Elm ok for burning?
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I like Elm, it can be stringy an twisted, But My splitter is equipped with a thin wedge, it slices through rather than using brute force. behind the wedge is a spreader. I seldom have to do any thing with addition tools. You can get into problems with any kind of wood so yes, I have had to resort to a sledge hammer and / or a wedge to free up the splitter. heck one time I had to use the little limbing saw
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I have had some of my hardest work when splitting elm but once it is dry it burns pretty good. My father dropped a larger elm at his place years ago probably 30 inch diameter. He was just going to burn the trunk but I decided to split it. It was only about a 2 truck loads this trunk piece but I worked at it for hours. I had every wedge stuck a rough day but I just would not give in. He just laughed at my stupid determination but it did get split. He even let me take it all home since he said I worked so hard for it. Every time I burned a piece of that elm I remembered that cold rainy crappy day but the wood burned hot. (at least it did in my mind)
