Thats hard to say. Been a while since ive sniffed some. Ive developed a liking to fresh cut green BL and i frequently sniff the splits. Dead barkless minimal odor. The worst is when the bark is just starting to loosen when its decaying. The most putrid stench. The worst wood smell IMO!
I rarely touch the stuff, but had to do the floor of the addition i did so i can do the ceiling next week. It was in the shade underneath. Tore down an old greenhouse room and rebuilt it stick framed. Homeowner doing the inside walls and ceiling luckily.
Visit this thread Cash Larue Scroll down and view the pics of fresh split, then aged. You'll know if you have mulberry or not with the color change. Mulberry?
I saw it. . Didnt want to go to the penalty box. Are mulberry trees always that yellow regardless of how long they been down?
I’m not sure. If you click the link there, the member who took them might have said. IME yes. When fresh cut they are yellow. It’s exposure to air that starts the transformation. I’ve had em “bleed” a white milky sap too.
That's not Mulberry IMO...was going to comment on the color change, but I see that's been covered... so I dunno...not leaning toward BL though either...
Got on this thread late. Been watchin and learnin. The only mulberry experience I got is the 3 on Oak Hill and they are still small and green. So I went to wiki and learned the red mulberry is native to the US and the white mulberry came from Asia as part of the silk worm thing and we all know how that turned out. Reds and whites cross pollinate and reproduce so that may have something to do with things discussed above. Dunno. So Hedge/Osage and Mulberry don't exist in the Tuscarora Mountains where I grew up. My first experience with Hedge was 7 years ago. Helped clear an old fence row and small lot with a friend and he told me it was crab apple. Did some research and learned about Hedge. Cash Larue that sure looks like Hedge to me. The Hedge I split was fresh cut, bright yellow and the bark looked exactly like yours. Don't remember having to split any after it dried, but I do remember it was as good or better than BL. Great score!
I scored a dead barkless one last December and it was bright yellow inside. Heres the thread Up On the Rooftop
Well Cash, whatever you have, you have some good quality firewood there. Osage & Mulberry will both turn brown, copper, reddish brown or whatever color folks perceive it to be. We all have our own color chart & smell scale. Lol. I don’t have any experience with Black Locust so I can’t speak to it. Here’s a couple more pics Pic #1 on the left is Mulberry, on the right is Osage; both are rounds cut 2 years ago. This piece of Osage is darker colored than normal. Pic # 2 is of a stack of Osage & Mulberry rounds. The rounds on/below the red line are Mulberry, everything above is Osage ranging from cut 2 years - 40years. Just for end view reference. Pic #3 is of Mulberry & Osage end cuts, top 2 are Mulberry, one from a live fork the other from a dead fork both from the same tree. The bottom 4 are Osage. The Osage had been cut for years & been fence posts.
