Mulberry

[ReggieT]

It throws just as many spark/embers with the same authority as Hedge & my local Hedge source may be a tad milder than my Mulberry???? Weird!!

 

[abbott295]

I can't provide any pictures, but my father has a grandfather-style clock that his uncle made for him out of mulberry over 30 years ago. My great-uncle has been dead about that long. The wood is a golden yellow, as they say, rather like hedge. I have no idea what may have been used as a finish on it. It may have yellowed over the years.

My great-uncle had a circle saw mill and built a series of those clocks out of various types of wood grown on his farm and locally. All of the 2 x 12 floor joists in my parents' house were cut there from one cottonwood tree. As I remember, my dad had to split the log with a chainsaw (McCulloch, and heavy) to get it to fit through the mill.

The mill got sold at his estate auction; I have no idea where it went, except that it went some distance. Now my dad is to where he either wants to buy a sawmill, probably a band mill, or get someone to come in with one. He is taking out some trees that we planted ~40+/- years ago. Black walnut and some pines. I"m going to start a new thread.

abbott295

 

[rarefish383]

I've always liked this story, because it happened to me. Before I retired I was fourth generation in the Tree Care business. I was about 20 years old and a big storm went through our area and crunched every other Bradford Pear. I pulled up with our Ford F600 and an Asplundh 16 in chipper. I got out and my ground man started up the chipper. By the time he had it whining I had 20 ft long pieces cut. We chipped every thing but 3 or 4 big base pieces. As he finished chipping I started raking up. In less than an hour we were done. The home owner across the street walked up with his hand bandaged up like a baseball glove. He says, "you better watch that saw look what it can do". He had a rental trailer and hitch bolted on his car bumper. Said he paid $45 for the hitch and trailer, $15 for the saw, and $5 bucks an hour for a couple neighbors kids (good money for kids back then), and he had 2 full days in and wasn't finished. I just looked at him and said, "I just charged your neighbor $150 and the job is done, and I didn't cut my hand", and left, Joe.