I have a handful of mulberry trees but sadly they are all tiny, 3-4" sticks. I have more honey locust than I would prefer though...
The landscape ones here are the thornless hybrids. I know of only two in my area ive seen with the big thorns like that. I was talking with an Asplundh crew a couple weeks ago and one guy said he had taken one like it down. Dunno if id wanna mess with a thorny one.
I drove an hour one way for this mulberry. Isnt that adventurous enough? Actually if i found some, thorns and all, that i could cut i would take it in a heartbeat.
Figured you all would like this one. Ended up breaking the scale after one more. Doing some things I shouldn't have been doing. The stainless s hook snapped and destroyed the screen. Didn't hurt me, but I knew better
Those thorns will poke you right thru leather gloves without much pressure at all. Then they are barbed like a fishhook, so they are hard to pull out. Then They give you an infection, and your finger hurts for a week. If you're lucky the thorns don't end up in your tires. Then you get the privilege of waiting 3-4 years before you can burn the wood. I have some that I CSS in 2019-2020. I burned some this winter, The smaller pieces burned ok, but the bigger splits need another year to season. I like larger splits for the owb. That said I'd still process it again. (sigh) the illness is real.
I sold a cord of HL I CSS Summer of 2020 back in January. I have a half cord from May of 2022 drying. It'll get sold 25-26. Being predominantly a seller I like fast drying woods, but I like the "exotic" woods I seldom score so I would take more of it! Yes the illness is real!
So stay away from the the thorns I do agree with you when it comes to thorny mulberry trees then the wait before you can burn it It just doesn’t seem worthwhile to me But a mulberry with no thorns is a score
None of our native Mulberry has thorns. Didn't know any of them had thorns. Sent from my SM-S536DL using Tapatalk
I was talking about honey locust trees. I have seen big 4-6 inch thorns on mulberry trees but they are very rare.
Mulberry doesn't have thorns. Wild honey locust has those NASTY thorns. The hybrid honey locust common as landscape plantings is thornless. Both are great firewood. Sorry for any confusion.
