Mulberry Burners

I love the wood for the long burn times. However; do y'all find that it is a "dirty" wood???? Meaning lots of ash after burning. Just axing.

Have never had to empty the stove this often with silver maple or box elder or elm prior.

Just saying.

 

No, but I do find that it coals up and makes it seem like there are many ashes, we just stir, rake, repeat to burn them down.

 

I'm with Adam. It does seem to coal heavily. We just rake to the front and reload. If the coals get excessive we will rake to the front and add a couple small splits on top of the coals. It seems to give off a little more heat and gets the coals reduced down a bit better. Honestly, I thought there was less ash than the softer maples, or walnut. I'll be burning mostly softer stuff till Wednesday. When the 20* highs start, I'll try a whole day with mulberry and let you know what I think, Whitey!

 

I burn a lot of mulberry from fence rows I clear. I love the wood. It grows fast and packs the BTUs. I haven't ever noticed excessive ash. Occasionally get excessive sparks, but I like that. Just watch introducing fresh air during reload. That can produce a spectacular show.

 

Dead on with my experience. I actually prefer it over osage as it's close btu wise(to me), no thorns, sap isn't as bad and dosen't dull a saw as bad. Especially when it's dead. Osage coals hard like that too. To me, it's the fastest growing/best btu wood around here.

I burnt up a over 3 ft catalpa tree one year at the start of a season. The ash from that was the tighest stuff I've ever seen. It was like sand with little to no fly ash. The WHOLE trees ashes fit in one 30 gallon trash can. Couldn't lift it either!

 

Agree about the sparks 128.58%!!!!

I'm still convinced that Mulberry just produces a lot of ash. I waited to see (gave it time) if anything would change before replying back in this thread; and nothing has!! I was gone most of Saturday. Got the stove set cruising before I left; and was gone 12+ hours thereafter. Got back to a cold stove, save for a few hot coals, so I emptied almost all the ash from the stove. Here it is just 1.5 days later, and I'm almost needing to empty the ash from the stove again!!! Have never experienced this much ash from any other wood I've burned.

I dunno regards!!!

 

Elm is what creates a ton of ash for me.

 

Not to be the moisture police here, but how dry is the Mulberry? I've not had any excessive ash with it either, but mine is 2+ years seasoned. Wonder if that matters?

 

2 years CSSed. Takes off on reloads without problems, and burns long (for my small stove), and puts out great heat. No hissing or the like when loading.

 

Addendum:


I think I can definitely say that Mulberry does produce much more ash than the wood I'm burning now. Back into the Box Elder, Maple and some Cherry now; and no where's near the ash build up in the stove per the same amount of loads put thru with the Mulberry.

Just saying of course.

 

I burn a lot of Mulberry and while I like it a lot no way do I agree that it has more BTU's then my Bur Oak which I also burn a lot of, my Oak will kick it's ash seven days a week.

 

are you burning alot of bark with the wood? that will produce alot of ash. also you could try throwing in a scoop of ashtrol or some crushed limestone. that helps reduce the amount of ash.

 

Different from my experience. The Catalpa I had packed like sand and was HEAVY. Had a tree that was over 3 ft in diameter that fell out by the road. Burnt the whole tree and one 30 gallon can easily held all the ashes from it.