Elm has a reputation for bouncing around the wood lot with the guy
handling the splitting mall trying to keep up with it.
-jc
On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 01:24 PM, Met History wrote:
> "Most such places [dry ledges, often at ridgetop, where very little
> soil remained] were used as farm wood lots, where pine was culled for
> timber, chestnut for fence rails, hemlock for bark, sugar maples for
> sap, and much of what remained for firewood, avoiding resinous soft
> woods and elm. A good size farmhouse in New England burned up to
> thirty-five cords of wood per year."
>
> What's wrong with elm? Christopher
>
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