Price of elm per tonne ?

[MattyF]

Have been asked to thin out some elm woodland along with ash and beech, but getting stuck on the elm .... It's bigger than the normal hedge row crap 9 - 14 dbh but never sold any , I'm guessing it's worth less than the ash and beech because of the high moisture ?

[Hodge]

Mixed hard wood mate, sell it at a good price, I wouldnt say it's worth less, I paid 41 pound roadside last time I got 26 tonne of mixed hard wood, ash,syc,oak,birch,elm.

[Stereo]

Elm is a lovely firewood. No problem with moisture if split.

[Hodge]

Elm is a lovely firewood. No problem with moisture if split.

 

Elm, Awesome Firewood

[face cord]

I still rememeber the dutch elm disease firewood glut that kept us in firewood for yrs, its great firewood. I didn't realize there was hardly any elm left alive, they were wiped out round here & any remaining elm suckers seem to die when they get over a certain size.

[likeitorlumpit]

are you sure its not dead standing

We come across it

[MattyF]

I'll post some pics I'm gonna have a drive around in sat morn hopefully, they are very much alive and growing .... They seem to be out growing some of there replacment planted trees and there is a few original undead elm trees scattered around as well, it is quite a sight as usually they die off around 6-12"dbh around here.. If we can get normal hardwood prices for it then it makes the job worth doing.

[Crazy_Bull]

If they are a resistant strain then might be worth taking cuttings from them and growing them on, as i know a firm in Essex was selling cuttings from 'survivors' at mega money.

[Peter]

Apparently there are resistant trees in fowlmere.

[agg221]

There are resistant trees round here too. I suspect it's something to do with hybridization with the Plot elm, which results in more fertile seed and hence more genetic diversity than in areas where elm was mostly struck from suckers.

 

To be definitive that a particular tree is resistant needs lab-based exposure tests which are expensive, but you can make an educated guess that a large tree in an area full of standing dead small ones has had a statistically high likelihood of exposure, so resistance is likely.

 

Cuttings are easy - the firm in Essex started their programme in conjunction with the former conservation officer for Braintree, who retired a year or so back. We had a chat about it before he went - take the cuttings in June, that year's growth only, trim the leaves back to half length and make sure none are touching the soil, put them in a ring around the edge of a pot filled with 50:50 compost and sharp sand and close them up in a clear plastic bag to keep the moisture content up. If you can give them bottom heat then good, but if not a warm windowsill is fine. Take them out in winter and pot up the ones which have rooted, plant out a year later. Hope for a 50% success rate.

 

Alec