Elm as Firewood

[18 stoner]

dead standing elm is great IMO...green takes ages to season

 

Eeeh, when i was a lad.................!

 

Yep sure brings back memories, when almost every standing Elm was dead!

 

Burned tons of it back in the day when it was plenty. Goes great but if you are burning on a stove watch out for tarring if you have it closed down a lot!

[Al Smith]

If the elm in England is like the American variety it splits extremely hard . Not a big deal with a hydraulic splitter but a real chore with an axe/maul whatever . About the only way I could ever figured to split it was using steel wedges and an 8 pound sledge hammer .

 

Other than that it burns okay .Maybe a little more ashes than others but it puts out heat which is what you want anyway .

[18 stoner]

If the elm in England is like the American variety it splits extremely hard . Not a big deal with a hydraulic splitter but a real chore with an axe/maul whatever . About the only way I could ever figured to split it was using steel wedges and an 8 pound sledge hammer .

 

Other than that it burns okay .Maybe a little more ashes than others but it puts out heat which is what you want anyway .

 

Nice to hear from you Uncle Al!

 

We have (or had) two common Elms around us, Which Elm and English Elm. One was straight grained and a good splitter when freshly cut, as for the other, well you would get a lot hotter splitting it than burning it!

[matthew65]

Thank you all for your help.

 

Matthew

[Al Smith]

as for the other, well you would get a lot hotter splitting it than burning it!

The English variety and the American most likely then are similar .

 

Of course Dutch elm disease all but wiped them out . They might get 18" to two foot if they are lucky before they die .Which is better than it used to be as they only made it to 6 - 8 inchs .

 

When I was a young lad it was not uncommon to see a 4 footer .