Don't want to be nosy but how do you know what your wood weighs? Do you burn buy the weight? Or do you sell it by the weight?I just brought in 1,900 lb of elm today--all from condemned trees. Elm make's fabulous firewood, but you will need to buy or build a log splitter. I wager that elm has sold more powered log splitters than any other wood species in the entire world.
That's my estimate, but it's usually pretty accurate because I have filled my truck about 300 times in ten years. I also know the volume of a cab-high truckload, and based on the average weight of the species and whether or not it is loaded green or dry, I can usually get to within 100 pounds or so.
I thought about that, but a lot of it is freshly cut. Perhaps next year.
Of the elms, I think red elm might be the easiest to spilt by hand, followed by Chinese and then American, none of which is really easy. The crotchwood is just plain miserable to hand split, and elm has lots of branches. One of my friends had a standing rule to never cut elm logs that needed splitting longer than 12".I love burning elm myself, but I sure hate splitting it. I have a little bit right now that has sat for a little over 4 months, and I keep coming up with better wood to split, avoiding the taks of getting on that elm. I guess I need a bigger shop stove, that way I can just stuff the rounds in whole
