Found this piece of Elm at the local compost pile. Could not pass it up. In case you are wondering I put a winch on the front of the trailer and winched it up on there. I will use my tractor to take it off.
That’s a beast, what are your plans for cutting/splitting it up? How much firewood do you think you will get out of it?
I am thinking of milling some of it and cutting up some for firewood. It was probably so big that no one else wanted it.
I am sure that it was so big nobody else wanted it. Most people don't have a saw big enough to deal with that.
You've done a service to the compost pile. That thing would have been there until the end of time. Please update the thread when you mill it.. I'd love to see how it looks inside!
Ditto. Post lots of pictures of you cutting that monster up. I've got a dead monster elm I'll be dealing with before too long.
Some of it I will not be able to mill because I do not have a mill big enough for it. But the one end of the trunk I can get.
By the picture you'd think that's the only elm log within a hundred miles! Nice score. Lot of work getting that one into firewood pieces.
So I unloaded the piece of Elm today. I could not lift it with the loader it was just to heavy so I pulled it out with the tractor. I then cut one end off so I could lift it and move it over to some pallets. I will decide later what I am going to do with it.
