Firewood thread!!! Let's see what you got!!!!

[CrystalRiver1]

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FRANK THE TANK!!
My hats off to you Mate...Helluva Job!!!

 

[CrystalRiver1]

I sold the rest of my for sale pile, even took a row out of my woodshed for the last seasoned cord(it was wood for 22/23 so I'll replace it soon), and cut and split a green cord too.
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Put a few sticks of black locust on a log pile I'll dice up later.

Also added this one.
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Great job!!

 

[krag]

I've been helping people get their wood split up:

I've had a Supersplit, now working with the HD purchased Champion 27 ton splitter.

Only splitting job I ever refused was a pile of elm that my Supersplit was no good on, like kryptonite for it.

 

[Wolverine]

I've been helping people get their wood split up:

I've had a Supersplit, now working with the HD purchased Champion 27 ton splitter.

Only splitting job I ever refused was a pile of elm that my Supersplit was no good on, like kryptonite for it.

Mind if I quote a on that on another site? I have a running list of quotes in my sig line, all elm related. My motto is, elm is only good for re-enriching the soil, so let it rot.

 

[ken morgan]

Mind if I quote a on that on another site? I have a running list of quotes in my sig line, all elm related. My motto is, elm is only good for re-enriching the soil, so let it rot.

Shoot Japanese elm is one of the better for burning…. Stringy as can be but burns nice and long

 

[ElevatorGuy]

Diesel is wondering why no warmth is coming out of the black thing that eats the splits he gets yelled at for eating. I brought 2 bucket loads up this afternoon with the tractor, maybe this weekend.

 

[whitesnake]

Poor guy looks confused haha. Cozy little set up.

 

[CrystalRiver1]

Got permission to ferret through the city woodpile I posted about last week.
Pretty decent haul of white oak, ash, and a little red oak.
Not a huge haul by any means, but considering copius back spasms and no deadline, I'm okay!

 

[dirter]

Took the splitter over to dad and finished his pile.
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Cherry to the left, ash in the center and walnut on the right.
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So your nuts are to the right of your cherry ash?

 

[krag]

Mind if I quote a on that on another site? I have a running list of quotes in my sig line, all elm related. My motto is, elm is only good for re-enriching the soil, so let it rot.

Sure...always check your wood stove if putting elm in to make sure the fire hasn't frozen up!

 

[krag]

Shoot Japanese elm is one of the better for burning…. Stringy as can be but burns nice and long

The American elm is a great tree when not dying, graceful and beautiful canopy, adds so much to the landscape. When we start importing things into the US, the likelihood of uncontrolled infections in trees becomes a big problem.

 

[KS Plainsman]

Been a little while since I've been on here. Been busier than all get out. Here's a couple hours worth of my time. Pretty sure the stuff with bark is elm and the stuff without bark may be as well, but I'm not sure. Actually, I'm not sure if the tree with bark is elm, but we don't have a ton of variety in town here, so most is either a elm species, or locust, which I know it's not.

 

[Nutball]

Probably is Elm if it isn't some sort of Maple, but I'm leaning toward maple because of how the dry dead stuff looks, and the even color throughout the cross cut.

 

[KS Plainsman]

Probably is Elm if it isn't some sort of Maple, but I'm leaning toward maple because of how the dry dead stuff looks, and the even color throughout the cross cut.

Interesting. Maybe I should post it over in the wood ID thread and see what the consensus is. I'm not good at ID'ing trees, unless it's locust.

 

[Wolverine]

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Been a little while since I've been on here. Been busier than all get out. Here's a couple hours worth of my time. Pretty sure the stuff with bark is elm and the stuff without bark may be as well, but I'm not sure. Actually, I'm not sure if the tree with bark is elm, but we don't have a ton of variety in town here, so most is either a elm species, or locust, which I know it's not.

Try to split a piece. You'll know if it's elm pretty quick.

 

[KS Plainsman]

Try to split a piece. You'll know if it's elm pretty quick.

I'll be attacking the stuff with bark in the next couple weeks, but it's way too wet at the moment.

 

[krag]

Today, I was doing a splitting job for a customer, enough elm to be a royal pita! A 27 ton splitter could not get through most of it. I cut some of the logs in half with a powerful saw, then split some of it. A sinewy mess trying to plow through this crappy wood!

I will have to talk to the customer and see if they want more of the American elm split. Elm has other purposes, but firewood is not its strong point to put it mildly.

 

[Wolverine]

Today, I was doing a splitting job for a customer, enough elm to be a royal pita! A 27 ton splitter could not get through most of it. I cut some of the logs in half with a powerful saw, then split some of it. A sinewy mess trying to plow through this crappy wood!

I will have to talk to the customer and see if they want more of the American elm split. Elm has other purposes, but firewood is not its strong point to put it mildly.

Agreed 100%.

 

[Nutball]

Drop off your Elm at my house, I'll split it.

 

[KS Plainsman]

Today, I was doing a splitting job for a customer, enough elm to be a royal pita! A 27 ton splitter could not get through most of it. I cut some of the logs in half with a powerful saw, then split some of it. A sinewy mess trying to plow through this crappy wood!

I will have to talk to the customer and see if they want more of the American elm split. Elm has other purposes, but firewood is not its strong point to put it mildly.

It's all subjective I think. For people who are used to beautiful hardwoods and 30 ton log splitters, elm may be a pain, but I split around 10 cord by hand, every year and have done so for many years. It's a mostly locust and elm, with some different species scattered in there and I do just fine. Sure, there's some pieces I chainsaw into chunks, because they don't split, but that happens with every species I've ever split. Knots and Y's just don't split good.

I guess my point is, what's hard and a PITA for some, is not so for others. We all have different thresholds as far as what we will tolerate and what we won't. Where I am, we aren't surrounded by millions of acres of hardwoods, so I take what I can get. Also, a lot of the wood I get is from helping out older folks who are on fixed incomes and can't afford tree companies, so I help them out.

Heck, last year I heated my house all winter on cottonwood and I was never cold. Not even the 10 days of single digit highs and negative overnight temps, cottonwood kept the place nice and toasty. I used it because an old lady wanted it cut down and it's what I had ready to burn and most wouldn't even start their vehicle to pick up cottonwood, let alone process it.

Here's some pieces I split off of the stuff with bark. It split better than I was expecting, but it was the trunk with no knots.