Subject: osage orange

From: [email-masked] (Joseph Young)
Date: 31 Mar 1997 03:04:56 GMT

i cut a mulberry tree and it appears the wood will look much like osage 
when it dries. anyone with experience with mulberry wood?

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From: [email-masked] (Foxeye)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 03:58:41 GMT

can't reall speak for Mulberry, but Osage now thats another
story.....let it dry, and its like working with steel.  I have many a
Bodot, Moc Orange, Osage, or whatever you want to call it on my
property.  Best firewood I ever had, provided you cut and split before
it dries, which seems like almost overnight.  It makes treated lumber
seem like a joke, as some of my posts for fence are over 50 years old
out of 3 to 4" Osage, now weathered and eroded to about 3/4" to 1"
still with the fence staples in it, and you can't break it off or pull
the staples, or drive another staple in it.  But I have heard Mulberry
does mimick Osage in most ways, but I have no experience with it.

>when it dries. anyone with experience with mulberry wood?

Foxeye

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