I picked up some wood on the side of the road over the summer. I was splitting it last week and I am unsure of the species. I didn't get a look at the tree or the leaf. It was stringy and hard so I think elm? I am sure most of you are better at this than myself. Bright yellow when split and then turned orange. Some pics
Looks very hedge or mulberry to my uneducated eye. At least the last pick. If it truly is either one, it's a great score of BTU's. I'm curious what the others have to say!
Thank you Pete. I don't have any other experience with hedge or mulberry except seeing them on the btu charts. That would be great if it was.
Wow, I see yellow red and white heart wood on the pics.. so I'll defer to wiser.. but would lean away from elm. Elm I have is so stringy even with splitter you need a sledge to finish it off and get it off wedge of splitter and Kyle no need to call me sir.. CBVT, or anything except late to dinner guessing you are or who raised you was military just a hunch.. dad was habit I have too.
Yeah... that's mulberry. Got a pile of it here I need to split, myself. Wood is yellow when the tree comes down, but turns that reddish-orange color rather quickly.
What do you think? Same species? I know for sure I was cutting mulberry, heck I was eating berries from it a few weeks before I cut it.
I guess because of their similarity the two are almost indistinguishable from one another....(sans fruit and leaves as evidence) but one thing is certain- Hedge will have younger branches with TERRIBLE thorns. My "private reserve" looks the same as any of the above pics, but the thorns that were present when I took it down required some carefulitude to deal with. Also adding to the unpleasantness was dropping that thing last July!
There's a little bit of ash and elm at bottom/back of this pile... what you see at the front here is mulberry from a tree removal I did at the end of last summer.
Thank you gentlemen I appreciate the help. I'm convinced it's mulberry. Do you know what I am looking at for seasoning time?
kyle up top there is button that says resources list all types wood BTUs and drying times answer is 18 months
