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Yeah I know what you mean I have also tryed growing cuttings from a ulmus procera tree to clone that which is also local to me only a young tree which originally came from this website which they have now sold out. Iv tryed cuttings 3 separate times with no look they start to grow leaves and look like there doing well then die off and there are no roots started when I look at them. I contacted the site and all the trees they have sold didn't come from cuttings they were grew in a lab which is called tissue culture. Here's the site https://kingco.co.uk/trees/elm-trees-ulmus-species

Not sure I'll have to measure but at a guess about 28-30" diamiter at about 3ft up from ground.

No don't live in a isolated area I'm at chesterfield I'm guessing the tree was young when the main DED affected the uk, but I don't know.

Its not time for the video is it....?

Cut some 2" or just over cookies from them leave them to dry another 4-6 months and if they are still good then sand and oil them an you have yourself a chopping board. The wood looks very pale for elm and bark looks smith....

Thankyou. Iv planted some seeds from it and the starting to grow. ?

I think we will see a completely different Joshua in the rematch he will be focused on Ruiz 100% this time just hop he can win the belts back.... He has handled his loss in a very good respectful way tho think everyone would agree.

A local elm tree just up the road from me but unsure which elm it is? I think wych elm? I can take more pictures etc if needed. Thankyou.

Thankyou and yeah that's right my hobby has got out of control ha, I started off milling few small stuff with a chainsaw mill to make projects etc but there was so much wasted wood and noise, each cut your Binning 8mm where a bandsaw is 1.5-2mm max and on logs about foot diamiter milling at 1.25" boards it's far too much wast, so I wanted a bandsaw mill but I didn't have the room for one so I made that and it works grate, I keeped getting bigger logs now lol 32" oak is the biggest iv milled with it I think but you can also take the saw to the log and mill it. But iv got my own house now with some land so I am gona build a track for it in a few years and use it like a normal mill and if I ever need to take it anywhere to mill somthing i can.

Milled this elm Saturday and stacked it Sunday beautiful wood.

Log arch trailer could be a option.

Iv collected some elm today thankyou for anyone who has helped me.

http://www.woodweb.com/cgi-bin/calculators/calc.pl?calculator=log_weight I use this site.

This is the best way I think which should yield 16 true 90° grain and rays.

Yeah please send some pictures would be interested my email is [email protected] Thankyou.

Yeah I'm interested I'll pm you my contact details thankyou.

RoughHewn keeps posting pictures of elm in the milling section. Iv actually already spoke to him he hasn't got any full logs suitable at the minute.

Hello I'm currently trying to get my hands on a elm log if anyone has one or gets one in the near future. Any advise for who I could try contacting? Size wise somewhere around 20 to 30" diamiter 6 to 8 foot long or anything simular anything considered willing to travel anywhere to collect and don't mind paying good money for a decent log many thanks Wayne.

Thankyou, bottem 10ft still needs blasting once iv done more alterations, took the other chimney off as I would never use it iv took it down all way to ground which will give me flat wall in kitchen for units etc.

Would of been Easyer to build a new house hers a few pics which won't really show the extent of the work but gives you a idea.

Yes it's going to be built into brickwork with bricks above it but it's not load bearing meaning no floor joist or fireplace upstairs sat on it etc. There's plenty of room in turms of flu etc and yeah iv thought about stone but the house is stone with stone lintels above the windows I just didn't want it too look the same as a external lintel and iv got elm boards to turn into furniture for the living room in the future. That's what I'm kind of thinking anyways.

I don't think it will be any different iv looked back at the pictures of when I milled it and it's the same thro out the log. Yeah staining might be a option if it would work good enough if I carnt source a replacement.

Your exactly right and yes it could be cut smaller in length and cut to 2" for a coffee table etc. Trying to source a new log now ?

I get what your saying but I could use any wood if a wanted to blacken it or hide it with horse shoes etc isn't the look I'm trying to go for lol.

Hello all I've got a bit of a dilemma I'm currently undergoing a major refurbishment of the house I've bought and going to be living in when done. I'm into milling and two years ago I collected a elm log cheap (£50) that had been sat for a few years in a log yard, I cut it down in length and took it home and milled it up making a beam and 2" boards. The issue is because the log was sat with one end exposed to the elements it has gone white and faded which I did notice at the time but didn't think much of it. So iv come to take the beam out the stack, I've belt sanded it so I could see the grain as I need to cut it from 15" to 11.5" and wiped it down with water and the faded end just doesnt look right and I don't think I'm going to be happy with it. It was supposed to be the mantle that gets put in the fireplace I'm going to build out of old handmade bricks with a log burner in etc which would be the main feature of the room. So my options are do I use it and possibly not be happy with it in my forever home or try and source another log/beam? So if anyone has a elm beam big enough would have to be 12" high 5.5/6" deep and 67" or 1.7m long. Or I would travel and buy a log and bandsaw mill it myself into the right size and leave to dry as long as I can before building the fireplace, I could put it off for possibly a year. I've added pic so you can see what I mean and thankyou for reading it all if you got this far. Wayne.