Load of red elm

I finally got out to do some cutting this morning before the snow comes in tonight. I really like this wood and grab as much as I can when I find it. Most of it is free of bark and what does still have it will fall off while splitting. Both of these was already blown down which caused some problems. We have had a lot of freezing rain here lately and they had about 1/4 of ice on them. Beside being hard to handle, it dulled the chains real quick. If we get what they are calling for this may be my last outing for a while.

 

Nice load of wood you got there today! Can't agree more with you on red elm, really great firewood. Clean, barkless, rot resistant, high BTU's. Splits a little hard if you have to do it by hand though....

 

Awesome score!....good stuff right there

 

I like the barkless dead elm too. Is going to get me to the 3 year plan.

IMHO, the elm dulls chains worse than other wood. It's a small price to pay.

 

That there is a good lookin' load of rounds. Ya gotta make hay while the sun shines, eh? The truck appears up to the task too. Nice catch...

 

That looks like American Elm I think - still great stuff. When its nice and dry and straight like that I've never had a problem splitting it by hand. One hit one split...

 

You lucky guys with your way splitting elm.

 

I like that. Truck full of wood. Makes me miss gathering and cutting. Can't do anything for 10 weeks. Never had elm.

 

Nice! I've never had Elm either.

Firecracker, 10 weeks?

 

I like that. Truck full of wood. Makes me miss gathering and cutting. Can't do anything for 10 weeks. Never had elm.

Yes...I'm a tax accountant, and I'm buried until April 15th. I have lots of firewood split and in unsplit logs. I need to burn this inventory up and then go out with fury in the spring. I'll have leftover from this winter...not 3 years ahead, but maybe 1 year ahead. I bought a truck in the fall. Now, I have everything I need to hoard, except for time at the moment.

 

I've only had red elm once, and wish I saw it more often. It was my first scrounge ever, and I cut up a couple of carloads worth with a Husky 137 that I'd bought before I knew one saw model from another.

I don't know why, but to me red elm smoke just smells the way that wood smoke ought to smell.

 

The best part is there is no brush to deal with. This splits much easier then the white elm being it is pretty much straight grained.
It has a nice blue flame while burning, coals nice and doesn't leave a lot of ash. The first tree has been down a couple of years and the only soft spots were around the stump about 12" from bottom.

 

HJ, You've had a busy couple of days!

 

My wife is a CPA, say no more! Thankfully, she hasn't done taxes in about 10 years, so she no longer has that problem. Good luck, the tax code is sooooooooo screwed up in the country, it's ridiculous.

 

Great stuff. Not much around here left where I cut at.Most died out before the 1990's. Still a few smaller live ones growing hopefully they'll hang around for a few more years.I've only cut 4 dead ones since 2011.Biggest one was just 14" & about 50 ft tall,dropped that one last August.