Outdoor Wood Furnace Info
All-Purpose OWF Discussions => Fire Wood => Topic started by: Coach on January 21, 2016, 04:58:10 PM
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I have a neighbor who is giving me an elm tree the power company has just cut down. I like free wood but I am wondering how elm burns, can anyone give me some advice?
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I've had good luck burning elm in the past. Not as good as oak, but still a good hardwood.
Its tough to split though, your gonna want a woodsplitter
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Elm is decent firewood. Just as long as it's not Chinese elm.
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I burned a lot of elm back when Dutch Elm Disease passed through the area. As mentioned, it is very tough to split and not as good as oak or maple but it burns reasonably well. It needs a year of seasoning if cut green but less if it was standing dead.
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Been cutting dead elm the last three or four days, if most of the bark is gone it’s ready to burn mostly, the bottom 5 or 6 foot of the tree may be a little wet yet. Red elm is fantastic wood, it will stand till the roots rot clear out of it and even then the only part of it that will go bad is whats in direct contact with the ground.
Thats all I used to burn in the old OWB.
http://tinytimbers.com/specie_relm.htm
I’ve seen a good load of red elm bring more than oak at the hay auctions.
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its a jackpot when I find an elm in the bush with the bark all off :thumbup:
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if its free,its good 4 me :thumbup:
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Elm is fine to burn..Splitting it is a different term...Almost unsplitable lol..
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Elm is fine to burn..Splitting it is a different term...Almost unsplitable lol..
Sure can be a booger to split. On my original stove when I built I made the door 20”x30” just so I could roll some of those big chunks of elm in.
Now I have an inverted splitter for the skid steer to handle that nasty stuff.