Weekend Scrounge

Scored this wood today; I think it's red elm (feel free to opine). The guy had cut the tree down because he was afraid it was going to fall on his building. Long story short he owns a residential construction company and had one of his employees come in for the day to use the loader to move pieces around for me and load the big heavy stuff into the truck. Don't get much better than that (well I guess they coulda hauled it for me too...) They limbed the whole tree for me and put all the trunk and limbs worth anything into a pile for me ready to buck. Prolly bout 1.5- 2 cord.

lukem said:

Walnut. For sure.

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The layer below the bark is yellow and slippery, which makes me think elm of some variety...

lukem said:

I can see what you are saying, but fresh cut red elm is almost a mahogony color...more red than what is pictured. The bark doesn't have as deep of furrows on red elm either.

Should be able to tell pretty quick when splitting too.

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walnut is easier or harder to split? I thought it looked awful dark; red elm, walnut, whatever its better than pine...

Won't really split worth a darn by hand (very stringy) Siberian elm maybe?

lukem said:

I still don't see elm, but I may be wrong. Got a pic of a split?

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not yet. I tried to bust one open yesterday but I was tired from hauling it all so it was a half @$$ effort. The piece I tried to split was a 8" diameter branch that must of been hanging dead because it is plum dry. I gave it about 4 whacks with an 8# maul and it didn't wanna go. I'll split a piece ASAP and post the picture...

Red or Siberian Elm. The split in the attached photo came in about 13% MC but i had to pound the maul through with a sledge. The wet stuff is going to get the hydraulic treatment...

Backwoods Savage said:

Whatever it is, it is pretty wood.

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Burns nice too...