Another wood id

[philoshop]

I dropped a couple of small trees last May because they were in the middle of my shooting range. The leaves at the time looked like beech, because there is a beech just a few feet away that always has a good mast of nuts for the deer and squirrels, and I just assumed. I'm cutting it up now, and it doesn't look like beech to me, but my experience is in lumber and woodworking.
Details: two stems with shared rootball but not co-dom, soaking wet when felled, bucked yesterday (almost a year since felling) and heavy as ****, MM reads 40 - 45% on the piece shown (did I mention it's heavy), this piece split like it wasn't even there.
Thoughts?

 

[CTYank]

mulberry, by heartwood color & bark. Nice gloves- didja pinch a couple of mine?

 

[philoshop]

Never gave a thought to mulberry. I don't remember the leaves looking like beech, but I'll check my book. Thanks!
I'm a huge fan of the Atlas gloves for everything but concrete and masonry work. Brown jerseys for that **** at 50 cents a pair in bulk.

 

[Rburg44]

Mualberry! Great firewood imo! Plus dries quick

 

[tomtrees58]

mulberry a little milky this time of the year

 

[philoshop]

I dropped it a year ago, bucked it yesterday. Wet and heavy still. I'll split it this weekend. Thanks guys.

 

[AIM]

yep mullberry

 

[Hinerman]

I've never cut mulberry so I'll stir the pot. No votes for sassafras???? What does it smell like?

 

[audible fart]

It looks like mulberry, but i'd always thought mulberry was supposed to be along the lines of sweetgum when it comes to.ease of splitting. I figure tomtrees knows what he's talking about. Maybe i'm either thinking of a mulberry variation or a willow look alike.

 

[haveawoody]

+1 on mulberry.
Wonderful high btu woodstove firewood.
Not a great choice for an open fire though with all the pops and sparks and tossed embers mulberry makes.

Mulberry trees tend to be cut one a 3 replace it, so that range will have 3 times as many in a few years.

 

[philoshop]

Thanks for input!

 

[zogger]

The stump should be sprouting back. It's like a perpetual firewood machine.

 

[audible fart]

The stump should be sprouting back. It's like a perpetual firewood machine.

Perpetual firewood machine would be a good name for a bluegrass band.

 

[aaron]

Awesome firewood you got there. I burned quite a bit of Mulberry this Winter.

 

[philoshop]

No sprouts on either of the stumps, and it's been almost a year. I know the box elders will start sprouting before ya shut the saw off!
Is there a tree with wood and bark like a mullberry, but leaves like a beech?

 

[philoshop]

A pic of the stumps fwiw.