Does anyone have any advice on selling a log (mulberry). The thing is huge and has nary an anthole and I gatherd from our friends over in Knots that it should be worth something.
Does anyone have any advice on selling a log (mulberry). The thing is huge and has nary an anthole and I gatherd from our friends over in Knots that it should be worth something.
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A single log is hard to market.. what you need to do is find someone who mills specialty woods in your area and bring it to them..
I caution you, please do not expect a big price for a single log.. The sawmill will worry about metal in the trunk.. (it could have been put there decades ago and grown over leaving no trace in the bark) they need to find a market for an unusual wood, and they don't have the normal bunker (1000 bd.ft.) to sell to the lumber brokers..
You will also be surprised at how much waste there is in a given log. I saw a classic case four years ago.. A large Black walnut tree was brought in. over 30 inch in diameter.. It yielded less then 150 bd.ft.
At some time in it's life wind shake had damaged the core and left much wood worthless.. The owner was livid when he saw how little wood there was but I stepped in and explained what I'd seen and showed him the bundle of slabwood/ waste wood.. he left muttering to himself and left the wood..
If you are a wood worker you might have the wood milled for your own use and when you build that cabinet or hutch you'll have an interesting story to tell..
Plus who hauls it/loads it, etc. Had a full log truck (about 5000 BF) of D. Fir of 14 " 32 ft long and larger (on the ground) and was offered all of $20 for the pile in 1972 _so, used it in ways Frenchy referenced.
Strip the bark with a spudder as soon as you can if you plan on using.
I think Frenchy is right - It won't be worth much.
Around here, I suspect you could sell it for $.10 a board foot for pallet lumber. I don't think mulberry is worth much for anything else.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. [Abraham Lincoln]
No mulberry is used as a furniture wood.
And I suspect that it would make for great turned pieces.
Surprisingly it has a pale golden yellow color.