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[CalG]

Elm is super stringy. Just doesn't separate. I use a splitter and then a short handled ax to finish. It doesn't pit off a lot of btus but, it's wood, and when dry burns.

Pretty much all wood has the same heat content when dry. Pine leads the field!

But that is by weight, and a ton of dry pine looks a lot different than a ton of dry oak ;-)
I once got a log load of hardwood delivered. It was more than half black cherry. Has to be the sliveriest (is that a word?) fire wood ever. I'm not doing that again!

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I do burn a lot of hemlock. What else can I do with it ? ;-)

 

[WinterDeere]

I've heard that elm is miserable to split, and then slivers when dry.
True?

Interlocking grain structure, so it’s a mess to hand split, but a hydraulic splitter does just fine with it. Stringy, but it burns beautifully, a good solid medium-BTU wood that dries in a reasonable two summers.

 

[Jstpssng]

I like hemlock this time of year, in springtime, and also when I come home to a cold house. It's quick heat to take the dampness off in spring and fall, and to warm the house up quickly in winter before putting on the hardwood.

Besides, after taking out the logs what else am I going to do with it?

 

[Jstpssng]

Interlocking grain structure, so it’s a mess to hand split, but a hydraulic splitter does just fine with it. Stringy, but it burns beautifully, a good solid medium-BTU wood that dries in a reasonable two summers.

I have heard that it makes nice lumber, also.

 

[WinterDeere]

I’m burning all hickory right now. My system is FIFO, at a relatively high rate of usage, and it seems max heat demand almost never coincides with the highest BTU woods in my stacks. I’ll probably be burning ash in January, after ripping thru this hickory in October, but keeping to FIFO is how I keep my sheds organized with minimal handling.

I’m already running two stoves every night, which is early in the season, for us. Sometimes we don’t start until as late as Halloween.

 

[CalG]

I’m burning all hickory right now. My system is FIFO, at a relatively high rate of usage, and it seems max heat demand almost never coincides with the highest BTU woods in my stacks. I’ll probably be burning ash in January, after ripping thru this hickory in October, but keeping to FIFO is how I keep my sheds organized with minimal handling.

I’m already running two stoves every night, which is early in the season, for us. Sometimes we don’t start until as late as Halloween.

This past two weeks, I've been burning "clean up" wood. It never made it into the wood shed.

Mostly dead and down off the back trails.

I like hemlock this time of year, in springtime, and also when I come home to a cold house. It's quick heat to take the dampness off in spring and fall, and to warm the house up quickly in winter before putting on the hardwood.

Besides, after taking out the logs what else am I going to do with it?

I split the hemlock pretty fine....

for the reasons you have stated so well.!

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^
Slabwood from sawing the logs are really easy to split fine!

 

[Eagle1]

Elm is super stringy. Just doesn't separate. I use a splitter and then a short handled ax to finish. It doesn't pit off a lot of btus but, it's wood, and when dry burns.

Makes really good starter wood, put over kindling and if dry it will catch fast then add the good wood.

 

[WinterDeere]

Those burning elm in non-catalytic EPA stoves (tube/baffle stoves) often report elm burns with a blue flame, almost like acetylene. I'm running catalytic stoves, so mine goes from open fireplace type flame in bypass, to dead black box at lowest burn rates.

 

[Runner]

Interlocking grain structure, so it’s a mess to hand split, but a hydraulic splitter does just fine with it. Stringy, but it burns beautifully, a good solid medium-BTU wood that dries in a reasonable two summers.

Just finished splitting a couple of ash and elm trees by hand. Been a couple of years since I've touched my maul, but I finally got back in the groove (sort of). Had to partially split some of the bigger elm pieces with the saw before I could make any progress on them...

Getting ready to drop another dead elm today and hoping it is dead enough to split a little easier.

I would like to have a splitter, but just don't normally process enough wood to justify it.