A score to make a Prairie Dog perk up!

You will get through it in fine shape. That’s an awesome score. I’d be as happy as a beagle at Easter with a elm score like that. You will like the way it burns and heats

 

My splitter made quick work of it. I was impressed with how dense the wood is, it has a nice solid feel to it. You can just tell it's going to crank out the heat in the dead of winter.

 

Oh it does and makes a nice hot bed of coals as well!

 

almost looks like you tried to make a holz hausen with the lengths. Never seen a PU loaded that way. Mebbe ill try it that way next time!

 

The wood was all cut every which length by the homeowner. On the very bottom I put a few 4 foot log lengths, then I put all the rounds on top of that standing up. Some were firewood length, then the longer ones ended up going in the back by the tailgate. Since I've got the quad cab and my bed is so short, the only way to get a decent amount in one trip is to build skyward

 

Odd lengths are aggravating to say the least. Hey we're hoarders with a mission and find a way, right? Any room in the back seats?

 

Not today LOL. Believe me, I thought of it but jockeying around the kids' car seats for a couple extra sticks wouldn't have been fun. Plus the truck was squatting pretty good as it was... dense wood for sure. I should have gotten a picture from the side. I knew I was pushing things as I got onto the highway. It's going to be a fun ride home later tonight.

 

Have you bucked any of the wood yet? Could try this experiment. In your monster maul pics the end of the log was rather checked. Try splitting from a freshly cut end and see if any difference. IME with all woods its harder, sometimes a lot, to split from a checked end and will store rounds, if im not splitting right away with an end touching the ground just to keep it moist. No need to complete the split in this case, just curious. I noticed this on the BL i was splitting yesterday too.

 

Found a nice standing dead Elm a little ways into the woods yesterday. Got the limb wood cut up and in the Ranger, then used the log arch on the main trunk. Now that the snow is gone I can get into more places to snag these awesome finds.

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I like your "sideboards"!

 

Nice! Elm is great firewood.

Burning some right now actually.

I have noticed that the ash we have leaves a good amount of clinkers. Almost as much as elm.

 

Pics of the log arch. This Red Oak was right by the Red Elm so we got it too.

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I'm heading back for all the smalls/skinnies this upcoming week. I figured if I'm going for Elm, I'm going all in. So elm leaves a lot of clinkers? I got quite a few clinkers this year but since I was almost always burning a mix, I never knew which species was causing them.

 

One small load today from this same coworker that hooked me up almost two years ago. Not stuff I’d normally take (too many skinnies ), but I agreed as more of a favor to the guy so he could get his yard cleaned up. I pitched the smallest diameter stuff right into the woods after unloading. There’s some barkless I could probably burn later this season, some bark-on that I’ll add to my sleeping elm pile, and thrown in are a couple small sticks of mulberry and Bradford pear limbs.

 

I hope you didn't toss any of what your showing us. All of that has a good place in my stove.

 

I've never had clinkers from burning Elm just great hot fires.Elm deserves the work needed to process it.Great Heat !

 

I tossed some of the barkless 1 & 1/2 diameter stuff that was getting punky inside. I have enough of that for my fire pit already.

 

The elm-to-be-split-next-year pile is growing some more. There are plenty of shorties, chunks and skinnies piled up in there that won’t need to be split at all. In the spring when I have more space under cover, I’ll finish processing this and stack it until it sees the stove.

 

I’ve had small clinkers from elm before. Then again, I’ve been burning a mix of black locust, cherry, red oak and maple, and I had clinkers a few days ago from one of those suspects. They don’t bother me.