I milled a bit of Wych Elm

[Forest2Furniture]

Worth it in the end.

Got just over 70 boards in 12' & 9' lengths ranging 16" - 38" wide 1.25" - 2" thick and as I have torn the ligaments in my lower back it wasn't me but my mate moving the boards the 200 yds from tree to truck.

[se7enthdevil]

I thought red elm was the american for the english wych elm

 

no mate, wych elm is ulmus glabra and red elm is ulmus rubra.

 

have you got any lumps left over? i'd happily rough out a bowl blank or two and take a sample at the same time.

[Big Beech]

The biggest wych elm in these parts ain't be know where near that size. 25ft and 24" tops, mind you it was 22 yrs ago I last saw the tree in a field !

[Mortimer Firewood]

We got wych Elms that big round these parts that big there some in a pile in my yard that sort of diameter smells like crap even when dry

[JamesWood]

Looks like wych elm to me. Very similar to stuff i have milled before. Plenty of elm upto 15" in the woods we work. Any bigger and its DED. Smaller stuff we coppice and peel for the bark..