15 year old Standing Dead Elm

This tree has been standing dead for 15 years, latest wind finally knocked her down, good firewood score.

Great score, dead elm is one of my favorites to burn. It burns nice and HOT!!!

Kyle

That'll burn !! I just cut a large dead standing bur oak, has been keeping us warm for 3 weeks now!

Looks like some good wood. I like it when they stand dead long enough for all the bark to be off, less mess when you split and haul it in. Good score!!!

Love them when they are barkless like that.

Cutting pal calls em "bonewood" from appearances or "yuppiewood" because so well seasoned and so easy to keep stoves running with, when both high powered professional parents get home from work.

Have fun splitting it.

Red elm is not bad to split.. It is the American Elm that splits like heck.

elm burns great * but burns ~fast~

ericjeeper said:

Red elm is not bad to split.. It is the American Elm that splits like heck.

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You called it.That's Red Elm.I have cut and sold/burned the same day.Splits with an axe.

ericjeeper said:

Red elm is not bad to split.. It is the American Elm that splits like heck.

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You must be right, cause it pops right open (by hand), didn't know what kind of elm it was, but I love it. 65 feet of 20 inche diameter and bigger.

Good score buy the looks of the rounds it was a good size tree. I love burning elm , I must have two cords in the basement right now with about a cord left to split outside.

Beefie

P.S. sent a little rep your way:hmm3grin2orange:

Nice smell, too.

tons of it dead around here from dutch elm disease. Every hedge row and field edge has several unless they have already been cleared out. Great to go find one or two when the snow starts piling up and bring it home on the sled. Dont have to go treking through the woods.

Hauling it off.. had 5 loads like this....nice....

Nice score!
From your avatar I take it you're in the bloomignton area?

when the dutch elm disease went through here, the govn't paid the farmers by the tree to slash and burn all their trees, like $5 a tree. a few years later the farmers where buying logs because they had burnt all their elm. how retarded was that

carpenter383 said:

Nice score!
From your avatar I take it you're in the bloomignton area?

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Nope, near Princeton, in a little town called Patoka.

I felled a 24"DBH dead standing Red Elm last spring. Like yours, all the bark was off. I ended up with a short 4 cords that went straight from the splitter to the woodshed. It has been keeping us warm so far but, once in a while I do hear a little sizzle when I throw in a piece from the lower part of the trunk.

woodfarmer said:

when the dutch elm disease went through here, the govn't paid the farmers by the tree to slash and burn all their trees, like $5 a tree. a few years later the farmers where buying logs because they had burnt all their elm. how retarded was that

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hey, retarded is what government _does_.


reminds me that i've got an elm to clean up from a year ago...should be getting splittable now.

red elm--don't think i've had the pleasure.

Around here we call those "slippery elms" I guess because of the bark slipping off them? They are a hotspot for mushroom hunting