Cut a load of barkless dead elm.
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FaithfulWoodsman
Minister of Fire
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 .........
Firefighter938
Feeling the Heat
Sconnie Burner
Feeling the Heat
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!!
lindnova
Feeling the Heat
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.
LocustPocust
Burning Hunk
Pennsyltucky Chris
Minister of Fire
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.
Man why did you have to remind of my load of elm that's waiting for me to split.By hand of course.Whew!
Pennsyltucky Chris
Minister of Fire
How much do you have? If it's a cord or so, rent a splitter for $50 for the day. That's the going rate around here.
heavy hammer
Minister of Fire
I'm not saying it's not decent firewood. It's just a bear to split, if you're splitting by hand. All free wood is good wood.
Sconnie Burner
Feeling the Heat
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
) grumbling is that all you got.
Well worth every penny I paid for it!
FaithfulWoodsman
Minister of Fire
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.
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Beer Belly
Minister of Fire
Great score 
. 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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. 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. - Status
