Well I was asked if I would get rid of the dead Elm tree and of course I could not refuse. Actually it was a good friend's Mother's house that I cut at. Took a few pics. First pic with the tree standing. They were afraid it would blow over into the power lines is the main reason for getting rid of it. This next pic is with the tree on the ground. I had plenty of room to fall it. Used the Frankensaw for all my cutting today. It is so fast I get a kick out of it. The steel cable is what I use for putting tension on the tree when I cut it down. The Stump after I flush cut it. You can run a lawn mower over it and I do not think it would hit. And last is the load I kept for my firewood hoard. I have actually been able to get a lot of elm this year so far.
I was able to use the same chain for the entire cutting. When I cut the stump I got about 3/4 of the way thru and had to stop and sharpen the chain. I used a battery operated dremel with a diamond coated stone to sharpen it. So all in all it went pretty good.
Are you talking about Chinese elm? or that's what I learned it is called. Not a pleasant odor when cut green. A bit of that odor when it burns. Leaves a lot of ash....but, will smolder all night and there will be a nice coal to start the fire in the morning. Plenty of it to be had around here.
I think most of what I see around here is Siberian Elm, and it does not smell very good when cut. After it dries out then I do not get any odor from it. There seems to be a lot of it around here also. I have not seen any Chinese Elm trees here. Talk about leaving a lot of ash burn some cotton wood.
Nice work! I hate working around lines - always a cheek clenching experience! "Chinese" elm bark is very distinctive.
Thanks for the pic Shawn. That is the distinctive look of Chinese Elm for sure. I have never seen any around here. As far as the power lines that is why I attached my winch to it for safety reasons.
I have a lot of it available because of Dutch Elm Disease. It will loose bark and stand for yrs drying. The limb wood will be quite dry and I burn it in my stove, the bigger chunks go into a furnace at dad's or a boiler at my brothers. We don't split much because it can be a real bugger.......stringy stuff! I don't find that it leaves me with any more ashes than Oak or Hickory etc. Sent from my SM-S320VL using Tapatalk
Well there is not a lot of hard woods around here so my other choice is Cottonwood. So which one would you use.
Nice work! Elm really is pretty good burning wood. Where you're at, any hardwood is a really good thing. Just make sure to get the hydraulics out to split it.
Oh yea I have a hydraulic splitter for this stuff and sometimes I will just break out with a saw and noodle the crap out of it.
Yep, I like elm too. It burns nice, dries great standing in the woods, seems pretty rot resistant, and while stringy, it splits typically pretty straight.
