Nice looking split you have there. When I cut and split the mountain of free elm I got from a dead standing removal in the cemetery right next to my property, my son got alot to split like that. Everything I split was stringy, or brittle, almost punky.
Yeah, sometimes elm splits pretty nicely. If it was already barkless and dead standing for a while before you got it, it can be pretty easy to split. Now when you see a knot or a branch, then you might have trouble and I tend to cut those out when I'm cutting up a tree into rounds. The chunks burn nicely, although they usually don't stack well.
