Nice one indeed. I love finding them standing with little to no bark. The limb wood is ready to burn. I take all the smaller limb wood for my stove and the bigger chunks go right into an outdoor boiler at my parents or brothers. If we can throw em in the boiler, they usually dont get split. As you guys know, it can be tough and stringy stuff..... Sent from my SM-G930VL using Tapatalk
Here is a pic of some small diamei elm I cut green in February. Our hot low humidity summer has dried it out nicely.
My back aches just thinking about splitting while sitting on a log and leaning forward. I know some of you guys love it but it doesn’t work for me. Different strokes for different folks. The elm doesn’t look to be too stringy
Hey Tim It's an Ohio Steel swiveling dump cart. Ohio Steel Swiveling Poly Dump Cart 1,000-Lb. Capacity, Model# 1000P-SD | Northern Tool We got ours at TSC Great cart, very durable
I have a (warranty) spare tub in my garage for a brinly trailer that was taken from mom's. I guess i should build a cart to fit the tub.
It depends on the height. I know of more than one who tried it once and at one level then stopped; did not try a different height. For me, I'd really hate to have to stand their and lift logs. Neither my back nor my legs could take that. That is pure Hel!
Northeastern elm is long gone from streets in cities, suburbs, rural areas. Few villages like Castine, Maine can afford to innoculate their elms; expensive. Over 50 elms have metal numbers tacked on. When the Dutch disease was killing them back in the 70's and before, the regs in most areas in N.E. was to take them down and burn them in dumps ( errrr..."Sanitary Landfills" ). We'd get highway dept elm logs for firewood dumped in the yard. Some were over 30" DBH. I was a virgin wood burner then. The guys got a fat kick of me trying to hand split them even with a sharpened Sotz maul. That was until a local logger showed me how to slab elm. Your midwestern dead standing elms sound fine for firewood IF hydraulic split. We haven't seen firewood elm here for decades. BTW- my fav sculptor, Henry Moore, did his large nudes in elm. New career for you Dennis ?
We had the dutch elm disease in the 50's here. Of course they did in the cities here like they did there. However nothing was done in the country except for what the farmers cut to heat their homes. How about that? This is where I gained my experience with using elm for firewood!
The Dutch Elm disease is responsible for the introduction of the SE model Supersplit. SE standing for Special Edition. It had a larger engine with a gear reduction, and heavier flywheels. You hardly ever see them though. I'd say 95% of Supersplit owners are running standard J models. They also offer an in between model the HD (Heavy Duty).
There's a huge demand for old bodies for art modeling Dennis. The money is good. The poses can be tough when nude however. Imagine !
