Big shout out to the Red Elm!!!

Don't burn this stuff. Red Elm is terrible. There are clinkers in there that you would not believe. Red Elm is some great Heat!!!!
But what the stuff it leaves behind is some BS that doesn't "go away"

 

I haven’t had the pleasure of burning red elm yet, only American. I’ve heard red elm is a little better than American elm for firewood. The clinkers don’t bother me. Actually oddly enough I've been getting clinkers this year from burning sassafras and cherry together.

 

I've heard others talk about the clinkers left behind after burning Red Elm..
I have burned a lot of it in my Pacific Energy stove and have not had any clinker issues.

 

Oh, I'm sure it is different in other parts of the country. But here in the Dakotas, it's seems the "Elms" are full of metal

 

I love the heat from the Red Elm, too! That heat will be needed this next week, I think...
Wood Wolverine has mentioned the clinkers, too, I believe. He is in Pennsylvania.

 

I posted this 5 years ago. I'm not sure which kind elm, but what I have burned on 2 separate occasions both left terrible clinkers. Let me dig up the post where I got the one, I believe I posted a leaf pic for ID.


Might need to add a line to my sig...

 

Here they are:



As it was, I got a lot of wood at this score and took the tree because I was clearing a lot for a friend. Glad it was only one!

 

I've had clinkers from elm, oak, and ash... probably some others too, but only those 3 come to mind right now.

 

The clinkers seem to vary on location and if the barks on or not in my experience. Either way I love elm.

 

I love Elm that was barkless and standing dead when cut. The limb wood (bowling pins) is one of my favorites.

 

That had to be heavy!

 

I'm finding elm and black locust make a good combination. The elm burns faster and burns down the coals from the previous load, with the black locust leaving coals behind to start the next load.

 

I don’t remember it being unusually heavy. I got it at the same place I hoarded a ton of shagbark hickory. Not too many woods are more dense than that in my experience.

Looks like it was American elm.

 

It's regional. Like terroir for grapes to make wine. I get clinkers from box elder.

 

Someone in here mentioned it’s probably from the minerals in the ground being drawn up into the wood. I’ve only had clinkers from elm. No other species has produced them in my firebox.

 

That, and the following scene cracks me up for some reason

 

I know I've mentioned that.

 

Elm is good stuff here in the Dakotas. But man, we must have a lot of surface metal in our ground here!!