dwasifar
ArboristSite Operative
Picked up one branch of this mystery wood with a scrounged load. It's bright yellow and splits easily. Never seen anything like it. Anyone? I suppose I should mention it was in southern Wisconsin.
Wood ID?
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Mulberry
Yep - Mulberry. Terrible wood for burning. Tell me where you are and I'll take it off your hands for you. 
dwasifar
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Well, if you want to drive across the state and unstack a face cord of ash to get at the six pieces of mulberry at the bottom, come on up.Yep - Mulberry. Terrible wood for burning. Tell me where you are and I'll take it off your hands for you.
Andrew9802
Stihl441
Looks like Osage orange (hedge) to me. It and mulberry look very similar.
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Gugi47
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dwasifar
ArboristSite Operative
Aha! Quite possible. Those trees are all over the place around here, dropping their big wrinkly green softballs. I've never seen one cut down before, though, as it happens.
The bark looks more like mulberry to me...
http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/trees/plants/wh_mulberry.htm
http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/trees/plants/wh_mulberry.htm
dwasifar
ArboristSite Operative
Well, the Wikipedia article says the Osage orange is a member of the mulberry family.
Apparently the wood is exceptionally tough and durable when seasoned. So maybe I'll rescue these pieces from the fire next year, and make tool handles from them instead.
Apparently the wood is exceptionally tough and durable when seasoned. So maybe I'll rescue these pieces from the fire next year, and make tool handles from them instead.
To me, Osage orange has a more stringy appearance of the bark than this pic. But the wood could be OO as both are a bright yellow. Osage orange IS one of the top fuelwoods in the country. Just be careful not to overfire your stove!
https://garden.org/plants/photo/65871/
https://garden.org/plants/photo/65871/
Andrew9802
Stihl441
The bark on the hedge branches is almost flat like the picture that was posted. The trunk of the tree is a lot rougher unlike the mulberry tree which has a smoother trunk.
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Well, we are looking at a single piece of wood on a pic on the internet. I could go with either! 
My dad had a piece of Osage orange turned into a billy club when he was a cop. You don't want to get in its way.
deedskelly
ArboristSite Lurker
Mulberry, hedge has rougher bark and is very hard to split by hand
It is THE top period. Hottest burning wood in N.A. Burns roughly half as hot as coal.
One way to test to see if it’s Osage is the yellow color in the wood is wTer soluble so can our shavings or dust in water and it’ll leach out the wood making basically natural dye
It’s pretty yellow for mulberry imop
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