Cut a load of barkless dead elm.

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Bwhunter85

Feeling the Heat
Aug 21, 2010
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Sunfield, MI
Nice load of dry, barkless dead elm.

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Very nice. Never found anything as dry fresh cut as barkless elm. Still burning some myself. Between 15-17% when I first cut it. Not the highest btu's but for ready to burn wood .........
 
I cut down 6 trees just like that and they were 18% of less when measured warm. I split the other ones for next winter and a bit stringey but no worse than some other stuff
 
F@#%ing elm.
Elm got me through my first winter of burning without much hassels (because it wasn't wet oak many get suckered into buying). I did mix it with sub par oak during the really cold spells. It cranked heat nice while the last couple percent was evaporated out of the oak!! I do have a hydro splitter though so I don't mind its twisted stringy nature. If its free its for me!!

Nice looking load Bwhunter! I'd take that stuff all day long!!
 
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I heat my house mostly with the same stuff. Nice, dry and ready to throw in the outdoor furnace. The barkless elm splits good for me when I need to split it if I have a large tree.
 
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Man why did you have to remind of my load of elm that's waiting for me to split.By hand of course.Whew!
 
Nice score can't beat wood like that.
 
Elm was my excuse to get a DHT 27 ton splitter. My neighbor and I just split 2 cords of assorted sugar maple and oak in about 2 hours today. Would have taken us 2 weeks without the splitter.
Mine has chewed through everything I've thrown at it! 22"+ gnarly oak and knotty elm were a blink, not even so much as a hiccup(and maybe a burp:eek:) grumbling is that all you got.:) Well worth every penny I paid for it!
 
My neighbor and I have a deal for sharing his splitter, which is awesome, but yeah dead elm is night and day difference to green.
 
Great score :cool:. I had some dumped off at my house earlier this year....was supposedly dead standing, and what did have bark, got nekked as it was being split....what a mess. I tried burning some of it 4 months later, not good results, maybe next year. Anyhow, hope you have a splitter.....my wood guy wouldn't drop the load off unless I had a splitter...that stuff is tough.
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