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Red Elm?

Post in 'The Wood Shed' started by timusp40, Nov 12, 2012.

  1. timusp40 Burning Hunk

    joined: Feb 3, 2010
    232 posts
    Lake Orion, Michigan
    It was free, so I grabbed it up. Split pretty easy too. Is it Red Elm or what do you guess?
    Take care,
    Tim
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  2. Bocefus78 Feeling the Heat

    joined: Jul 27, 2010
    465 posts
    Just Outside Indy
    Mulberry. Edit: I agree, bark isnt mulberry. Only elms I have ever cut didnt have bark. Guess Im no help.
  3. Ash_403 New Member

    joined: Jun 14, 2011
    97 posts
    Indiana
    Is the bark kind of soft and flakes fairly easily?
    The bark just doesn't look quite right to be Mulberry. Larger Red Elm does have deeper furrows in the bark though.

    It does look very much like the cord of Red Elm that I cut, split, and stacked early this year.

    Do you have any more pictures?
  4. bogydave Minister of Fire

    joined: Dec 4, 2009
    7,746 posts
    So Cent ALASKA
    Don't know what it is.
    But it's BTUs & it's free.
    Nice score for sure.
  5. blwncrewchief Member

    joined: Aug 30, 2011
    141 posts
    Northern, IN
    Looks like it could be red elm. If it is it should have almost a cinnamon smell to it when green, very distinctive. Also when green if you knock a piece of bark off it should be almost slimy and very slippery under the bark. If it is an elm it almost has to be red as that usually splits beautifully for me as oppose to the rest of the elms.
  6. TimJ Minister of Fire

    joined: Apr 10, 2012
    1,028 posts
    Southeast Indiana
    Bark does not look right to be red elm
  7. Thistle Minister of Fire

    joined: Dec 16, 2010
    3,903 posts
    Central IA
    Siberian Elm,most of it splits fairly easily.That has a slight scent,not as pleasant as Red/Slippery Elm though.End grain looks a little like Mulberry but the bark is a bit different.Different color side grain than Mulberry also.
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  8. Standingdead Member

    joined: Oct 8, 2012
    94 posts
    Burnt Hills NY
    Wow, I have never seen Siberian or red elm or whatever this wood is. I think my wife would kill to get a slab of that tree for a mud room bench she's been hounding me for :)
  9. Bacffin Feeling the Heat

    The bark looks like Red Norway Pine, but I do not know what the inside of one looks like. Is it heavy?
  10. buckdog Member

    joined: Sep 23, 2009
    36 posts
    ortonville, mi
    I haven't seen elm around here in years. Elm is a bear to split and grain is twisted, it don'split striaght. Also stinks really bad when burning. Dutch elm disease took out all elm trees about 10-15 years ago.

    What you got is cherry. Splits easy and burns good.
  11. nrford Minister of Fire

    joined: Feb 26, 2011
    649 posts
    NW lower Mi.
    I can agree with Siberian Elm, Bark not quite like any Red Elm I have seen from around here. And no way is that cherry as ^^^ previous poster suggests.
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  12. geoxman Feeling the Heat

    joined: Jan 26, 2010
    275 posts
    STL City
    How yellow/orange is the wood? I say Hedge and if it is then you did good
  13. timusp40 Burning Hunk

    joined: Feb 3, 2010
    232 posts
    Lake Orion, Michigan
    Thanks for all the educated guesses everyone. I split it all and put it in the stacks. Will see how the BTUS are in a couple of years.
    Take care,
    Tim

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