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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: dragonman on February 18, 2015, 01:43:58 pm

Title: wych elm haul
Post by: dragonman on February 18, 2015, 01:43:58 pm

I noticed you guys over their like to post pics of your wood hauls...I was given a bunch of wych elm last week by some road workers clearing some roadside verges, asked em if I could take it and they said no problem. So heres a uk haul. Been splitting all day , heavy work..and here is the result Still more to split...It is very clean and pretty straight grained...a mixture of staves and billets...
Any uk bowyers want to trade some , get in touch. or I'll give billets for free,

Title: Re: wych elm haul
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on February 18, 2015, 01:46:47 pm

Nice! Elm is very good bow wood when used properly.

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Post by: osage outlaw on February 18, 2015, 01:52:38 pm

Nice haul!  I wish more UK bowyers would post pics of their wood hauls. 

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Post by: Blaflair2 on February 18, 2015, 01:57:00 pm

Man, some of em seem like lumber they're so straight

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Post by: Carson (CMB) on February 18, 2015, 02:00:04 pm

Nice Haul!  yeah, some very straight ones in there.

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Post by: Del the cat on February 18, 2015, 02:39:50 pm

Nice! I'll take a stave (or two) off your hands if I'm over your way at all, and similarly if you are near me you're wecomed to come and rumage through my stash.
I dunno what the difference between Wych Elm and regular Elm is... I suspect there is also some confusion from medieval text between Wych Hazel and Wych Elm where wood has just been referred to as Wych.
Looks like you have decent equipment, chain saws and the like...

@ Osage Outlaw some of you guys over the pond don't realise how some of us in the UK are confined to a near urban environment without recourse to chainsaws, farm equipment 4x4s etc and we have less free access to woodland etc. There's no way we'd have the stuff to harves that monster Osage of yours...
Everything is smaller over here.... when I went to the Classic you guys were all tripping over me 'cos I'm so small O:)  ;)
Any how good haul.
Del

Title: Re: wych elm haul
Post by: Lucasade on February 18, 2015, 02:42:26 pm

Excellent! Took me three months to get permission to cut one stem  >:(

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Post by: JonW on February 18, 2015, 02:43:31 pm

Nice pile of staves! I like the looks of those.

Title: Re: wych elm haul
Post by: sieddy on February 18, 2015, 02:56:35 pm

Sheesh kebab what a result!  :o
I'm UK based and would be very keen to take one or two of those off your hands!  :)

Title: Re: wych elm haul
Post by: half eye on February 18, 2015, 03:07:07 pm

OH Dragonman you smooth talker you......that is a nice batch of elm, sir 8) 8) or do ya'll call it a horde? >:D >:D
rich

Title: Re: wych elm haul
Post by: wizardgoat on February 18, 2015, 03:11:41 pm

Now that's a haul

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Post by: Springbuck on February 18, 2015, 03:23:52 pm

Good stuff.  You won't be disappointed.

Title: Re: wych elm haul
Post by: dragonman on February 18, 2015, 03:49:11 pm

cheers guys..

Del...wych elm has bigger leaves than english elm, and it is the only elm that grows here, it seems to be more resistant to the elm disease.
I told these tree butchers I wanted to make bows from it and they where very helpful and started cutting them in longer lengths for me, I got there at the exact time otherwise they would ave all been cut up.

Title: Re: wych elm haul
Post by: RyanR on February 18, 2015, 04:56:40 pm

Wow that's a pile of staves.

Title: Re: wych elm haul
Post by: stuckinthemud on February 18, 2015, 05:52:30 pm

How close to Cardiff are you?

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Post by: Del the cat on February 18, 2015, 06:12:36 pm

Yeah, I've heard sorry tales of good Yew cut into 3' lengths by idiots with chainsaws >:(.
Del

Title: Re: wych elm haul
Post by: okie64 on February 18, 2015, 06:49:34 pm

Nice haul! Looks like it split nice and clean.