5 Good Morning fellow Earthlings. Nice having everything staged from the day before. You accomplished a lot of splitting in 2.5 hours. I am glad the elm was frozen. Great music and video Chris.
I love elm for my stove. Here in Scotland where we have millions of standing dead elms due to Dutch Elm Disease we leave them standing where safe till they naturally debark then process them. Once the stove is lit I always switch to elm for a great bed of embers and heat for a long time. It's BTU output is fully 3/4 that of oak and in most charts produces the same BTU value as ash. Just my tuppence worth as a Scottish woodsman. Have a great day.
Standing dead elm is my favorite firewood, I perfer it over ash. You can see them standing from two miles away! Sometimes when i see them when I'm driving down the highway, i just have to look the other way or Id never get anywhere! I have an outdoor central boiler, no need to split it as long as its under 20" diameter and already dry.
@@dakotakid1447 I always harvest standing dead elm after a period of drying wind and it can generally go straight to this years log pile. Maybe the butt goes to next year's pile but mostly once it has lost its bark it's good to go. Green elm is another story...it is dire. I too drive around weighing up how many loads I could get from each tree I see and never understand folk who site burn or chip s.d.e.
Hi Chris, bet you've noticed a huge difference being able to use an elevator to load the trailer. Lot less wear and tear on you and much more efficient.👍
Elm is the moped of hardwoods! Burns okay, but you have to fight with it sometimes to get it to go, and you don’t really want your buddies to know that you’re burning it. But it’s that wooden dollar’s problem- if I didn’t like dollars so much I wooden do it!
Oh the dreaded Elm! I split a bunch of Elm when we first got started in firewood. It’s definitely not my favorite! Thanks for the daily dose Sir Chris!👍🏻👍🏻 GNI
Elm wood burns like churchyard mould, E'ven the very flames are cold. Poem I remember every time I slip it. Satan Wood is very appropriate. That splitter is sweet.
Elm trees grow like weeds in my area. Road ditches are full of them and they mostly seem to die young. Easy cutting but so hard to split. Mostly I buck them and stack the rounds for a year or two (until the bark slips) then split when it is 20 below 0. GNI
The best time to split elm is when it’s green (within a week of being cut down) in my opinion. It seems to follow a straighter grain pattern then even though it still gets squirrelly
Chris...Elm may be nasty but I don't think there is anything worse than Gum we had in New Jersey. When I was younger and stupid I picked up a truckload of NG from a roadside dump site. I could not understand why everyone watching me cut and load these heavy rounds were laughing. I quickly learned that splitting 24" rounds even with wedges and a 12# sledge were almost impossible. (And it burns like sheiss; all ash and no heat!) Our local Agway was advertising "If our MacKissick Mighty MAC 9hp splitter can't split whatever you can bring in the splitter is yours." I showed up with a round of Gum and as soon as they saw me get it out of my truck they said, "NO GUM!" I said OK but just try. It would not split it! I learned that bark real well and never cut it again!
Your operation has really improved with moving to the new woodyard. Even your cookie bin system is better. Ash is cash. I happen to be burning 100% ash this winter in my woodstove and I like it a lot.
Elm elm elm elm at least it’s a little easier to split in the winter. And I think you should check to see if you need to clean that convoy out with all that is failing into it you don’t need that to stop on you. Awesome work as always Chris ✋
Moving your operation to the farm has really helped your production, you haven’t ran the processor in how long, your ultra the elevator and trailers have been your work horses lately.
I thought I was getting old yesterday when I tried splitting elm for the first time. My Fiskars axe either bounced off or got stuck. Found stuff like this on YT and felt a bit better.
Boy the time you would save just putting the conveyor under the splitter and letting each log push the previous into. Sure you would have a little more debris in the trailer but you would just dump it on the burn pile after you stack. Trading over handling the wood so that the bark and tiny pieces end up under the splitter, which you have to clean up any way. Faster to dump the trailer vs scrape it up with the tractor. Thanks for the video though!
@@davidedwards3734 I had about 6 trees to cut out of man's yard in 2001 and we try to split them trees and that was my first experience with sweet gum. I try not to cut any now but if I do, I put it on the burn pile and burn it whole.
Never had the displeasure of splitting Sweetgum, Another that I think rates close to Elm is Yellow Birch but I usually dont see it very often and only sparsely mixed in with Maple at times.
@@jakebredthauer5100 There's not a veteran or military man here that is in favor of war.... It's not a good thing period. Only the elites. DemocRATS have started or involved us in just about every war, conflict, police effort we've been in. It helps their lobbyists, and it's easier to skim off the top , ie. launder money when we are all worried...
Dad used to drag home Elm when Dutch Elm Disease was killing huge landscape trees in the early seventies. I learned to handsplit on that nasty stuff. To this day I'll buy fuel oil before I'll burn Elm.
G’morning Chris. Hello Fellow Firewood Fanatics. You can produce a lot of Splittâge. Frozen Elm is less worse. I get clinkers in my stove when I burn elm. GoodNightIrene
I love red elm great heat source and compared to the other elms easy to split. Chinese elm is the worst thing to split . And Chris if Bert doesn’t mind his pallet forks will connect to your loader. Keep on cutting
We have "Chinese Elm" around here (planted domestic trees) very hard when dry, dense, heavy, hard to split with an axe unless very dry or below zero cold weather. Seems similar to ash when burning, perhaps puts out MOre heat.
Elms are very "tough" trees they resist wind damage and drought and they are also hard to process when done living or sawed down. We have them in "shelter belts" around here (planted 75 years ago) Due to ongoing severe droughts here they are dying. Also hard to saw, semi chisel seems to work a little better; or maybe less sharpening............
Many streets in Iowa city were lined with 70 ft. Tall elms in the early and mid 60's. It was a great time to be a pre teen. The great horned owls lived those trees. It was great falling asleep to those owls hooting at each other. The cicadas would leave their shells on the gnarly bark. And you couldn't get away from all the grey squirrels, they were every where. Very fond memories.
I have a delivery tomorrow morning, before the storm. I am meeting a person at the halfway point across the next county. She is getting a kit for herself and her neighbor. So far I have had no repeat customers. The feed back is wonderful. I made up a kit for a couple who have a camper. Their kit was designed as an emergency kit if they breakdown. Customers are saying the wood is too pretty to burn. They are putting the wood by their hearths as a conversation piece.
Ill have to get up extra early to clean snow out before work and do again when I get home. Dont think there will be much going on in the woodyard till the weekend.
@bert brei Just watched the weather. We are right on the line between a half inch of ice and six inches of snow and / or sleet. Just learned that this event is not the big storm, just the pre storm.
I burn a lot of Piss Elm in my wood boiler. I dont bother splitting it though. Ive found that dead dry Red Elm might be the best fire wood of all time! Also it splits pretty easy! Wish i had more on my farm!! Also was wondering why you use the pallet sized baskets for storing wood? I would think it would be a pain to unload that wood for use. Just curious!
Consider purchasing an energy efficient 300 watt LED light for Bert to replace the existing exterior bulb for later night working with digit retention😊
your back got a workout today picking through those rounds. i have a lot of nasties from the old maple we took down behind the house this year, but it all burns. those crotches sure do make the splitter moan and groan. have a big cherry that blew down in back that I'm working on. it has quite a few pockets of ants and twists in the wood. was about 22 inches across the butt. gonna make some good wood for the stove in the next year or maybe year after depending on the winter.
I was just thinking on the conveyor: can you take 1 panel at the top, the cover at the underside, off to prevent wood getting stuck there in the future or is it a structural piece?
You should consider yourself lucky. Most of the wood I have in this part of the world is elm. Sucks to split but it isn’t terrible firewood once it dries. I do wish I had better trees around here.
I split up a bunch of red oak last week (we think it was either "scarlet oak" or some kind of wild hybrid...) that was the nastiest dirtiest splitting oak I've ever seen. It was WORSE than elm. Tough, stringy, HEAVY... just nasty stuff to split. Glad I got that one done for sure.
@@InTheWoodyard Yeah... My dad is a walking tree identification encyclopedia, and I had him come over to look at it. It made him scratch his head... had to get the books out. "Scarlet Oak" was what looked to be the closest in the books... but it kinda didn't look like that either... so we're thinking it was some kind of wild hybrid or something. But it was just nasty to split.
Great video, i see you have brought a chainsaw from another channel can’t wait to see you running it. By the way i am from Northern Ireland uk every time i click on your link a stihl chainsaw add plays , very nearly always. Husqvarna should be sponsoring you the saws appear in alot of the videos.
I started splitting wood when I was 7 with my dad an I used only an axe or a maul and wedges. Did that until the day I moved out at 18 so yes with all the elm trees we got for free when they where dying of dutch elm disease in the 1970s so ya, I know.
@@InTheWoodyard I started burning with wood a few years ago, so im new at this. I enjoy staying in shape at a old age by using a ax, I was shocked how difficult it was compared to other kinds of wood.
All that extra manipulation and manual pulling apart of that elm makes for some tired wrists, elbows and forearms. I usually can go for about 2-3 hours before my hands lose grip strength. Chris can you go all day on that tough splitting stuff? Or do you have a point you fatigue?
My wife and I are not fans of elm, it smells funny when burning and messes with our allergies. We used to burn it when that was all we had but now I keep an eye on Craigslist for free wood and I keep about 3 years ahead with mostly red oak. You don’t have that luxury of long drying time with the quantity of wood you go through.
I manage a small wood pile for personal use. Last summer a neighbor cut down a small elm tree and the logs I recovered amounted to about two face cords. I split it using a manual splitter. I will never knowingly accept elm logs again. It fights with you right to the very end and it smells like manure for a couple of weeks. No thanks. Have a great day.
Good morning Chris!!😀😀 Are you ready for the four letter word to cover us up in the next couple days?? I'm definitely not looking forward to it. Hopefully the weather man is wrong. Take care my friend!!😀😀💚 Logger Al
@@annmariekowalski7505 hopefully you don't get too much ice. I'm definitely not looking forward to a foot or more of snow. It's been so nice this year so far. We don't have any snow on the ground right now. But it looks like that is definitely going to change. LOL!!
@@InTheWoodyard I just had a table built for my old splitter. It was a factory name on the side… Didder late father and uncle raised it up waist high. It’s a good 50 years old. I had the cylinder rebuilt, and the control valve rebuilt as it has steel lines to and from. New engine and a table. Prob. Could have bought new one instead. Lol.
That Elm seems to split like Pecan. Down here sweet gum is the worst. Even if you had "straight grain" a 4 way wont split it. It is as if it is braided. I see you have a bin for your rejects. My reject pile is immense. All of my wood is tree service wood and it has a bit of rot, knots and crotchy wood that is just not worth wasting my business on. As I mentioned I want to go for the bundles as people dont heat with wood as their primary source. It is all for pleasure and beer drinking, lol. GNI
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Good Morning fellow Earthlings.
Nice having everything staged from the day before. You accomplished a lot of splitting in 2.5 hours. I am glad the elm was frozen. Great music and video Chris.
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Thanks!
I love elm for my stove. Here in Scotland where we have millions of standing dead elms due to Dutch Elm Disease we leave them standing where safe till they naturally debark then process them. Once the stove is lit I always switch to elm for a great bed of embers and heat for a long time. It's BTU output is fully 3/4 that of oak and in most charts produces the same BTU value as ash. Just my tuppence worth as a Scottish woodsman. Have a great day.
Standing dead elm is my favorite firewood, I perfer it over ash. You can see them standing from two miles away! Sometimes when i see them when I'm driving down the highway, i just have to look the other way or Id never get anywhere! I have an outdoor central boiler, no need to split it as long as its under 20" diameter and already dry.
@@dakotakid1447 I always harvest standing dead elm after a period of drying wind and it can generally go straight to this years log pile. Maybe the butt goes to next year's pile but mostly once it has lost its bark it's good to go. Green elm is another story...it is dire. I too drive around weighing up how many loads I could get from each tree I see and never understand folk who site burn or chip s.d.e.
Yes, it is good burning wood!
Yup, it can dry standing if you are patient.
Yup, the tops dry but the butts are slow to dry.
This episode has given me a craving for a margarita with your choice of music!
Ha!!!!!
Hi Chris, bet you've noticed a huge difference being able to use an elevator to load the trailer. Lot less wear and tear on you and much more efficient.👍
Yup. less effort!
Coffee and Chris!
Remember to flush!
Elm is the moped of hardwoods! Burns okay, but you have to fight with it sometimes to get it to go, and you don’t really want your buddies to know that you’re burning it. But it’s that wooden dollar’s problem- if I didn’t like dollars so much I wooden do it!
Yup!
Oh the dreaded Elm! I split a bunch of Elm when we first got started in firewood. It’s definitely not my favorite! Thanks for the daily dose Sir Chris!👍🏻👍🏻 GNI
Yup, nasty crap!
Elm wood burns like churchyard mould,
E'ven the very flames are cold. Poem I remember every time I slip it. Satan Wood is very appropriate. That splitter is sweet.
It does burn okay but it is a nasty wood!
Elm trees grow like weeds in my area. Road ditches are full of them and they mostly seem to die young. Easy cutting but so hard to split. Mostly I buck them and stack the rounds for a year or two (until the bark slips) then split when it is 20 below 0. GNI
The best time to split elm is when it’s green (within a week of being cut down) in my opinion. It seems to follow a straighter grain pattern then even though it still gets squirrelly
Yup, no bark is good elm.
Awesome video Chris, I love the sound of the wood getting split, good techniques I keep paying attention!
Thanks 👍
Another solid performance... good night Irene
Thanks Dave!
Chris...Elm may be nasty but I don't think there is anything worse than Gum we had in New Jersey. When I was younger and stupid I picked up a truckload of NG from a roadside dump site. I could not understand why everyone watching me cut and load these heavy rounds were laughing. I quickly learned that splitting 24" rounds even with wedges and a 12# sledge were almost impossible. (And it burns like sheiss; all ash and no heat!) Our local Agway was advertising "If our MacKissick Mighty MAC 9hp splitter can't split whatever you can bring in the splitter is yours." I showed up with a round of Gum and as soon as they saw me get it out of my truck they said, "NO GUM!" I said OK but just try. It would not split it! I learned that bark real well and never cut it again!
I have heard it is nasty!
Your operation has really improved with moving to the new woodyard. Even your cookie bin system is better.
Ash is cash. I happen to be burning 100% ash this winter in my woodstove and I like it a lot.
Yup, things are better to the west in Bertlandia.
Yup, enjoy it now soon there will none.
Elm elm elm elm at least it’s a little easier to split in the winter. And I think you should check to see if you need to clean that convoy out with all that is failing into it you don’t need that to stop on you. Awesome work as always Chris ✋
Thanks Frank!
Moving your operation to the farm has really helped your production, you haven’t ran the processor in how long, your ultra the elevator and trailers have been your work horses lately.
Gotta get all the wood that won't work well on the processor out of the way first. Then the processor will scream once again!
Yup, the nasty crap needs to get done!
Chris is a great guy. Takes one for the team by splitting the elm for us.
Ha! It is hard to split.
Just did an elm tree the other day, first time in 10+ years. I'll wait another 15 for the next one. Damn nasty stuff.
Yup!
I thought I was getting old yesterday when I tried splitting elm for the first time. My Fiskars axe either bounced off or got stuck. Found stuff like this on YT and felt a bit better.
It is like trying to split cable...nasty crap but good firewood!
Come on Spring! Well Dun!
Yup, no more snow ...please!
Boy the time you would save just putting the conveyor under the splitter and letting each log push the previous into. Sure you would have a little more debris in the trailer but you would just dump it on the burn pile after you stack. Trading over handling the wood so that the bark and tiny pieces end up under the splitter, which you have to clean up any way. Faster to dump the trailer vs scrape it up with the tractor. Thanks for the video though!
Yup, thanks Reggie.
Good afternoon from the uk 🇬🇧, lunchtime with Chris today.
Thanks!!
Mariachis...I used to live in Mexico City off and on for 10 years! This music makes me miss friends and the good food! Viva Mexico! :D
Yup, good food!!!
The mariachi band playing has got to be the best Woodyard music I've ever heard
Thanks Joe!
Good morning Chris that Eastonmade is a beast,you work pretty hard aswell.
Thanks.
HA, GOOD ONE!
Good Morning Sir!! Everyone complains of elm!! Sweet gum sucks also!! Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day
Yup, I here gum is bad!
Great job Chris 👏 Thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks Frank!
Hi Chris you think elm is crappy wood try sweet gum that wood is just as bad too. Have a great day be safe.
Sweet gum is very nasty to split
@@davidedwards3734 I had about 6 trees to cut out of man's yard in 2001 and we try to split them trees and that was my first experience with sweet gum. I try not to cut any now but if I do, I put it on the burn pile and burn it whole.
Never had the displeasure of splitting Sweetgum, Another that I think rates close to Elm is Yellow Birch but I usually dont see it very often and only sparsely mixed in with Maple at times.
That is what many have said here!
Thanks Chris.
My 2 best friends for ELM is a 1" Rubber foot plate and a hatchet.
Mike M.
Yup, stringy stuff!
Crazy Elm wood for the crazy Chris!👍👍 GNI
Yup, just nuts!
Nice video.
Thanks!
1, looks like it may be a tie today... I can usually tell, but they keep updating to the next minute at the same time...
On the mornings I am ready and waiting for the upload and enter 1st as soon as it loads there are sometimes already numerous likes in seconds. 🤣
Good effort everyone.
Good job!
You just keep going ! Kinda like the energizing bunny .
Yup, I like to get stuff done.
Wood splits much easier when frozen and you keep moving to stay warm love it.
Yup!
Woodhounds abound.... What name has Chris given the elevator/ conveyor?? That thing does the work of 2 young men!
We call it the elevator.
Good morning Chris elm is rough wood to split but any way great job on splitting one half trailer loads 👍 😀
Thanks 👍
Hit the Like button and share folks, helps Chris on the algorithm in the technowizardry world.
@@jakebredthauer5100 There's not a veteran or military man here that is in favor of war.... It's not a good thing period. Only the elites. DemocRATS have started or involved us in just about every war, conflict, police effort we've been in. It helps their lobbyists, and it's easier to skim off the top , ie. launder money when we are all worried...
Thanks Greg!
Dad used to drag home Elm when Dutch Elm Disease was killing huge landscape trees in the early seventies. I learned to handsplit on that nasty stuff. To this day I'll buy fuel oil before I'll burn Elm.
Yup, same here!
👍👍
Thanks!
My property is treed coniferous and elm...lucky me! The real life good, bad, and ugly...
Satan fire wood 😂 love it
It's magic
The wood runs up the conveyor fasted the the conveyor moves up. Dude that is sweet. 😍🤣🙃
Yup, it works!
G’morning Chris. Hello Fellow Firewood Fanatics. You can produce a lot of Splittâge. Frozen Elm is less worse. I get clinkers in my stove when I burn elm.
GoodNightIrene
Yup, it is hard to split but good to burn!
A lot of Nasty Elm the Single wedge produces better wood then the 4 way wedge,
Yup, the single wedge is good for nasty crap.
I love red elm great heat source and compared to the other elms easy to split. Chinese elm is the worst thing to split . And Chris if Bert doesn’t mind his pallet forks will connect to your loader. Keep on cutting
Yup, red elm is much easier to split.
Elm burns nice but is a pain to split. That little splitter seems to be a real rock star.
The splitter is a good machine.
elevated equal elegant efforts of elm earners if you ask me. and rent payers as well for the boiler.
Good one George!
The knife seems a bit loose, is that normal wear and tear? I know you use it a lot and it’s a fantastic splitter. Beautiful wood😍😍
yup
We have "Chinese Elm" around here (planted domestic trees) very hard when dry, dense, heavy, hard to split with an axe unless very dry or below zero cold weather. Seems similar to ash when burning, perhaps puts out MOre heat.
Yup, it splits hard but burns good.
Chris conveyor run good today for you , 10 pc for you and 1 pc for Bert 😊. No wood CATS out in the wood yard too cold lol . 😊
cats are out at end of video !
Yup, it is almost that, You will see soon, the whole pile produced 50 facecords of sellable wood and 10 of chunks.
Some days they are not around much at all.
A man after my own heart!
Split it up wee and dry it fast!
That is what my customers want.
The mariachi music works.
Thanks!
Elms are very "tough" trees they resist wind damage and drought and they are also hard to process when done living or sawed down. We have them in "shelter belts" around here (planted 75 years ago) Due to ongoing severe droughts here they are dying. Also hard to saw, semi chisel seems to work a little better; or maybe less sharpening............
Many streets in Iowa city were lined with 70 ft. Tall elms in
the early and mid 60's.
It was a great time to be a pre teen.
The great horned owls lived those trees.
It was great falling asleep to those owls hooting at each other.
The cicadas would leave their shells on the gnarly bark.
And you couldn't get away from all the grey squirrels, they were every where.
Very fond memories.
Yup, they are tough trees.
Yup, same here in Central Wisconsin.
Night and day difference going from elm to maple for sure!
Yup, you got that right!
Nice splittage in frosty Bertlandia🪵👍
Thanks !
A new smash-Wood-System? :)
I have a delivery tomorrow morning, before the storm. I am meeting a person at the halfway point across the next county. She is getting a kit for herself and her neighbor.
So far I have had no repeat customers. The feed back is wonderful. I made up a kit for a couple who have a camper. Their kit was designed as an emergency kit if they breakdown. Customers are saying the wood is too pretty to burn. They are putting the wood by their hearths as a conversation piece.
Ill have to get up extra early to clean snow out before work and do again when I get home. Dont think there will be much going on in the woodyard till the weekend.
@bert brei Just watched the weather. We are right on the line between a half inch of ice and six inches of snow and / or sleet. Just learned that this event is not the big storm, just the pre storm.
That is good and bad! Sells good because it looks good but they NEED to burn it!!!
I burn a lot of Piss Elm in my wood boiler. I dont bother splitting it though. Ive found that dead dry Red Elm might be the best fire wood of all time! Also it splits pretty easy! Wish i had more on my farm!! Also was wondering why you use the pallet sized baskets for storing wood? I would think it would be a pain to unload that wood for use. Just curious!
Yup, red elm is good wood. The pallets bins are easily moved to the boiler with the skid steer.
Hey Chris…!!! Lots of splitting going on!!! WOW In your experience, does ash and elm dry at the same rate???
Ash is basically dry when alive!
Maple dries to fast and then just goes up in smoke.....LOL
Ha! I will take all I can get, people love it and pay me for it!
Consider purchasing an energy efficient 300 watt LED light for Bert to replace the existing exterior bulb for later night working with digit retention😊
There is a 2nd light on barn it just wasnt turned on.
There is one already.
your back got a workout today picking through those rounds. i have a lot of nasties from the old maple we took down behind the house this year, but it all burns. those crotches sure do make the splitter moan and groan. have a big cherry that blew down in back that I'm working on. it has quite a few pockets of ants and twists in the wood. was about 22 inches across the butt. gonna make some good wood for the stove in the next year or maybe year after depending on the winter.
That is a nice size cherry tree!
I was just thinking on the conveyor: can you take 1 panel at the top, the cover at the underside, off to prevent wood getting stuck there in the future or is it a structural piece?
Yup, good idea.
My Fiskars Hookaroon just arrived.
Nice!!!
Heated handle ?
😀
That is what the cord is for.
Did you give the kitties the day off? Or was it too cold for them today?
the wood cats were out at the end of the video !
Some days they are out on assignments.
Haaaaa!
Mornin y’all! Happy Mardi Gras!
Hello!
Nice job god bless
Thank you John!
You should consider yourself lucky. Most of the wood I have in this part of the world is elm. Sucks to split but it isn’t terrible firewood once it dries. I do wish I had better trees around here.
Yes, I am very lucky. Yup, it does burn good.
I split up a bunch of red oak last week (we think it was either "scarlet oak" or some kind of wild hybrid...) that was the nastiest dirtiest splitting oak I've ever seen. It was WORSE than elm. Tough, stringy, HEAVY... just nasty stuff to split. Glad I got that one done for sure.
I never heard of that, but there are a lot of kinds of oak for sure!
@@InTheWoodyard Yeah... My dad is a walking tree identification encyclopedia, and I had him come over to look at it. It made him scratch his head... had to get the books out. "Scarlet Oak" was what looked to be the closest in the books... but it kinda didn't look like that either... so we're thinking it was some kind of wild hybrid or something. But it was just nasty to split.
Great video, i see you have brought a chainsaw from another channel can’t wait to see you running it. By the way i am from Northern Ireland uk every time i click on your link a stihl chainsaw add plays , very nearly always. Husqvarna should be sponsoring you the saws appear in alot of the videos.
Thou shalt not stihl. 😂
I do not have control of advertising on youtube, but if I did... you would see Husqvarna saws!
Yes!
I’m glad I don’t have elm in my woods!
You could go get some!
Now that you've had your kioti tractor for awhile how do you like it.
Very nice, I would buy another one.
I admire what you do. I cut wood for myself to heat, and use a ax. If you really want a challenge try using a ax on that elm.
I started splitting wood when I was 7 with my dad an I used only an axe or a maul and wedges. Did that until the day I moved out at 18 so yes with all the elm trees we got for free when they where dying of dutch elm disease in the 1970s so ya, I know.
@@InTheWoodyard I started burning with wood a few years ago, so im new at this. I enjoy staying in shape at a old age by using a ax, I was shocked how difficult it was compared to other kinds of wood.
Tim Rydman. Ash to elm on the splitter. One extreme to another. Satan wood sure does heat good though. No half strokes with the splitter on the elm.
Yup, it does not "pop".
Let the splitter push the rounds through,let machine do the work, you are just slowing the process down and wearing your self out
Sometimes it will not do that elm is not like other wood.
@@InTheWoodyard elm is beast no doubt,as is sycamore, and hedge. Just can’t hardly split by hand. Burns pretty good though, especially hedge.
All that extra manipulation and manual pulling apart of that elm makes for some tired wrists, elbows and forearms. I usually can go for about 2-3 hours before my hands lose grip strength. Chris can you go all day on that tough splitting stuff? Or do you have a point you fatigue?
Yup, I get sore from over use.....a lot!
What app or music do you use to put into your videos?
It is all IMOVIE or UA-cam music, no copyright stuff.
👍
Thanks!
How come you dont use a pickaroon to pick pieces up off ground? I find it saves my back!
I guess because I can still bend?
Elm is Satins wood because it burns HOT! Very similar to Cherry and soft Maple.
And....its Hell to split 😆
Yup, it does burn nice!
Well that Elm miserably nasty to split. I hope it's especially nice to burn!!
yup
Good morning, Chris. Has the tree service not been bringing any more wood lately?
Not much lately, but it is winter and that is normal.
you can't burn wood for heat in Denver or Phoenix.. so there ya go.
Might want to move away from there and soon. If they are stopping that a lot of other things will end too....like freedom.
My wife and I are not fans of elm, it smells funny when burning and messes with our allergies. We used to burn it when that was all we had but now I keep an eye on Craigslist for free wood and I keep about 3 years ahead with mostly red oak. You don’t have that luxury of long drying time with the quantity of wood you go through.
Yup, oak dries very slow, but is great wood!
Does the wood split easier when it is frozen or earlier in the Fall
frozen fresh cut.
I manage a small wood pile for personal use. Last summer a neighbor cut down a small elm tree and the logs I recovered amounted to about two face cords. I split it using a manual splitter. I will never knowingly accept elm logs again. It fights with you right to the very end and it smells like manure for a couple of weeks. No thanks. Have a great day.
Yup, like splitting cable!
Hey chris, i love the daily videos, i was wondering, why dont you use the processor more often?
I have to get the nasty knotty crooked tree service stuff done first, the processor will scream soon.
i can finaly see why you call it satan wood very ordinary to split cheers keep on chuckin
Thanks for watching!
Hey Chris I haven't seen your comments on how long the battery lasts on you new vest just wondering thanks
About 6 hours on 1/2 power.
Those nasties as you call it are some of the best burning wood you can get
Yes they are! The knotty crotchy stuff burns great!
Back in the 1980's we burned nothing but dead red elm, and that was the hardest stuff I ever split.
Yup, so did we as kids. We had s couple of metal wedges and maul, that's it!
Good morning Chris!!😀😀
Are you ready for the four letter word to cover us up in the next couple days?? I'm definitely not looking forward to it. Hopefully the weather man is wrong.
Take care my friend!!😀😀💚
Logger Al
Hi Logger Al. We have a three letter word hanging over our heads. ICE
@@annmariekowalski7505 hopefully you don't get too much ice. I'm definitely not looking forward to a foot or more of snow. It's been so nice this year so far. We don't have any snow on the ground right now. But it looks like that is definitely going to change. LOL!!
@@aldredske6197 The snow here is harder than concrete.
Yard is sitting at a good spot for snow but still alot of work to clean it all up if we get it. Chains went back on loader yesterday in prep for snow.
@@BertsCustomCuts if we get what they are predicting. It's going to suck.
I see you bent the table on the splitter. You have a big adj. wrench? Put that on it and a pipe on the handle. It will bend back.
Yup, but if I do anything I would bend the rest of it to the same 45 degrees so it does not jam the wood up when it is going through the splitter.
@@InTheWoodyard I just had a table built for my old splitter. It was a factory name on the side… Didder late father and uncle raised it up waist high. It’s a good 50 years old. I had the cylinder rebuilt, and the control valve rebuilt as it has steel lines to and from. New engine and a table. Prob. Could have bought new one instead. Lol.
Elm good burning wood if you can find it
Yup, it does burn good!
For wood like this you need a bigger bench on your Ultra .
It work okay but yes an extra work area would be nice!
I think the worst stuff I have split is a cross between sweet gum and sycamore. The rest is not really that hard..
Yup, I hear gum is tough.
Is this guy related to Red Green?
Ha! Yup, I get that all the time...I do like my duct tape!
sorry not a fan of that 4 way splitter. looks to me that a 2 way would be faster and easier. their 8 way or new 16 way might be nice :-)
I use both and yes for nasty wood the single wedge is good. But for perfect wood it is great.
That Elm seems to split like Pecan. Down here sweet gum is the worst. Even if you had "straight grain" a 4 way wont split it. It is as if it is braided. I see you have a bin for your rejects. My reject pile is immense. All of my wood is tree service wood and it has a bit of rot, knots and crotchy wood that is just not worth wasting my business on. As I mentioned I want to go for the bundles as people dont heat with wood as their primary source. It is all for pleasure and beer drinking, lol. GNI
Thanks for watching Billy!
why clear the wedge every time ? just keep pushing .
It does not always fall into the elevator in feed.