Major Excitement Turns to Major Bummer!

Pulled the second and last load today. He had bucked the rest to length and split the few bigguns into smaller chunks. Back up and load. He used his hydro splitter to section and honestly not as stringy as id have expected.

 

Looks good Brad. That’s surprising, especially for a tree that died this year and split clean like that right away.

 

Its all at storage awaiting your PU.

I went by a state cutting crew taking a tree down on my normal route to Wallingford. It was a dead, bark on elm. I stop and asked the traffic guy and he didnt know if wood was spoken for or not. Looks like they had just started and i didnt go back home that way. Ill check tomorrow. So i may have more for you.

 

Can't ask for better. Nice

 

Wow! Ya know what, if I pulled up to pre-split elm, I’d sure as heck take it!!

 

We Connecticut folks must be eating our wheaties lately. 3 whacks with the monster maul and this little bugger that Brad gave me sprung apart, revealing the strange heart wood inside that smells like hospital bandages to me

 

You did better than i did Eric. I went Lizzy Borden (well maybe ten whacks) on one of the bigguns there with the Isocore and it just bounced off.
Better hospital bandages than bedpans!

Which leads me to this question. You going to hand split or hydro the rest?

 

Hydro all the way. I have no desire to struggle with elm when I have 25 tons of mechanical force at my fingertips. There will be plenty of opportunity to swing my maul halving/quartering large rounds once I take that yellow birch down in a few weeks

 

I had a couple of nuggets in my PU. Gave them a sniff and it does smell like that!

 

You sure those weren't kitty "nuggets" Brad? I've never though about it that way, but Eric is right on with that description of Elm odor. Imma hafta go full The Wood Wolverine Wood now & swear off Elm. Anything my brain associates with hospitals makes me twitch.

 

One of the new bean-boozled flavors is old bandage!
BeanBoozled 6th Edition Challenge

 

Kitty nuggets (compliments of "Taters") got tossed into the woods when i emptied the litter box today. His nuggets smell worse then fresh cut pin oak. PU!

 

That would be an interesting secret Santa gift.

 

Brad, we've had epic times camping with friends and playing this game. Memories that will last a lifetime. 5 or 6 couples all about barfing when you get the nasty ones. I highly recommend.

 

It's actually less hassle than oak because it dries quickly. Oak, it needs to sit for at least 3 years of not more before it's ready. The elm, if you wait for mother nature to have the bark slough off it will be almost ( if not already) dry enough to burn in an epa stove right when you cut it down.

 

If you call letting splits sit and dry a hassle...

 

That's what the last big elm I got had done to it. Asplundh guy that had a big dead elm at his dad's place. I told him I wanted it, and I have it in the stacks. Some I need to shorten up a few inches, but I'm using the chop saw as much as I can.

 

Whats wrong with elm?

 

Same deal, but the drying is mostly done before touching it.

Also, I'll still say that you need to have the right kind of splitter. These horizontal/ vertical splinters suck for stringy stuff. You need a push plate splitter for elm.

I'm inheriting the H/V MTD that was my dad's in a couple weeks. I can do a side by side comparison with the push plate for you all when I do get it. Both are small 6-6.5 hp, so it'll be an apples to apples comparo.