new favorite wood.

[hackberry jake]

Never dealt with elm much. I like it! And the wife likes it! It's like walnut, but redder with sharper contrast lines.

 

[isawlogs]

I tried to deal with Elm once, did a table for my son. It will be the only table I ever do with Elm that I felled, sawed, dried then machined. I had to go through so much wood in the pile to get enough of it to make the table... I do have many propeller blades that only need be carved out of some of the wood that was on the bottom of the pile.. lets not talk about what was on the top...  :-\

  Hope you have better luck with Elm then I did.  ;)

[thecfarm]

Looks like he is having better luck. Must grow differant down there.  ;D
What's you're building this time?

[hackberry jake]

Just utility grade flooring for a two story shed.


 

[WDH]

Have you seen ambrosia in elm before?

[hackberry jake]

The picture is of sycamore. I just grabbed an elf board by accident and went ahead and processed it rather than taking it back to the chicken house. It is surprisingly heavy, but it was the last board I processed after working with sycamore all day.

Is there such thing as ambrosia elm?

[Jemclimber]

I'm not sure about ambrosia elm, and I don't know anything about  "elf"  wood either.  :D  But.... thanks for showing your projects.

[WDH]

I have never seen ambrosia in elm. 

[isawlogs]

 How is your elm drying, I had mine in the barn with a good air flow and it went every wich way you can imagine but straight.  :-\  :  >:(

[hackberry jake]

How is your elm drying, I had mine in the barn with a good air flow and it went every wich way you can imagine but straight.  :-\  :  >:(

It is dried to around 10 percent. We will see how much it moves on its way to 6 percent.

[OffGrid973]

Looks like the persimmon I ran through , near the pith you get great contrast and it's heavy for the size

[fishpharmer]

Your first pic, at first Inthought was cedar. :-\

[Just Me]

 I am a fan of Red Elm.

All of our elm is gone for the most part here. Trees will grow and get so big and die before they are of use. White elm sucks, just too darn ornery, but Red Elm is a whole nuther story.

I bought a farm 30 years ago that had a lot of dead standing Red elm and cut it and had it milled. It was totally different, straight grained, rot resistant, and had a beautiful red color that stayed that way when finished. Wish it was not all gone. Now all of our ash is gone, my other favorite. >:(

Larry

[mesquite buckeye]

There seems to be some resistance to Dutch elm disease in our native elms. We had one in Ohio that lasted several years after all the other ones died in the 1960's. I'm sure its seeds blew around the area and came up in the ditches and fencerows. If that resistance was real, some portion of the offspring should also be somewhat resistant.

When I started managing my MO farm in the early 90's I pretty much cut all the elms out of the young stands heavy in elm as I had seen them dying off by the time they get to 6-8" thick. That does still happen, but I also have seen individual trees in the woods that are up to 2 feet thick and either died at that time or are still growing. Now I try to leave the nicer elms in pole stands hoping to get them up to log size before they die. Even if they die, not a problem as there are plenty of adjacent trees to fill the space. Hopefully some of the leave trees will be somewhat resistant. The big healthy trees should have at least some resistance and that will be transmitted to some of their progeny. The time will come when big elms return to the healthy American forest. Progress is also being made with American chestnuts. Now we have to start looking for resistant ash trees.

By the way, my woods has American elm, red elm and winged elm growing in it. ;D 8)