Your loss, been burning Elm for well over 30 years and it is good wood. I have a splitter also but I dont like splitting it green, stringy to say the least.
Cuz if you cut it before it goes dormant it will bleed sap and water like a stuck hog. Last one I dumped this fall before winter pizzed out so much my shirt sleeves and saw were soaked.
After all the b.s. processing it, when the burn was through it left pretty solid "bricks" of ash. Had to break them up with a poker to get them to go through my shaker grates. Not worth the hassle to me, personal preference I guess.
Well, I kinda got the feeling you cat's weren't too interested in coming on over to assist, so I went in to the garage and snatched up the maul, eased over to those elm rounds, and went ahead and split 'em all up......
Never had a problem if it was dry, used to put elm rounds that just barely fit in the door when I went to work and all that was in the stove when I got home was ash. Been burning some red elm that burns up to light fluffy ash also.
Can't find the article about the name, it probably was incorrect though, it was an old article that said some workers were clearing farm ground and when discovered it was Elm he stated "oh pizz-Elm. Like I said it's probably wrong. I guess Elm only stinks bad when burnt wet, I have never thought it smelled bad.
Well, I gotta say, this particular tree split up real nice....almost easy. A couple crotch pieces were a little cantankerous, but the majority split up real good. Not a bad day's work for a 57 year old coot.
Is that type of Elm known to split easier then the others, I had some red Elm that was dead for a long time that I could not hardly put a dent in it.
I don't know oldspark, this was standing dead stuff, I dropped it this morning, bucked it up, most of the bark fell off all of it. Don't understand it. I intended to go out and split up a couple rounds and then give up til I got my splitter out. But it started going real good. Didn't even use a sledge, or wedge, just the maul.
My grandfathers favorite saying was " Harder than a pizz elum club" Yep it was pronounced el-um! Gary
Anse, Nice looking splits, can you share the stack pics when your done too? Great couple days to be out getting firewood.
I always thought elm was called that because American Elm around here when split green, smells like horse pizz.
Knew right away what that wood was as we've cut lots and lots of it. Good for you splitting it like that. Here is one I came across a couple days ago. It had blew over during that bad wind we had and I had to cut it to get to where I planned on going. It will be great firewood.
