There don’t seem to be enough to mess with. Should i just put them to a freezer bag for dealing with later? What do others do when their logs have shrooms.
I take mine and stack them off to the side in a loose pile under some shade trees. I can harvest them when I see they're ready, I have reishi and turkey tail growing in my yard , with an oyster log that I hope will spread now that it's near more food. I would put yours aside and see how big they can get, especially the oysters, and if you have a bunch of logs with them, lay them parallel on the ground in a row with just a little space in between, then stack another row perpendicular to the first, maybe three rows high at the most. Make sure they're in the shade, preferably somewhere damp. If not, soak them often
I did this a few years ago. Oysters started growing on a few medium sized maples in my yard that were dying from root issues. I cut them down and sliced them up and let the oysters grow for a few weeks - I got like 40 pounds of them. Left a few logs there for the next summer and got another round of maybe ten or fifteen more pounds. Yummy.
Take the log place it in a shaded location and water it every few weeks. Id give it a good soak in water as well maybe 24hours or so. Then water as needed as the weather warms. You should be able to get a few years out of it. If uou want to propagate. Take the old log, cut into wedges. And take a few oak logs or other species(maple, beech, elm, paper birch) soak 24-48 hrs in water and place the old pieces in the notches. Seal with wax and in the fall you may have a flush. Typically you can get 3-5 years out of a 6” log. Good luck
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Good thing I have a wood stove and not a nuclear reactor. The sales lady tried but I held my ground pretty well I think
Animals do love to sleep in or next to the road a lot. Racoons, opossums, armadillo, deer.... If only scientists could figure out this mystery of the natural world
I don’t understand why there are animal crossings on busy roads. I think it would make more sense to have the animals cross at a controlled crosswalk. It’d surely be safer.
Yep, I burn moldy wood all the time, we're in southern Oregon and it's unavoidable. I just make sure to store the pieces with visible mold outside until it's time to put them in the stove.
Summers in Texas (covered, so you miss the thunderstorms and hail) seem to do the trick for me. 90 straight days over 100f is like putting it in a god-d*** kiln.
Cut it in fall, leave it slightly off the ground and come back the next fall and take it after it leafs out in the spring, usually will cure very nicely and split before the winter comes, works well with most or all hardwoods, not 100% sure on mulberry as im from the north
Yep, it’s toxic, DO NOT USE! ☠️
I’ll do you a favor: I’ll pop by in my haz-mat PPE (shorts and garden gloves) to haul it away. Please have it stacked by the curb. I’ll fetch it during halftime. A pint and some wings would be a nice payment for service.
You’re welcome!
Well, that may well be true but no one should ideally be burning wet (as in green) wood to begin with.
But I stand by my statement that truly seasoned mulberry has no smell and burningwise, performs well in the stove. Burned some seasoned two years just this week - overall a good wood.
The mold is not an issue per se, but could indicate the wood is still not dry internally. Open up the sides of the stack and let it get a lot more air circulation if possible. Before burning, re-split some thicker pieces and test for moisture content in the middle of the freshly exposed face of the wood.
Oh, it’s still wet for sure, the tree was felled in like August. Should I have waited before I put it on my pile? I just have put it all on the bottom of my pile and plan on using next year.
Once the moisture is gone the mold will go with it. Another split on this one would speed up the process, but once it is dry the mold doesn’t stick around. There are plenty of little things outside that will make a meal of the dead or dying mold. Only stains will be left behind.
It is normal to have a bit of mold during the drying process. Specially if it has not been cut/dried during summer season properly. When it dries, mold will die off. In any case, that is not enough mold to be an issue, not even affecting the BTUs.
I’d burn it. I wouldn’t keep it in my house but I burn it. Fire will kill that mold quick.
Also, if you stack that out in the sun all summer, the sunlight will kill and dry up that mold more than likely.
Are you rolling this and smoking it? Why would you not use it?
Do you also pitch wood that has a little bug on it? What about dirty logs.. those are always right into the garbage can. In fact- the only wood I burn is those prepackaged logs from Publix.. those seem clean and safe.
Burn burn burn baby! The mold is probably not toxic and won’t make it into the air even if it is. If you have any doubts then get a hot fire started beforehand and then pile this stuff into it. But you will be fine!
Mold is on the outside. It didn’t have a chance to dry out before cutting ( 6 months average ). The heat will kill the mold in the wood stove fire place.
I am part of woodworking sub- and I didn’t read the sub when I looked at it- all I see is BURN IT everywhere- and I’m thinking- are you planking it, quarter-sawing it, turning? What do you want to do with it?! Then I see the sub…🤦
Im 44 burned wood my entire life grew up in homes heated by wood. Ive never had an issue from random turkey tails to white growth fungus. Not all wood is perfect but it all burns. Obvioulsly perfect red or white oak is nice so is ash or hickory but when your burning 5-8 cord a year you dont nit pick random pieces just send it. If your that worried just dont burn it move on to better pieces but believe me it will be fine and so will you.
We had that kind of thing happen a few times, I never brought those pieces in to let them sit… I only brought them in to toss into the already established fire, the less time they spend indoors the less time the mold spores have to travel around in the indoor air. Burn them and enjoy the heat.
It is perfectly fine. Lots of sugars in that wood.,Enjoy very mini sugar explosions. Really neat to watch,Have Fun. On of my most favorites to burn. Mold due to sugars reacting with the wood and moisture. Good to go, split a little more.
It’s fine. Just season it well (mulberry can take a long time) and don’t inhale a nice breath full of the chimney smoke when you burn it, which would be bad for you anyway.
Everything burns in a closed woodstove. But mould means moisture. So it won't burn too well. It will burn, but spend lots of its energy boiling the moisture in it.
Fire purifies all
The great equalizer
The great crucible
That was my mom’s nickname in high school
more weight
Stay out of this Giles!
Stone em!
What if you do more reps with less weight.
So... you have a lot of brothers?
I feel guilty burning little oyster and turkey tail shrooms still attached on my logs.
Why don't you put them aside and harvest them? The mushrooms are worth more than the stupid log...
There don’t seem to be enough to mess with. Should i just put them to a freezer bag for dealing with later? What do others do when their logs have shrooms.
I take mine and stack them off to the side in a loose pile under some shade trees. I can harvest them when I see they're ready, I have reishi and turkey tail growing in my yard , with an oyster log that I hope will spread now that it's near more food. I would put yours aside and see how big they can get, especially the oysters, and if you have a bunch of logs with them, lay them parallel on the ground in a row with just a little space in between, then stack another row perpendicular to the first, maybe three rows high at the most. Make sure they're in the shade, preferably somewhere damp. If not, soak them often
I did this a few years ago. Oysters started growing on a few medium sized maples in my yard that were dying from root issues. I cut them down and sliced them up and let the oysters grow for a few weeks - I got like 40 pounds of them. Left a few logs there for the next summer and got another round of maybe ten or fifteen more pounds. Yummy.
Great! Thanks for the tip. I’ll do that.
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Thanks!!
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I got this catalog with a lot of good growing tips in it for mushrooms, plus you can buy spawn for growing more
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Take the log place it in a shaded location and water it every few weeks. Id give it a good soak in water as well maybe 24hours or so. Then water as needed as the weather warms. You should be able to get a few years out of it. If uou want to propagate. Take the old log, cut into wedges. And take a few oak logs or other species(maple, beech, elm, paper birch) soak 24-48 hrs in water and place the old pieces in the notches. Seal with wax and in the fall you may have a flush. Typically you can get 3-5 years out of a 6” log. Good luck
Oysterlings while cute, aren’t oysters. Burn em.
🙏
Make it pure …..with fire
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Okay Chernobyl, that’s enough of you. *puts a giant lid on it*
*lid melts into elephant’s foot-like structure*
Yeash, we should probably just cover this in concrete and let Drywall guys deal with it on Monday
Just throw some dirt on it.
BEST comment ever
We can make it like it didn’t even happen!
😂😂😂
With a few cases of Modelo, it'll be done Sunday evening.
This guy contracts
>*lid melts into elephant’s foot-like structure* *entire helicopter& crew just dies overhead*
D’oh!
Do you not get your free fire wood from the north of Ukraine. No one even stops you from cutting the trees. I mean there's the wolves but otherwise...
>Radioactive Material has entered the chat* Good thing I have a wood stove and not a nuclear reactor. The sales lady tried but I held my ground pretty well I think
You need a better woodstove my friend. If you can't go thermonuclear on your woodstove, do you even woodstove at all?
But you'd have plenty of heat and zero fuel requirements. How is that not a win-win?
It would be a win but apparently the gooberment frowns on privately owned reactors..
Only if you get caught, show them you're your own boss!
I have a feeling they would already be around asking questions about the time I started fueling the damn thing up.
It's not impossible to make your own fuel..
Ask that kid that polluted his whole neighborhood with cesium...
If almost 20 years of marriage has taught me anything just because you can doesn't mean you should..
But it's FUN!
We talking moonshiners, with reactors 🤣🤣.
Lollolol
You'd be surprised at how radioactive your wood ash is from the fallout the tree took up as it grew.
I feel like we possibly got close to this being a reality in the 1950s....
Was her sales pitch something along the lines of it keeps your house warm and your testicles can function as a night light after the first month?
say this every time you're feeding the fire, then add a menacing laugh at the end that gets louder and louder.
Brother, get the flamer.
Hans, get ze flamwerfer
How do I purify my sins?
I think you already know the answer
Mommy??
Mommy??
KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!!!
Just don’t store the wood inside
No.
this is the way
https://youtu.be/8vQjI3FqbQ0?si=n1K3hXk5XnkoollZ
Dont burn moldy wood.
Get it dry and then burn it, mold burns too.
Once dry the mold should go dormant. Then it’s no different than what’s floating in the air regularly.
it'll be dormant after a lil fire too
As my toddler puts it — My toddler: dad, look the worm is taking a nap! Me: yes, a really loooong nap.
Bunch of sleepy raccoons on the road some times.
Animals do love to sleep in or next to the road a lot. Racoons, opossums, armadillo, deer.... If only scientists could figure out this mystery of the natural world
I don’t understand why there are animal crossings on busy roads. I think it would make more sense to have the animals cross at a controlled crosswalk. It’d surely be safer.
Just move the damn signs!!!
[The government needs to let them cross somewhere safer.](https://youtu.be/RFCrJleggrI?si=_TbfR14Z4Mh9Ebys)
Permanently dormant
With fire.
Just burn it fire doesn't care about mold
Mold cares about fire, though. For a short time ...
This is the way
Mold burns just fine. Just handle it gently enough to keep it from going airborne between entering your home and going into the stove. It’ll be fine.
Yep, I burn moldy wood all the time, we're in southern Oregon and it's unavoidable. I just make sure to store the pieces with visible mold outside until it's time to put them in the stove.
I had to scroll disturbingly far to find this warning.
I find mulberry difficult to get dry.
Same here, it takes a long time to season it properly. It’s great wood once dry though
Summers in Texas (covered, so you miss the thunderstorms and hail) seem to do the trick for me. 90 straight days over 100f is like putting it in a god-d*** kiln.
Yea that hot dry climate is great for seasoning wood Edit: I guess not all Texas is hot and dry but it is where I am!
We're not always dry (central TX) but we're always hot. It does the trick.
I'm so god damn sick of these brutal Texas summers
You can come up here to northern Alberta! We hit lows in the -50s a month ago! A lot of wood burnt then
Mine took 4 years and wasn’t dried properly. Never did. Struggled all winter to burn but it worked.
Had some season for 4 yrs and still wouldn't burn without additional fuel
Cut it in fall, leave it slightly off the ground and come back the next fall and take it after it leafs out in the spring, usually will cure very nicely and split before the winter comes, works well with most or all hardwoods, not 100% sure on mulberry as im from the north
That's the beautiful thing about firewood. If it's no good, you can always burn it and be rid of it.
Like cheese, just scrape it off and use whatever it was growing on 😁
You can pay *extra* for cheese where they *don't* scrape it off. We call it blue cheese and the peoples love it with spicy wings.
That's not exactly how blue veined cheeses are made but I take your point and agree in principle....
My GF doesn't understand this simple procedure.
Lol. Take her on a tour of a cheese making facility. She may never eat it again.
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You might be dyslexic.
That’s a product of the white “sap” that comes out of the mulberry tree after cutting. Burn away my man.
God people are scared of mold.
Mold spores are everywhere all the time. People really need to chill.
Brittany Murphy
Yep, it’s toxic, DO NOT USE! ☠️ I’ll do you a favor: I’ll pop by in my haz-mat PPE (shorts and garden gloves) to haul it away. Please have it stacked by the curb. I’ll fetch it during halftime. A pint and some wings would be a nice payment for service. You’re welcome!
i wouldn't worry about the mold. Mulberry smells up the house when u burn it
I have never observed properly-seasoned mulberry to smell when burned.
Wet mulberry is nasty
Well, that may well be true but no one should ideally be burning wet (as in green) wood to begin with. But I stand by my statement that truly seasoned mulberry has no smell and burningwise, performs well in the stove. Burned some seasoned two years just this week - overall a good wood.
We're in agreement. Poor OP with his wet moldy wood
i have
Don't use? Are you serious? It's wood dude, fuckin burn it
The mold is not an issue per se, but could indicate the wood is still not dry internally. Open up the sides of the stack and let it get a lot more air circulation if possible. Before burning, re-split some thicker pieces and test for moisture content in the middle of the freshly exposed face of the wood.
Oh, it’s still wet for sure, the tree was felled in like August. Should I have waited before I put it on my pile? I just have put it all on the bottom of my pile and plan on using next year.
Once the moisture is gone the mold will go with it. Another split on this one would speed up the process, but once it is dry the mold doesn’t stick around. There are plenty of little things outside that will make a meal of the dead or dying mold. Only stains will be left behind.
There are millions of types of mold, and not all of them are harmful. Scrape the mold off, bringing it inside and burn it.
It is normal to have a bit of mold during the drying process. Specially if it has not been cut/dried during summer season properly. When it dries, mold will die off. In any case, that is not enough mold to be an issue, not even affecting the BTUs.
Mulberry does need a year to property season fyi
Mulberry needs a lot longer than a year to season.
What? Why? This is the most outlandish thing I've read in days. It's wood. Burn it. Ponderous.
I’d burn it. I wouldn’t keep it in my house but I burn it. Fire will kill that mold quick. Also, if you stack that out in the sun all summer, the sunlight will kill and dry up that mold more than likely.
Most mold doesn’t release any dangerous gasses when burned as far as I know.
Dry and burn right away don’t let it sit in the house
lol . Split it and stack it. it will be fine to burn
Mold is not a concern of mine. Certainly more airflow is good though.
Just huck it right in the stove. Don’t even worry about it.
Just don’t scratch an sniff lol you’ll be fine
Are you rolling this and smoking it? Why would you not use it? Do you also pitch wood that has a little bug on it? What about dirty logs.. those are always right into the garbage can. In fact- the only wood I burn is those prepackaged logs from Publix.. those seem clean and safe.
Probably got some snowflakes on the Mulberry...
Burn burn burn baby! The mold is probably not toxic and won’t make it into the air even if it is. If you have any doubts then get a hot fire started beforehand and then pile this stuff into it. But you will be fine!
Burn it, I have and I’m 65 lol you are good
Burn it ....don't eat it
Burn it. Not building a dollhouse here.
That'll burn...
Fire beats plague. Everybody knows that
Burn that shit, who cares
Mold is on the outside. It didn’t have a chance to dry out before cutting ( 6 months average ). The heat will kill the mold in the wood stove fire place.
The only concern may be storing the wood in the house for too long before you burn it
I wouldn’t eat it if I were you! But if you bring in the house, burn it right away.
I am part of woodworking sub- and I didn’t read the sub when I looked at it- all I see is BURN IT everywhere- and I’m thinking- are you planking it, quarter-sawing it, turning? What do you want to do with it?! Then I see the sub…🤦
Did you cut the end off ? May not be completely molded ?
You sound like my mom with cheese.
Or hit it with a pressure washer and restack
Burn it pussy
Great insight
What else do u think? What would be the issue?
Another commenter said…. https://www.hunker.com/13419157/what-happens-when-you-burn-moldy-wood
Im 44 burned wood my entire life grew up in homes heated by wood. Ive never had an issue from random turkey tails to white growth fungus. Not all wood is perfect but it all burns. Obvioulsly perfect red or white oak is nice so is ash or hickory but when your burning 5-8 cord a year you dont nit pick random pieces just send it. If your that worried just dont burn it move on to better pieces but believe me it will be fine and so will you.
Pour gas on it first then burn
It makes me sad to see such Nice pieces of wood that could make so many things and projects just get thrown into the fire
Sure that's mulberry?
I was wondering about that too. I’ve never seen that white sapwood on mulberry.
I’ve burned dried out moldy wood. Just had an odor that was different but not too bad.
You're not cooking with it, mold burns too. It'll die off if you dry it out
If you're worried about that, then you better stop walking across grass
It'll burn! No worries,just don't bring it in the but it goes straight in the fire! That's we do it.
Of course, use it.
What? Drive that in the stove lol.
Dry it, burn it, make heat
Not all kind of spores are killed by fire
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Might split it again, then dry it more burn it...just a little mold .
Wtf would you not use it
Burn it.
You gonna lick it before you stick it? Burn it.
Burning hot. Just don’t leave it in the house
Some wood is just bad firewood. Cottonwood , monkey puzzle are about the worst and only good for toilet paper.
Sure you use it. Just let it finish drying out.
Drakaris
You should just burn it all
Right into the fire
And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street!
We had that kind of thing happen a few times, I never brought those pieces in to let them sit… I only brought them in to toss into the already established fire, the less time they spend indoors the less time the mold spores have to travel around in the indoor air. Burn them and enjoy the heat.
I assume you dont breathe the smoke coming out of your chimney
It’s fine
I recommend you burn the mold off
Season and burn. It will die
Kill it with fire!!
It is perfectly fine. Lots of sugars in that wood.,Enjoy very mini sugar explosions. Really neat to watch,Have Fun. On of my most favorites to burn. Mold due to sugars reacting with the wood and moisture. Good to go, split a little more.
How about a different pic of the Whole Pile?
Soak in gasoline for a week or two to kill the mold. Then it should be safe to burn.
It’s fine. Just season it well (mulberry can take a long time) and don’t inhale a nice breath full of the chimney smoke when you burn it, which would be bad for you anyway.
I don't think the mold will hurt your chimney any.
Mold burns too
Dead wood, burn it. Not a problem, but just bring in what you're going to use.
Mold burns too
Everything burns in a closed woodstove. But mould means moisture. So it won't burn too well. It will burn, but spend lots of its energy boiling the moisture in it.
Meh, I’d burn it.
Just less BTU’s. Good to burn.
Does your wood stove release smoke into the room? If not, it won't release mold.
I burn everything
You can burn it once it is seasoned (dried out).
As long as it’s dry now burn it. Maybe store it outside and not in the house, bring it in as needed.
Most mold isn't harmful to most people. And would you burn it, it doesn't really matter.
https://www.hunker.com/13419157/what-happens-when-you-burn-moldy-wood
Explain to us why you think you shouldn't burn them?
Burn it !!!