is a picture of an old school still standing! Believe it or not, I went to school there for a short time until they decided to close it.
Honestly I don't know how to pm anyone. Did you see the free firewood add for oak ? Scam or ??? Wow. I hope Benjamin sees it also.
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