Not Touching It!

State was busy this week 1/4 mile down from my driveway cutting trees. Elm. Looks like good wood, but im not touching it. Strict hand splitter. Too bad as its easy pickens' and a place to park and load.
My apologies to all the FHC members cursing me right now!

 

Shame on you Brad! No real reason to take the Elm given all the high quality wood you have. I get it.

 

I'd leave it. Need hydros to split.

 

I should buck a round and give it a whack with the isocore or X27 and see what happens. With the recent storm i have wood coming out of my well you get the idea!
You get much elm AC?

 

Must be nice to be able to pick and choose

 

You were the first i thought of when i saw the wood. "Sandhillbilly would love to have elm like this" Maybe ill buck a piece or two in your honor!

 

I just can't turn my back on Elm.Once processed it brings me great pleasure.As I look at that picture I could leave a lot of that wood as is and just cut to length if I want to be lazy about it.They'll fit my stove just fine.I don't think I could resist whacking those bad boys though.

 

I don’t mess with fresh cut live ones very often.
I did score a place to cut on Friday while delivering a load of gravel. Several standing dead elm, a bunch of down hackberry. But first they want me to clean up a pile of logs that they bunched up. She said it should be really dry. I seen the pile, should be some good Stuff and easy getting

 

I respect your restraint buZZsaw BRAD. I have the Champion 34-ton but I reserve that for use only on the crotches and the crazy knotty green spruce and pine that I am too unskilled to split by hand. I'd guesstimate 95% of the wood I split has been via the X27 or my trusty 80 year old wedge and isocore sledge. But it is nice to be able to wheel out the splitter when those nasties pop up........but there ain't nearly the satisfaction you get from splitting by hand...by a *longshot*. I love the nice clean lines and the "pok!" sound when you hit good and it just pops apart.

 

Absolutely leave it, will enrichen the soil in a few... be patient.

 

Exactly...some elm splits fine...some doesn't...both make great firewood, so you may as well find out what you're dealing with there

 

Elm splits fine out here - even by hand. Maybe a humidity thing (since there is none out here). I just wait until it's good and dry before I split it. I'd never pass on that.

 

I too swore of elm a couple years ago, but I’d have a hard time not taking a whack at a couple rounds. I’m sure I’d just ware myself out and remember why I swore of elm in the first place.
Good choice buZZsaw BRAD

 

I would be drooling if I seen that. Most of that would be burnt as is without splitting, just cut down to 20" rounds and in it would go!

 

If i had an OWB of course id grab it. Plenty of small to medium sized rounds to get.

 

Haha, if I saw that I’d think it was a strange white oak and grab it all up

 

Id at least get the small stuff that doesn't need split, say 8" or less.

 

you ever split elm Joe? It is okay firewood.

 

With all the storm wood ive got (maybe six cords worth, and some ive yet to cut) i have plenty of skinnies, but i hear ya. I usually half anything great than 5"

 

I do get quite a bit. I like it in my boiler. The stringy stuff's a pain, but with my big splitter I deal with it.