Intheswamp said:Backwoods Savage said:Strange as it may seem, we used to burn even more elm than we do now.....before we got the hydraulic splitter. Most of it was no big problem though. We just accepted that it split harder but after we learned that there is a time to cut elm and a time to not cut, we turned out very well.
Dennis, not that I will be seeking out elm in the near (or distant) future, out of curiosity when *is* a good time to cut elm?
Ed
Don't know about the time to cut elm . . . but the time to split elm . . . if you're doing it by hand . . . is when it has been dead for a few years . . . my experience has been that when the bark is off the tree and you cut it and then split it you will find it splits easier than cutting a fresh cut elm and attempting to split it.