Does this look like hedge/osage orange to anybody?
Interior color kinda, but bark looks diffrent...trying to decide if it's worth the hour ride...
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/34286/Hedge_or_not.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1512373121)
Almost looks like two different kinds of wood in the pile. The little log in front on the left definitely looks like osage bark but the log in the upper left looks like it has smooth bark. Gary
Could be Mulberry. ???
Looks hourly to me. :D :D
What surprises me is driving that far for Hedge. Literally tons of it is dozed into a pile and burned locally. May see a few fence posts cut from it, but that's about it.
Please tell me what I'm missing as it looks like a pile of firewood to me. ???
An 8' decent log of osage is a good score. It just doesn't always grow in a usable log form.
Quote from: TKehl on December 04, 2017, 02:59:11 PM
What surprises me is driving that far for Hedge. Literally tons of it is dozed into a pile and burned locally. May see a few fence posts cut from it, but that's about it.
Please tell me what I'm missing as it looks like a pile of firewood to me. ???
There's the misnomer...around here there literally "no tons" of hedge dozed into burn piles or available unless on private property.
You're not missing anything, other than I tend to be picky about my firewood. ::)
Some of it puts in the mind of some different types of pear we cut down once...hmmm
We literally cut thousands of osage orange for fence posts on my grandmothers farm .In a fence row those things grown as a hedge row will stop a 2000 pound holstein bull with romantic intentions .I used to laugh.The bull wasn't amused .
Well, if it's Mulberry, it's a close cousin to Hedge and will burn well. Not as good as Hedge, Hickory, or either Locust, but better than Oak.
http://worldforestindustries.com/forest-biofuel/firewood/firewood-btu-ratings/ (http://worldforestindustries.com/forest-biofuel/firewood/firewood-btu-ratings/)
Don't burn it in an open fireplace. Pops like crazy.