Here we go again FHC folks. This was some "roadkill" wood i picked up January last year along a state highway less than 10 minutes from home. I happened upon it right after they cut and scrounged maybe 4 truckfulls of primo wood including this. The green rounds were as heavy as hickory and were TOUGH to split with the Fiskars. I believe the temps were below freezing when split. I thought maybe walnut (which ive never processed) and have since learned on FHC that its easy to split by hand. The splits pictured were CS then stacked in my friends shed within a week of the scrounge. The wood is still very heavy after 15 months of seasoning. Ive split elm before but it try not scrounge it that often because of the splitability factor. Ive had fresh cut green elm on the dead of winter split like cake, but not this stuff. end of split where axe hit. opposite end of same split..twists and turn grain! Whaddaya think?
Not much help on this end Brad, I’m just glad I have a boat load of oak to split with my Boss 7 ton electric splitter and not split by hand, lol.
I was doing a "making firewood" job today. I was a 22" DBH red oak and was hand splitting. Oak is not too bad with just the Fiskars. I noodled the tough, knotty ones of course. Guy wanted the logs only 12" long so that made it easier, but more logs though. I may post another thread either about it very soon in another catagory.
I don’t think elm, but I have no other guess. I’m not used to seeing many varieties of trees like you easterners.
Its an old thread from 2019. Wood has been burned. It was still heavy when seasoned if memory serves me correct.
Not red elm. The ends of a red elm are nearly perfect reddish brown all the way across with no white ring around the outside
I'm thinking it's not red elm. I've collected a lot of red elm the past few years, but it was all long dead, maybe even 20 years. The bark has been long gone, and there were a few signs of dutch elm disease, which has devastated elms around here. There were a lot of squirrel scratches. In your original pictures, the bark doesn't look like elm, and the cross view of the split doesn't show the usual shredding like elm does. Anyway, here's what my red elm looks like, just for reference.
