American Elm Price

[firefighter ontheside]

Same here.  I don't use stain unless its for a customer who really wants it.  I didn't stain the elm myself.  I have a friend who used to have a sawmill and made lots of rustic furniture in South Dakota.  He had great luck staining the american elm and it looked really good.

[barbender]

 I've ran some really nice 8' elm logs through the firewood processor. It seems no one really knows what to do with it anymore, so it ends up in loads of mixed firewood logs I get. I wanted to saw them, but I knew I would saw them, sticker them, and there they would sit in the yard🤷 

 

[SwampDonkey]

I know a guy who confused some for red oak. Nope, not me. But this guy shoulda known. : It was my elm, so maybe he thought I didn't know what elm was, maybe that was the game. He never got any more wood from me, to saw. :D

[Stephen1]

I haven't made it down to gt the logs yet as we got walloped with 20+ inches of snow and winter is here. I hope to make it down to get the logs next week. 
Life changes once the snow comes, shovel, plow, feed the fire, shovel, plow , maybe find the wood to feed the kiln , then feed the fire again, and keep doing that ...until spring. 

[barbender]

I've grown to hate snow, at least how it affects all of my day to day activities. We currently have NONE and I'm loving it!

[SwampDonkey]

We only have enough snow to show a cat track. Going to be 40's tomorrow.

[fluidpowerpro]

I've grown to hate snow, at least how it affects all of my day to day activities. We currently have NONE and I'm loving it!

I hear ya!

[tyofwa]

I was just offered 2 American Elm logs. 24"x 12' from a local farmer. Grown in a tree line, but no fencing according to him. His family has lived there for 100 years.
This is in Ontario Canada.
What are they worth a bd ft? There is 300 bd ft. Doyle per log.
What would some of you pay delivered ? Picked up by yourself?

The first tree I retrieved after opening my business was a Siberian Elm planted in the late 1800s here on Whidbey Island (the one behind me in my profile pic).  It's been an amazing tree for many projects.  We recently milled the last of it.  As for price p/bf, the large slabs have been fetching ~$16/bf dried.  The smaller stuff is around $10/bf dried.  Most of the elm went into table, shelf, and mantle commissions.  In one case we made a staircase.  Most pics of that soon..

Here's a video of the recent milling.  https://www.instagram.com/p/C1AU1NvPW63/