I really like your sense of humor most of all and the organized way you do your processing, always! I could see from the stringiness of the elm through your splitter that it might be tough to do by hand but I have never had any to split. I guess it just not a prevalent tree in Tennessee.
Thanks...yeah that Elm can be a real pain to split. I think I did luck out a bit with this stuff being so green, didn't split too bad. Still a bit stringy tho. Thanks for stopping back in the archives and watching.
i lived in china maine back in the 70 s , we had dutch elm disease. i had at least 15 elms on my property. the largest had a butt of 3 feet, 70 feet in the air. i had the ones near the house profesionaly taken down, the rest i dropped . i split them all by hand with a maul and a wedge, that was a bitch let me tell you. only thing harder to split is beech. i was this skinny guy, 6 feet 2 inches , 160 lbs but i guess i must have been a little strong then. i split 14 cords a year for 37 years by hand, and i loved every minute of it. nothing is more satisfying than working up a cord of wood by hand. i still have that wedge, i had to put it in the forge a few time s and pound out the mushrooming around the top and re tempor it, cause those bits can fly off and cause some pain, but it is all fun. i wish i could do it all over again but i cant cause that is the way it goes. my advice to you is to appriciate every minute have out in the woods and working up that wood. merry Christmas to you and your wife and kids. thanks
Awesome splitter! now all you need is a small Kubota with a front end loader , Diesel, 4x4, )With a couple thousand down, you can buy one for $100/month. Then you can pull your splitter around, load the splits in the bucket and dump them wherever, transport the rounds in the fel, etc. Use your profits from this year to set you up with a 18hp Kubota-that's all you need, and you'll quadruple your production. I guarantee it! You'll have everything paid for in no time and will be buying logging truck loads! Good luck! I love your snagglecrotch definition!
I really like the way you always analyze your time and motions to optimize every step of your operation. So, my prediction was right on the chipper. Hah! It looks really easy to operate and if my guess is right, you will have one after this trial is over and maybe me too.
That’s a nice splitter and I definitely think that narrow wedge helps a lot. I burn a lot of elm and yes, it is tough to work with but it makes nice firewood.
Great setup.you got options either a pallet under splitter to catch wood or pull truck around and throw into it. Just got a tractor so i load trailer then fill bucket as i split.yep i miss splitting by hand but the machinery helps me get so much more done!
yeah sometimes I just let the wood pile up at the end, and sometimes I split into my cart. Eventually I'd like to add a tractor of some sorts to the operation as well. Thanks for the feedback and for watching...appreciate it!
I'm 73 years old now and I've been heating my dwellings with woodstoves since 1983, and one winter I had two cords of elm, which put out such low heat (so that I had to reload the stove every two or three hours) that I determined never to rely on elm again for heat. I live in North Alabama which has the highest number of different varieties of trees of anywhere in the US, so I can pretty much pick and choose what kind of trees to cut, and my all-time favorite is Locust (either honey locust or black locust), and my second favorite is red oak. Sugar Maple is great but is hard to come by where I live. Hickory is pretty good but it goes to coals too fast so that on really cold days I have to empty the coals out of the woodstove in order to make room for more wood. Dogwood is one of the best, but it's usually kind of small and therefore burns up too fast. Locust is far and away my favorite because it burns evenly and doesn't go to coals too fast, and it lasts twice as long as hickory in the woodstove, especially if I'm burning locust sticks with the bark on them.
I've heard of black locust being the king of firewoods, but I've never dealt with or had any around to cut or split. Up here our Shagbark Hickory is just a bit better than the Oak...burns hot & long. I mostly move the Elm for recreational burning...camping, fire pits, etc. works nice because once it dies and sheds its bark its nice and clean for moving around....like in car trunks & such. Thanks for the feedback and for watching...haven't seen you in the comments so guessing you may be new to the channel....glad you found it and hope you enjoy!
@@Back40Firewood ~ Three other hardwoods that are about as good as locust are hawthorn, persimmon, and dogwood, but they're nowhere near as easy to find as locust. And then too, there is osage orange (aka bowdock), which is the hottest firewood I've ever burned, but it makes so much creosote that I no longer burn it in my woodstove. Plus when you open the door of the stove to load in more wood thousands of sparks come flying out (I used to love the look on my cat's face when that happened). Several years a guy who owns a tree service told me about a friend of his who bought one of those el cheapo Franklin Woodstoves made in China (I think maybe he bought it at Lowe's), and one cold night he loaded it with osage orange and it burned a hole through the bottom of the stove. :O)
Jim Yost you sir obviously have experience. As do I, locust smells terrible. You forgot to mention fart fragrance and splitting can be a bear if your makin kindleing. Maple is very consistent splits nice makes much heat lasts as coals beautiful fragrance. Cherry is good but smells like strong campfire. Ash is fantastic but doesn’t do anything stellar. Oak is strong heat.
@@ericharris893 ~ Locust smells like a garbage fire until the bark burns off, then it smells the way it smells when you're toasting bread in a toaster. It smells really good and it puts out as much heat as hickory but it doesn't go to coals real fast like hickory does. It's just about my favorite firewood, especially in really cold weather because it puts out so much heat.
You should start a pile, just for the bundles, elm, ash, little bit of cherry and oak, that way you can just set up and create like 50 bundles at a time in 1 location and with different types of wood?
Hey Joshua, great idea and thanks for the feedback. I actually do have most of my 'mixed' piles mixed together so the wood is mixed up. Except for the oak I try to keep that separate but when I make bundles will toss in a few pieces.
That's a good splitter, I can split Elm with mine, but it works at it. What's worse than Elm (in my experience) is Sweet Gum...sheesh. Had a job once splitting 3 big Oaks, a big Hickory and a good size Sweet Gum. Split 4 rounds of the Sweet Gum and gave up on it. The splitter would go through it, but it was just a stringy mess, no real 'fire wood' chunks. Never again lol.
BTW. I hope you continue with your bags for the firewood. They really look a lot better than plastic wrap. As soon as I can get on a live show I will give some more $ for them.
The Cord King is a sweet machine for sure. I end up with such a variety of logs and diameter that the splitter works good....plus I'm not moving the volume a Cord King can put out...lol
Just came upon a bunch of elm myself. Didn't know what type of wood it was until I saw your video. Is elm ok to burn in a indoor wood burning stove? Thanks for the videos. Very informative! A big knuckle bump to your little big boss man who always seems to be there to lend a hand. 🤜🤛
Hey David....thanks for the comment and for watching. From what I know Elm is pretty decent firewood, know of a few people who burn it in their stoves. I'll give the lil Boss Man a fist bump...he is turning out to be a nice little helper! :-)
yes indeed I do...I've been eyeing up a few different options...also need to work on finding something that then can move the trailer around. If I'm not in a rush to get the trailer empty I'll split into my lawn tractor cart, but then I end up stopping so much cuz it fills up quick. That's why sometimes I just run it all thru and pile it up on the ground to pick up later...prolly ends up being same amount of time but I don't have to shut the splitter down.
I split the wood throw it on the hay wagon from there I stack it that way I don’t have to bend over very much I don’t t have a log lift on my huskee splitter but I have a boom on a trailer to pick up the big logs
I’ve been looking for one of your videos it describes what model of splitter you bought. Talked with Dana at Wolf Ridge yesterday as we’re looking to get one. Over 60% of the word we get here and Utah is elm. Thanks
Yep, ya got that right...I've been looking into a few options, but then I also need something to pull the trailer around with...lol....ohh the list just keeps growing...hahaha. Thanks for the comment and for watching.
I was curious to know how many cubic feet of wood you had in the pile. I realize the value of an educated or experienced guess, but if your (my) experience is limited how can I tell accurately? I looked on line to find the formula to determine the volume of a cone (pile) in cubic feet. I plugged in a value for the radius at 3 feet and a value for the height of 4 feet. I came up with 45.89 cubic feet. A cord is 128 cubic feet. So I think you have a little bit more than a face cord (minus an allowance for space between pieces) of split wood in the pile. Does that line up with your estimate? The value for the allowance must be as accurate and consistent as we can get it to be useful. I'll search online to see if I can find any information on setting an allowance.
Think you are about right with your estimate....I ended up stacking it but didn't really measure it out after I stacked it...plus added in to half stack row so was hard to tell where it really started.
Elm is hit or miss when it comes to splitting. I just cut up a red elm the other day. Split it all by hand. A week ago I cut a white elm i needed a to use the splitter lol. Alot depends on the location they grow.
What’s up wood hound Sr? Tell them doubters to put down there sisters Barbie toy of a splitter and get a real one if they think hydrolic can’t spit elm!!!!😆😆😆
I live in an urban area so all my wood is curb found. lots of oak, peacan mulberry and some of every thing with leaves. after 6 years of hand splitting. I got a 2 crd load dumped by a tree service of elm I split the smaller stuff ok. but the bigger rounds had no give even with wedge and a 12 lb sledge. so I've got a good deal on an iron oak 34 ton splitter. It split all of about a cord down with no issues. some of the crotches came apart with what I would call a combination of cutting, shearing and delamination more than splitting. I still like to manual split but use the hydraulic splitter to handle the big and knotted stuff.
lol....yeah, maybe....or I did also post to Facebook which I haven't done in awhile so that could have drawn in few more views....not sure, but I'll take it..hahaha
The smaller splits are for what I sell for recreational burning - camping, fire pits, etc. What I split for my personal use I do split larger. Almost everything that isn't Oak goes to the road side stand inventory and is split smaller....also makes it easier for handling and dries faster. Thanks for the comment and for watching.
Snarfelcrotch gets me every time. I truly love the comical nature in your videos. Best wishes from Missouri
I really like your sense of humor most of all and the organized way you do your processing, always! I could see from the stringiness of the elm through your splitter that it might be tough to do by hand but I have never had any to split. I guess it just not a prevalent tree in Tennessee.
Thanks...yeah that Elm can be a real pain to split. I think I did luck out a bit with this stuff being so green, didn't split too bad. Still a bit stringy tho.
Thanks for stopping back in the archives and watching.
i lived in china maine back in the 70 s , we had dutch elm disease. i had at least 15 elms on my property. the largest had a butt of 3 feet, 70 feet in the air. i had the ones near the house profesionaly taken down, the rest i dropped . i split them all by hand with a maul and a wedge, that was a bitch let me tell you. only thing harder to split is beech. i was this skinny guy, 6 feet 2 inches , 160 lbs but i guess i must have been a little strong then. i split 14 cords a year for 37 years by hand, and i loved every minute of it. nothing is more satisfying than working up a cord of wood by hand. i still have that wedge, i had to put it in the forge a few time s and pound out the mushrooming around the top and re tempor it, cause those bits can fly off and cause some pain, but it is all fun. i wish i could do it all over again but i cant cause that is the way it goes. my advice to you is to appriciate every minute have out in the woods and working up that wood. merry Christmas to you and your wife and kids. thanks
Awesome splitter! now all you need is a small Kubota with a front end loader , Diesel, 4x4, )With a couple thousand down, you can buy one for $100/month. Then you can pull your splitter around, load the splits in the bucket and dump them wherever, transport the rounds in the fel, etc. Use your profits from this year to set you up with a 18hp Kubota-that's all you need, and you'll quadruple your production. I guarantee it! You'll have everything paid for in no time and will be buying logging truck loads! Good luck! I love your snagglecrotch definition!
Yep that's one of my 2020 plans is to find a tractor...still trying to narrow down which make and model. Thanks for the feedback and for watching.
Your wolf ridge splitter is a beast. And nice looking wood.
Thanks big D fan...yes it sure is! :-)
I really like the way you always analyze your time and motions to optimize every step of your operation. So, my prediction was right on the chipper. Hah! It looks really easy to operate and if my guess is right, you will have one after this trial is over and maybe me too.
That’s a nice splitter and I definitely think that narrow wedge helps a lot. I burn a lot of elm and yes, it is tough to work with but it makes nice firewood.
Wow that splitter is such a beast!
It’s relaxing watching you split that wood!🤣 I enjoy that stuff too man! Just found your channel
Hey welcome to the Back 40...glad ya found the channel and glad to hear you're a fellow Wood Hound my friend!! lol 😀👍🍻
Congrats on 500 subs!
Great setup.you got options either a pallet under splitter to catch wood or pull truck around and throw into it. Just got a tractor so i load trailer then fill bucket as i split.yep i miss splitting by hand but the machinery helps me get so much more done!
yeah sometimes I just let the wood pile up at the end, and sometimes I split into my cart. Eventually I'd like to add a tractor of some sorts to the operation as well.
Thanks for the feedback and for watching...appreciate it!
If I had the money I would buy a Wolf Ridge like that one. I don't think the motor even slowed down on the Elm. Good video
Thanks Larry...yeah it didn't struggle at all with it.
I'm 73 years old now and I've been heating my dwellings with woodstoves since 1983, and one winter I had two cords of elm, which put out such low heat (so that I had to reload the stove every two or three hours) that I determined never to rely on elm again for heat. I live in North Alabama which has the highest number of different varieties of trees of anywhere in the US, so I can pretty much pick and choose what kind of trees to cut, and my all-time favorite is Locust (either honey locust or black locust), and my second favorite is red oak. Sugar Maple is great but is hard to come by where I live. Hickory is pretty good but it goes to coals too fast so that on really cold days I have to empty the coals out of the woodstove in order to make room for more wood. Dogwood is one of the best, but it's usually kind of small and therefore burns up too fast. Locust is far and away my favorite because it burns evenly and doesn't go to coals too fast, and it lasts twice as long as hickory in the woodstove, especially if I'm burning locust sticks with the bark on them.
I've heard of black locust being the king of firewoods, but I've never dealt with or had any around to cut or split. Up here our Shagbark Hickory is just a bit better than the Oak...burns hot & long.
I mostly move the Elm for recreational burning...camping, fire pits, etc. works nice because once it dies and sheds its bark its nice and clean for moving around....like in car trunks & such.
Thanks for the feedback and for watching...haven't seen you in the comments so guessing you may be new to the channel....glad you found it and hope you enjoy!
@@Back40Firewood ~ Three other hardwoods that are about as good as locust are hawthorn, persimmon, and dogwood, but they're nowhere near as easy to find as locust.
And then too, there is osage orange (aka bowdock), which is the hottest firewood I've ever burned, but it makes so much creosote that I no longer burn it in my woodstove. Plus when you open the door of the stove to load in more wood thousands of sparks come flying out (I used to love the look on my cat's face when that happened).
Several years a guy who owns a tree service told me about a friend of his who bought one of those el cheapo Franklin Woodstoves made in China (I think maybe he bought it at Lowe's), and one cold night he loaded it with osage orange and it burned a hole through the bottom of the stove. :O)
Jim Yost you sir obviously have experience. As do I, locust smells terrible. You forgot to mention fart fragrance and splitting can be a bear if your makin kindleing. Maple is very consistent splits nice makes much heat lasts as coals beautiful fragrance. Cherry is good but smells like strong campfire. Ash is fantastic but doesn’t do anything stellar. Oak is strong heat.
@@ericharris893 ~ Locust smells like a garbage fire until the bark burns off, then it smells the way it smells when you're toasting bread in a toaster. It smells really good and it puts out as much heat as hickory but it doesn't go to coals real fast like hickory does. It's just about my favorite firewood, especially in really cold weather because it puts out so much heat.
Jim Yost I respect a clear and accurate description my good man. It’s true about the toast
Nice log splitter
Thanks....and thanks for watching. :-)
It spit better than I thought it would have a good day
I think having it as green as it was helped.
Splits well! Good video
Thanks, yep split down nicely.
that wolf ridge is bad to the bone
Indeed it is brother...built like a tank!
Cool stuff.
You should start a pile, just for the bundles, elm, ash, little bit of cherry and oak, that way you can just set up and create like 50 bundles at a time in 1 location and with different types of wood?
Just an idea!
Hey Joshua, great idea and thanks for the feedback. I actually do have most of my 'mixed' piles mixed together so the wood is mixed up. Except for the oak I try to keep that separate but when I make bundles will toss in a few pieces.
That's a good splitter, I can split Elm with mine, but it works at it. What's worse than Elm (in my experience) is Sweet Gum...sheesh. Had a job once splitting 3 big Oaks, a big Hickory and a good size Sweet Gum. Split 4 rounds of the Sweet Gum and gave up on it. The splitter would go through it, but it was just a stringy mess, no real 'fire wood' chunks. Never again lol.
BTW. I hope you continue with your bags for the firewood. They really look a lot better than plastic wrap. As soon as I can get on a live show I will give some more $ for them.
I love my Cord King even more now after watching this one cut wood
The Cord King is a sweet machine for sure. I end up with such a variety of logs and diameter that the splitter works good....plus I'm not moving the volume a Cord King can put out...lol
Just came upon a bunch of elm myself. Didn't know what type of wood it was until I saw your video. Is elm ok to burn in a indoor wood burning stove? Thanks for the videos. Very informative! A big knuckle bump to your little big boss man who always seems to be there to lend a hand. 🤜🤛
Hey David....thanks for the comment and for watching. From what I know Elm is pretty decent firewood, know of a few people who burn it in their stoves.
I'll give the lil Boss Man a fist bump...he is turning out to be a nice little helper! :-)
Big Rounds, I don't think my Champion could handle some of those.
How long did that lodge take to split I've been looking at getting that splitter
Think the cycle time is like 7 - 8 seconds...it'll split as fast as you can feed it.
You need another trailer at the end to catch the wood coming off so you don't have to bend over so much and so you don't have to handle it twice
yes indeed I do...I've been eyeing up a few different options...also need to work on finding something that then can move the trailer around. If I'm not in a rush to get the trailer empty I'll split into my lawn tractor cart, but then I end up stopping so much cuz it fills up quick. That's why sometimes I just run it all thru and pile it up on the ground to pick up later...prolly ends up being same amount of time but I don't have to shut the splitter down.
I split the wood throw it on the hay wagon from there I stack it that way I don’t have to bend over very much I don’t t have a log lift on my huskee splitter but I have a boom on a trailer to pick up the big logs
Like butter
Ohhhhh yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaahhhhhhhhhh! lol
I’ve been looking for one of your videos it describes what model of splitter you bought. Talked with Dana at Wolf Ridge yesterday as we’re looking to get one. Over 60% of the word we get here and Utah is elm. Thanks
I have the 28 Ton Compact Commercial machine...doesn't really matter which model you go with they are all great machines.
White elm is good for morel mushrooms that's about it. 😆
You need another trailer on the split end so all you have to do is hook up to it pull it where your going to stack it no pick up off the ground Bud 💪
Yep, ya got that right...I've been looking into a few options, but then I also need something to pull the trailer around with...lol....ohh the list just keeps growing...hahaha.
Thanks for the comment and for watching.
Probably 80 % of the wood i split is elm. I would really like to have that log spliter you have there.
Elm is a decent firewood....just can be a pain to split. Think having it as green as it is helps.
Should have called this “Nightmare on Elm Tree, or not? “
hahahaha.....YES!!! Dang I should've....lol....that would've been great!!
You probably answered this a bunch of times but what model is that splitter
Its the 28 Ton Compact Commercial.
Thanks.
I was curious to know how many cubic feet of wood you had in the pile. I realize the value of an educated or experienced guess, but if your (my) experience is limited how can I tell accurately? I looked on line to find the formula to determine the volume of a cone (pile) in cubic feet. I plugged in a value for the radius at 3 feet and a value for the height of 4 feet. I came up with 45.89 cubic feet. A cord is 128 cubic feet. So I think you have a little bit more than a face cord (minus an allowance for space between pieces) of split wood in the pile. Does that line up with your estimate? The value for the allowance must be as accurate and consistent as we can get it to be useful. I'll search online to see if I can find any information on setting an allowance.
Use 128 cubic feet for stacked wood and 170 for loose piled
Think you are about right with your estimate....I ended up stacking it but didn't really measure it out after I stacked it...plus added in to half stack row so was hard to tell where it really started.
Elm is hit or miss when it comes to splitting. I just cut up a red elm the other day. Split it all by hand. A week ago I cut a white elm i needed a to use the splitter lol. Alot depends on the location they grow.
Elem is the best wois to bore oak and ash wood maple if not dryer right is like cottob wood i call gogher wood load and come Bach hour later load more
BK40ty splittin the elm crotch. Splitters nice. Take care.
Thanks dude...stay cool brother!
how much does your splitter sell for
Could of put down a pallet first. Rearranging my yard too and bringing wood up to the house
yeah I was thinking of that, but I ended up stacking it anyways.
Well now I feel better, knowing a Wolfe Ridge splitter can do Elm.. But what about pine?? Can it handle that?? 😆
Now with the cold temps here I don't wanna put too much stress on it...I'll save the pine for Spring!
hahahahahaha
Pine is the easiest wood to split
@@highwatercircutrider
I know that.. Just giving back 40 a tough time.. Lol
Daniel Atkins too funny, lol...balsa is actually the easiest to split ( I stand corrected ). Hehe
@@highwatercircutrider
Haha.. Your funny, So I guess someone should stress out a Wolfe Ridge splitter with balsa.. Hahaha
Takes a lot of work out of processing firewood.
yeah is sure does....and makes quick work of it, leaving me time and energy to get more...and more...and more!! lol
What’s up wood hound Sr? Tell them doubters to put down there sisters Barbie toy of a splitter and get a real one if they think hydrolic can’t spit elm!!!!😆😆😆
Yo Travis....how goes it...what's this Sr. stuff am I looking that old on camera??? lol.....
Back 40 Firewood Naaa brother it’s just your the first of the wood hound family!!😆😆 and we’re all jr’s out here buddy!!!
Hahahahahaha...ohhh I see! 👍😀👍
Back 40 Firewood actually me and you are the same age! I believe in one of your vids you said you were 46 and I was born June of 73
I just split some elm. Looked nothing clean split wise like your elm 😂 was so dang stringy.
Only thing worse then elm is boxelder!
I've heard that....but haven't run into any boxelder yet to split....hoping maybe I do so I can put the Wolfe Ridge to the test.
Split some Sweet Gum lol
I live in an urban area so all my wood is curb found. lots of oak, peacan mulberry and some of every thing with leaves. after 6 years of hand splitting. I got a 2 crd load dumped by a tree service of elm I split the smaller stuff ok. but the bigger rounds had no give even with wedge and a 12 lb sledge. so I've got a good deal on an iron oak 34 ton splitter. It split all of about a cord down with no issues. some of the crotches came apart with what I would call a combination of cutting, shearing and delamination more than splitting. I still like to manual split but use the hydraulic splitter to handle the big and knotted stuff.
with your ear muffs on your head that way you look like princess lea!
lol....thanks, never thought of that. I am a big Star Wars fan, just not so much that I wanna look like her.....hahahahaha!
i would to see that machine split wet cottonwood
Looks like you triggered the algorithm with your title and thumbnail on this video
lol....yeah, maybe....or I did also post to Facebook which I haven't done in awhile so that could have drawn in few more views....not sure, but I'll take it..hahaha
Elm isnt any harder to split for a splitter....
Its just stringy
Don't split so small
Stove likes bigger splits lobes burn man
The smaller splits are for what I sell for recreational burning - camping, fire pits, etc. What I split for my personal use I do split larger. Almost everything that isn't Oak goes to the road side stand inventory and is split smaller....also makes it easier for handling and dries faster.
Thanks for the comment and for watching.
thats redelm not good ol knotty white elm