Quite a load. Hopefully you don't regret it as much as me filling my truck with Sycamore a few months back.
Noooooo! Not the dump! Risk the ridicule and at least put it by the street with a craigslist ad. Someone will appreciate it more than the landfill will!Never again will I split white elm, stringy stuff, only split about half that load, I'm hauling all the crotches and junk wood to the dump tomorrow. Not fighting that anymore.
At least all my splits come with their own kindling
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Noooooo! Not the dump! Risk the ridicule and at least put it by the street with a craigslist ad. Someone will appreciate it more than the landfill will!
You may forgive yourself for bringing this home, when you see it burn. Elm sucks to split, but it does burn nice. Blue flame, almost like a gas stove.Never again will I split white elm, stringy stuff, only split about half that load, I'm hauling all the crotches and junk wood to the dump tomorrow. Not fighting that anymore.
At least all my splits come with their own kindling
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I was never all that impressed with the heat output of it. I found it to be about like ash for heat output. Not worth it to split for that I wont bring any home again.You may forgive yourself for bringing this home, when you see it burn. Elm sucks to split, but it does burn nice. Blue flame, almost like a gas stove.
It was free, it was cut, and it was loaded for me, all i have to do is cut some longer pieces down and split it all.
White Elm
Never again will I split white elm, stringy stuff, only split about half that load, I'm hauling all the crotches and junk wood to the dump tomorrow. Not fighting that anymore.
At least all my splits come with their own kindling
Yep. I split some now and then that has been dead standing for a while and you would almost say it's not elm by how easily it can split. It doesn't fly apart like ash, but only a couple more whacks and that's it. I'd toss it to the side for a year or two and let mother nature take the edge off.Stack it in the sun and use it for campfire wood. I did this with my elm..we had 5 trailer loads your size.
It splits easier if you let it sit a year. The bark will fall off