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[woodmills1]

here is what 3.5 hours of woods time brought home today. would have been much quicker if the first two standing dead trees were not just plain rotten. seems the ash trees are really in distress here. one 16 inch ash broke into 7 pieces when it fell with no usable firewood. standing dead red oak however is the best firewood short of hickory or locust properly dried. check out my posts in kioti, rural and tractor projects for more pictures

James "woody" Mills

 

[JayC]

Nice setup. /w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif How much horsepower does it have? It looks like a big load on the back. Have any idea as to how much it weighs?

 

[woodmills1]

30.5 horsepower and i would guess that dry stuff would be over 3 ton.

James "woody" Mills

 

[TerryinMD]

James,

I betcha your elms have Dutch Elm disease. I lose two to three of them a year on my three acres. It's a darn shame. Some of the elms were 30-40 feet with a nice canopy. You'll typically see them lose their leaves around August. After that, they're gone. You'll notice that the bark will peal off the next year and the cambium layer (sp?) is streaked with beetle "highways".

If you can get the elms a year or two after they die, you might be able to get spalted wood. We've gotten some of that and given it to my father-in-law and his brother. Father-in-law uses the spalted elm for intarsia and his brother uses it for wooden bowls.

Terry

 

[woodmills1]

what i have are ash dead. 99% of the elm has been dead here for a long time, due to just what you are describing.

James "woody" Mills

 

[HR_Mutt]

<font color=blue>best firewood short of hickory or locust properly dried.</font color=blue> I love to burn the locust, it's just a terror on the chainsaw blades. Mind if I ask what you're using to cut it up?
I even considered getting a carbide blade like the emergency rescue people use for cutting people out of cars/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif.
Great pic/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
regards
Mutt

 

[woodmills1]

we don't have much locust here, but the standing dead red oak will make a saw chain spark, and the saw shudder. i have a small firewood processor that uses a shear. it will shear up to 8 inch hardwood green but won't do the dry red oak over 5.

James "woody" Mills

 

[DAP]

I have lottsa dead Am. Elm and ashe. Try hand splitting some Am. elm. WHOA!

 

[woodmills1]

some tough split is elm though most of those died here long ago. even frozen the maul just bounces off. got to cut it very short but even then it burns like a misty day.

James "woody" Mills