I found it about 20 feet into the woods, covered in brush in a wooded area where the nearest house was over a mile away. I’m guessing someone pitched it into the woods from a moving vehicle, for whatever reason. There are no shortage of people around here that think the forest is a landfill.
Full load today. Mostly large dead/barkless elm rounds, with a handful of smaller bigtooth aspen rounds buried in there, a couple quartered rounds of dead red oak, and a few dead ash rounds up in front.
I started out with the intent of getting a load of dead ash this afternoon, but it was stupid muddy where I was cutting so I moved on. Found the oak and aspen 15 minutes down the road from there, then found the elm in an area I seldom travel. I’d like to get the rest of the elm next weekend. I texted my coworker Vince about the elm and he was actually eyeing it too for the past couple weeks His in-laws live around the corner in Thomaston.
I thought so too. I’m cautiously optimistic it won’t be too much of a bear to split either. This is the first time I’m getting dead semi-dry elm which is supposed to split much cleaner than live-green.
This is by far the absolute best splitting elm I’ve over gotten. I really hope whenever I can make it back there that I can grab the rest.
No, it was the barkless rounds from last weekend. I have no idea how long the tree was dead for, but the logs on the ground were cut within the last month. All the bark was gone.
Go get the rest. Bring your snowshoes. I can recall scrounging green fresh cut elm over 20 years ago and it split clean like ash. I think it was frozen at the time. Im tempted to grab that elm from my current Asplundh cut. Wasnt huge so shouldnt be too bad through the hydro.
Noticed the snow, does freezing temps help in splitting Elm? Love it when they split straight like that.
It’s relatively warm here right now, right at freezing. I’ve heard that splitting it in a cold snap helps (low teens or single digits) but I haven’t tried that yet. My SOP is to leave it in the round for close to a year then split.
Another lucky day while cruising the dirt roads. I came across a pile of black locust and black cherry that was bucked to length (every which length except the right one ) and dumped roadside. I’m guessing it’s been hiding in the weeds since last spring, as I drove past it all summer and never saw it. Some of the wood is past its prime but still fine for shoulder wood. Since I’ll be adding this to my personal stash it makes no difference to me. I had to trim a couple pieces and the new $20 Husqvarna 45 caliber was the right tool for the job.
Nice little find. Roadkill loves to play hide and seek in the overgrowth. Why I wait until it all dies to scrounge BL.
This one’s kind of a rarity for me. Pin oak. I’ve only gotten a little of it one other time about 3 years ago. There’s also a couple ash and red maple skinnies at the bottom too.
