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Nat67 said:
I'm really glad you picked up on that , Its got to be one of the hardest logs to split on account of its stringyness ! To be fair to my old man tho , I was racing schoolboy motocross thru those years and if I didn't split and stack the logs , I didn't go racing . I'm sure he must have researched for the hardest logs to work , coz at 13 years old , I was bloody strong !
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Been splitting firewood since I was a lad. Two of my sons were in the logging and firewood business for awhile. Each year they would hold a party with a firewood splitting contest as a friendly competition. Ten or twelve large blocks were setup. Each to be split completely 4 ways with time penalties for incomplete splits. Competitors were young bucks. Except for the returning champion four years running, me(even after shoulder surgery).
Half the entry fees were given to charity and the firewood made was raffled off for church fundraiser.
 
Nat67 said:
fortunately, not too much of that around these parts . Elm on the other hand was plentiful in the early and mid 80s due to the clearing of diseased trees !
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Interesting, when I was 5 or 6 years old is when I remember the saws running all day, I'd say by 1965 the elms were all gone in Western NY where I grew up.
 
Tripps said:
Interesting, when I was 5 or 6 years old is when I remember the saws running all day, I'd say by 1965 the elms were all gone in Western NY where I grew up.
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Not being an arbourist , I can't be sure of my facts . But I do believe the Elm disease was sporadic and fairly isolated until the early 80s here when it started to spread ? Now they are felling acres of Ash , due to Ash die back disease, and now so I am told a similar disease has been found in our native oak . The apparent culprits for this , so I'm told , are garden centres . Importing foreign species and the diseases carried with them !
 

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