Art Vandelay
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His name is Stihl Sawing, not Stihl Splitting. :msp_sad:
Red Elm
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His name is Stihl Sawing, not Stihl Splitting. :msp_sad:
atvguns
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MY bad
I dunno, Too lazy to hook it up and take it i guess.lol
J.W Younger
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View attachment 179528View attachment 179529Heres my pile for 11-12
I could find neat stuff to do with that grain. with the piece ya shown I have an idea already going through my head. 
I will have to look for some of that if I ever head south of me.
I will have to look for some of that if I ever head south of me.Nice looking grain in that stuff. I went to the woodpile today and took a pic of the elm that grows here. I don't know if this is siberian elm or what. We just call it elm. It ain't red for sure.
This is what happens when you try to split it. You can't touch it with a maul, you'd have to have something bad wrong with you to even try. The whole center is just twisted strings. It's really good firewood though.
looks like piss elm
Blazin
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Nice work guys! You got a nice head start on the heat 
Or Chinese elm.
Dry red elm splits beautifully and isn't stringy. Note that I said dry. Wait until the bark falls off and the ends of the rounds check up. Then split it. She pops beautifully. :cool2:
I split a cord of it today with no strings at all.
It's not even close to being dry, Water is running out of the rounds. I'm gonna split the oak first then try the elm. If it splinters up i will kick it to the side to dry. I did split a couple pieces with the maul and it split good and smooth.
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Knot Bumper
I just read this thread from beginning to end, Great looking wood!
SS you are the MAN, JW thankyou for your service!
SS you are the MAN, JW thankyou for your service!
Blazin
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How's that new Husky SS?
cat-face timber
Knot Bumper
Art Vandelay
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I was considering a 35 ton huskee but TSC only stocks the 22 tons around here now. They seemed to be a good buy for the money when I had seen one before.
J.W Younger
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See that return hose right there on the top of the tank? I musta busted that sucka 14 times on mine in the last 5 years or so.
I thnk the newer models moved it so rounds don't drop and bust it.
I love mine, Glad i got an older model before they cheapened them up. I know they had trouble with the toe bending. Just because they quit using solid steel plate that was inch and a half thick. Never could understand why they did that. Just keep makin em like you used too. You can see my toe plate is solid. It has split or even cut through some nasty sweetgum crotches. Dunno, I just believe if you have a good product, Don't screw it up.
Never busted that one. I see what ya mean though. The only thing i've done was bend the dern valve cover with a nice chunk when it fell.
J.W Younger
ass kissing impaired
Yeah, I'm one of those people that could break an anvil in a sand box.
Blazin
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Found Some More Red Elm
By accident, I found a bunch of almost dry red elm today at a wood drop off site. Tough to identify at first, it looked like it was cut early last summer into 6' lengths. The bark was lying along side of it--nice straggly, thick stuff. What also gave it away were the tight annual rings out near the edge when the tree starts slowing down its growth rate. Cottonwood logs the same size were close by, but you could tell them apart easily because of the much coarser annual ring spacing all the way out to the edge.
My "Sherlock Holmes" venture proved correct. When cross cutting the 18" to 22" dia. logs, the wood was still slightly damp in the center, and redness here and there popped out along the grain. I split some the next day and sure enough, red elm it was--nice and dense, and ready for splitting and final drying. No stringiness at all.
Life is beautiful.
By accident, I found a bunch of almost dry red elm today at a wood drop off site. Tough to identify at first, it looked like it was cut early last summer into 6' lengths. The bark was lying along side of it--nice straggly, thick stuff. What also gave it away were the tight annual rings out near the edge when the tree starts slowing down its growth rate. Cottonwood logs the same size were close by, but you could tell them apart easily because of the much coarser annual ring spacing all the way out to the edge.
My "Sherlock Holmes" venture proved correct. When cross cutting the 18" to 22" dia. logs, the wood was still slightly damp in the center, and redness here and there popped out along the grain. I split some the next day and sure enough, red elm it was--nice and dense, and ready for splitting and final drying. No stringiness at all.
Life is beautiful.
