So earlier this week there was a pretty hefty storm where I live and it blew down a tree that was in my yard. I'm at school so my mother called and asked if I would want to keep the wood for bow making. I knew the tree was about 14" in diameter and figured if it blew over that easy then it probably wouldn't be too good for bow a bow. So I told her she could just get rid of it. When I came home this weekend I looked at the stump and the rings were super thick, about 3/4". I thought, "WOW! That must have been ash or something." So when I talked to my mother about it she said that the tree was alive and that the guy who cut it up said it was elm! Now I know that there are different species of elm but I just thought there was no way the storm would have taken out that big of a living tree. Could this have been a species of elm that isn't so good for bows or did I miss a mother load?
