That looks like the elm I have got in Connecticut. That stuff Brad has is too light. The bark doesn’t look like elm either. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
That's Tupelo, Nyssa Sylvatica, AKA Black Gum. As tempting as that score is I would run as fast as you can away from it. Stuff is nasty to split, with hydraulics.
One picture i identified the trees as tupelo. The large trunks that resemble ash are as well mr.finn ? I did score a tupelo log two months ago and didnt know what it was. Posted thread for ID and found out to leave it alone. Bucked the one log, hand split the rounds for chits & giggles and posted another thread about it.
Cut them in rounds.Load them up and take them home.Split them when the real cold comes.That when those boys will break apart nicely.
I honestly hate to leave them but am well aware of the torture i face trying to turn them into splits. If that was all the wood i had access to i would buck 4" cookies them split. I dont see it on the BTU reference chart in the forum resource section either.
Elm is something you split when after they sit in the real cold for a few days.Then the next cold day you go split them.The cold is what makes them split easier.Now go git em !
ive since learned that is a mature black gum tree and not elm. Besides ive procured another red oak score...at least four PU fulls of fresh cut. Sorry Rich L
I've found that this theory doesn't work. What helps to split elm better is to let it dry a couple years. If you drop the trees when the bark has fallen off, and there are vertical cracks forming on the tree, not only are they typically dry enough to burn right away, but they will split as well as they can.
Ya drying a couple years is good also though I always split my Elm in the very cold weather and it splits well for me.
