my beginner setup-advice welcome

[qbilder]

If you handled that mulberry with a 391, it has a lot more respect from me. I have a 390 that I use for felling & bucking. Would never have considered it for milling, especially in mulberry. Mulberry is VERY hard, dense stuff. It's even tough on my band mills. I love it the wood, but it's tough stuff & still very heavy after dried. Ash will be nothing compared to mulberry. On my band mill(s) I have cut white oak, red oak, walnut, hickory, maples, mulberry, mesquite, desert ironwood, etc. & mulberry is right there with ironwood in toughness to mill. You got some pretty awesome boards there

 

[mikeb1079]

mulberry is right there with ironwood in toughness to mill.

that's interesting qbilder, i've milled some mulberry and found it very easy to mill, even wide slabs. i would say it was similar to black cherry in millability. perhaps there are some regional differences in this species?

 

[locdogg]

i didn't think the mulberry was that hard but it was pretty green, just cut it down a week or 2 before i milled it.