Another load of bone dry elm!

Nice score......

Looks good. And looks kind of aged/dry, too. I'm going to get some 'seconds' on some red elm in the morning. Which means what is left after the first guy took most of it. And this probably means it will be the bigger rounds that are left. Oh well, where I'm at in Idaho elm is one of the few 'hard' hardwoods available. So I'll take elm even if I have to work a little bit for it. This isn't the mid west or east coast.

Nice, idea of Mc?

Looks like it's dry and should be easy to work with. I made an 8" mantel out of some red Elm and burnt quite a bit of it several years ago. I'm jealous. I'd like to have some more.

I wouldn't split those and use them as all nighters

These pictures are haunting me.......
I had a couple elm come off a fence line last summer that I bucked. They looked to be the same state as yours. Nice and dry. Now the bad part, each round took multiple whacks with the 8lb maul and then many more hits on the maul from an 8lb sledge. Without a word of a lie some of my rounds took 15-20 hits to break open. Crazy stuff.

DuckDog, that is because the elm was grown in a fence line. Mother Nature with her wind has a tendency to make those trees a twisted mess.


However, Bwhunter looks like he has some great elm. That is pretty much how ours looks as we wait until the tree has been dead long enough that the bark has fallen or most of it at least. Those type will split with a splitting maul and most of the time they will split easy.

I can hear them "clink" when you hit them together just from looking at the picture. Nice!

I agree on the "leaving them whole" part as mentioned by blujacket........those babies look like they are ready for the stove!
good 'overnighters' right there.

Dry elm is great wood. It gets a bad reputation because it has to be bone dry or it just smokes and stinks.

I definitely would leave those alone...keep'em whole like they are Great overnight burns. Maybe even bring in the house

Backwoods Savage said:

DuckDog, that is because the elm was grown in a fence line. Mother Nature with her wind has a tendency to make those trees a twisted mess.

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I have no idea.
Like every other elm in my neck of the woods it was killed by Dutch Elm Disease. Not sure if that plays into it at all either.

DuckDog said:

I have no idea.
Like every other elm in my neck of the woods it was killed by Dutch Elm Disease. Not sure if that plays into it at all either.

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Only way it plays into it is that they usually die before they get much size.

Backwoods Savage said:

Only way it plays into it is that they usually die before they get much size.

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Yep, usually. Except that bastard red elm my brother drug home, almost 4 foot across and sure doesnt want to split even under hydrolics. We got about three rounds busted up and he has t touched them since. About another 12 biggies to go!

Nice load
Noticed how clean it is to handle with no bark, another good benefit

DuckDog said:

Without a word of a lie some of my rounds took 15-20 hits to break open. Crazy stuff.

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I get considerately humbled every time I try to work elm. Invented new cuss words and resorted to noodling many times. Still love how it burns