Chinese elm worth keeping?

[warno]

I'm getting a Chinese elm taken down on my property this week is the wood worth keeping? I mean I know it's BTUs but is it any good?

 

[claydogg84]

It's mediocre just like American Elm, but much easier to split. I would keep it.

 

[fespo]

Burn it !

 

[AirForcePOL]

I burnt a lot last year and I still have some left. It burns ok, it's no Oak that's for sure!

 

[jeff_t]

Is it really Chinese elm? Or Siberian elm? Lots of folks call it Chinese elm when it isn't.

 

[warno]

I'm just going off of what the tree cutter told me. I looked up pics of it, it looked like he was right.

 

[HisTreeNut]

I'd keep it and burn it. It's free wood, ok btu's, and it's free wood. Should work well in shoulder seasons or mixing with hardwoods, right?

 

[AirForcePOL]

Oh yea, keep it for sure! Especially if it's already at your house! It's great for shoulder seasons.

 

[blades]

Dries out in about a year css that is - good shoulder season or later. In my book better than Box Elder or Silver maple although I do not turn down either of those. Any thing in deciduous types of wood below Silver maple on the btu charts I can afford to pass by as I have enough just from my own lot. I also stay away from conifers as again have a bunch of my own so no sense chasing that.

 

[warno]

Well the tree is down. I have a pile of brush about 15' X 10' X 15' and a 12' X 7' X 4' trailer full of cut to length wood headed to my dad's pile right now. With another trailer load and a half on the ground still. We'll get it C/S/S in the near future to dry this wet stuff out. The stump is still standing about 8 feet high with a steady flow of sap dripping from it.