Cotton wood Trees

[dennishoddy]

Elms are really bad if they’re next to your house (over time they’ll defeat both your sewer pipes and foundation), and they’re really hard to pull if they’re more than a few hours old. When I was a kid we had one that got started in the flower bed outside my bedroom window; it was no bigger around than a quarter of an inch, but we couldn’t pull that sucker out with a tractor. My dad and I stripped all the branches and bark off of it more than once, and I think he even got mad a cut it off at ground level once, but it was still there when my folks sold the place.

I swear we heard yelling in Chinese when we tried to pull that son of a gun. Those suckers send down deep roots.

Fortunately for us, all our elm trees died with some sort of blight a few years ago but one and it's really sick looking.
Worthless for firewood with very low BTU's, pops like crazy and is the only wood that turned the 5" I beam on my splitter into a horseshoe. Crazy grain that tears and doesn't split. I don't split elm anymore. It all goes to the burn pile.