066blaster
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Nice tall tree, bark just starting to come off. muddy as heck on the woods ,I might have to wait for the ground to freeze to get the rest.
Cut a red elm
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Nice tall tree, bark just starting to come off. muddy as heck on the woods ,I might have to wait for the ground to freeze to get the rest.
benp
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Holy cow!!
Awesome!!
Awesome!!
sunfish
Fish Head
Nice! I love red elm.
066blaster
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I'm splitting it nice ,just in case I want to sell it . I think I will get 4 face cords out of it.
Looks good! For elm that one is behaving nicely!!!
Lander
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I love elm, it is fun to split by hand.
sunfish
Fish Head
Red Elm is good stuff. I leave the other Elms in the woods to rot.
You snob lol!
All we have is American elm. Lots of them from 12" and down in clay soil areas.
sunfish
Fish Head
Too bad red elm is getting so rare. I cut about 3 tons of it this year and wish I could find more. Dutch Elm disease dang near wiped it out in these parts. One of them was 75 years old. I noodle cut those rounds into fourths with my Stihl 046 Mag. Only then could I load the pieces onto my truck.
@MustangMike and I dropped a big red elm at a charity cut for the children's camp with his 046. Must have been 30" at the base. I came back and worked down to the fork with my 562 then 2186 in the trunk. Next time I'm out there I'll rent a splitter and turn it into firewood.
066blaster
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We don't have many left in our woods. it is one of my favorite species for firewood.
Today I found a truckload of red elm from a small farmer who said the tree was knocked down in June. It was standing dead for three years. Dry as a bone, it was a good find but a bear to split. Sometimes they split nicely and other times they are a gorilla.
Full Chisel
Slingin' Stihls and runnin' Huskies
Nice score, that's some good looking elm!
