Thank YOU!!! You're a hero!!! Wound up with a pallet full of elm rounds. Been scratching my head with a purpose for them since my splits wood by hand. Thought about turning it into a cordwood floor or something but not in love with that idea. Also love the tip on using elm with our pigs. Another idea is mushroom plugs, another hobby of mine but the elm we have has probably been down too long for that.
The cedar elm we have here in Texas is so much stringier and harder to split than your Elm. I was hoping to not have to noodle it all with the chainsaw since I’ve got at least a cord to split. Drying helps, but my little electric splitter still can’t split dry cedar elm. Chunking it off around the edges with a Fiskars splitting ax helps, too. Just a whole lot of effort per split. Thanks for the noodling suggestion!
Great video. Can you show the rack you made where you placed the wood to rip it? I just got a bunch of elm rounds and am struggling to split by hand. The chainsaw tip is helpful.
We have Elm logs cut from hanging above our hay shed- I will cut rounds and use your chainsaw technique to make burnable hunks. The wood is still green- is it best to cut them up now before they dry and harden- Ross from Taranaki NZ- under the volcano.
