http://chambersburg.craigslist.org/mat/5121523587.html Locust Firewood Unsplit - $45 (Carlisle) Unsplit locust firewood $45.00 per pick up truck load. Text Text 717 991-9191 for pick up info. A bit far for me, UncleJoe up your way?
Yep. That's pretty close to me (5-6 miles according to the map) but I don't believe it's locust either. I'm leaning towards Chinese Elm. Thanks for the heads up but I have a small mountain of wood to process right now.
I don't think it's locust either. I really didnt have a guess until UncleJoe said Chinese elm - I think that's a pretty good guess from what I see.
A lot of people get the Elm family all sorta lumped into one group. Like "pizz elm" or "Chinese Elm". Most have never seen a true Chinese Elm, cause if they did, you sure wouldn't forget it. They look like a birch tree with mange.. lol.. American Elms/ Red elms/ and Siberian Elms are similar, but if it's a standing dead without bark, it's rarely a Siberian, cause they are a noxious weed and you can't hardly kill em. They're pretty ugly too. But impervious to Dutch Elm disease. Red Elms are awesome firewood, and American Elms are the nicest looking trees, but just don't live long, as something usually kills em' inside 30 years. I've seen Siberians here over 100 years old. Not native, but planted by settlers. This one finally died at about 105 years old. Wow.. That's an old picture.. Wouldn't recognize that kid today.. Yeah. I like Elm trees.
Now I had a hard time getting the boy to sit still in the chair. How in the world did you get 5 dogs to sit still??!! Lol.. Love that picture...
Elm is good stuff, especially American elm. It's no fun to split, but get being that with hydro's, and its nice plentiful wood that burns very well. Dead standing American elm got me through a couple years of burning and is allowing me to get ahead.
I've always stayed away from Elm in the past until last year. Someone close to me had a huge branch crash down into their yard off their bog ole dead Elm. My dad thought it might be Oak so I went over to offer some help. They were very glad to have someone come and offer to take it but when I looked close at it I saw my dad was wrong, it was Eml. I couldn't say no so I took it anyway. I'll say, I've seen lots of firewood that weighs more but none that burn better than the stuff that was rock hard and thoroughly dried out. I use to think getting 6 hours on a burn was good. I loaded this Eml in at 4am and went to work. Came home at 7pm and there were plenty of coals to just throw more on and let it go. I've never seen anything like that. Now if someone could just get that big ole Eml down I'll take the rest of it. Too bad it's so close to the house and no way to drop it the other direction because of all the trees. That's about an 80' tree waiting to come down with a minimum diameter of 30" Last week I got another Eml branch off my son in laws tree. Not American Eml, this one is Siberian. Stinks like you wouldn't believe but the wood seems hard and heavy. I'll be curious to see how it dries out and burns. I hope it's good because there are a lot of these things around here.
