[AT] Need some help, hard starting CR950 Briggs / Ash

[Mike M]

Wife is on my keister to drop a dead Elm in our back yard. I like Elm as
firewood, but it is a pain the butt to split, even with a hydraulic
splitter, it's just so stringy. You'll need a hatchet to finish the split.

Mike M

On 2/16/2022 9:07 PM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
> I  should have been more clear... These are Chinese Elm that my
> parents and I planted in the early 1950's. Old and dying now the one I
> dropped this week was about 30" at about 30" stump height.
> I also intended to mention that the very small room I want to build is
> to  be well insulated and heated when needed, probably timer controlled.
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> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 8:11 AM Carl Gogol <cgogol1971 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>     Glad your splitter is back in service!  Surprised you have elm to
>     split.  Elm virtually disappeared in central NY in the early to
>     mid-1960’s thanks to the Dutch elm disease.  Now the Emerald ash
>     Borer has to this point exceeded 90% kill of the ash near
>     Syracuse.  I was lucky to get ours harvested just a week ago.  The
>     Chinese started buying ash again and it has made it practical to
>     now sell.  I was told that among its other uses it is treated to
>     look like Chestnut (I think).
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>     Carl, Manlius NY
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>     On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 10:54 PM Indiana Robinson
>     <robinson46176 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>         I pulled the starter rope and it started right up... We split
>         about half a trailer load of dead but solid elm blocks. It ran
>         perfectly the whole time.
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