Mulberry Firewood - Checking - June 2020
Back in the of last year, I took a bunch of rounds from hardwood trees that our neighbor took down to build their house . That pile was mostly Ash trees, but there were also a few Mulberry rounds that were included. I didn't really know what they were, but after I identified that Mulberry tree - I processed it the same way as the Ash. However, that Mulberry was alive when they took it down and that meant that it was heavy and wet. And...weirdly yellow. I split it over a number of months this past Winter and by March, I had all that I was going to split up do ne for the Winter with just a few larger pieces left. If you look at the bottom photo of this post , you'll see what the wood looked like when split. In April, I started to work through a few more rounds including more Mulberry and found a yellow heartwood with purple under the bark . Fast forward to today. The pile that I had stacked came tumbling down a month or so back....