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  • December 22, 2009 at 3:02 pm #41207
    mitchmaine
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    cutting a new pole for my scoot this morning. saw a nice straight elm about the right size yesterday by the crossing into the woodlot. never tried elm before. it won’t rot. you can tie it into a knot before it will snap. i’ve always used ash or maple. even though it still goes in the stove at the end, i wonder if i haven’t cut a lot of good wood for poles in the last few years. any thoughts?
    anyway, hope you are all happy and healthy, and your families, and animals, and animals families are all well. my christmas gift to you all is a saying my dad used alot when we’d run into each other. he’d say “who ate first this morning, you, or your horses?” i think it was his way of showing affection, although it was hard to tell sometimes. merry christmas. mitch

    December 22, 2009 at 11:36 pm #56361
    mink
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    i had the sawmill down the road cut me an elm pole for the bob-sled i just made , it seems better than the ash i had cut this summer as that ash developed a big split . maybe it dried to fast or something , come spring im going to paint it. ….mink

    December 23, 2009 at 12:21 am #56360
    ngcmcn
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    Mitch,
    Thanks for the nice seasons greeting. As for poles, i’ve used red oak, hornbeam(hard to find straight but they last and can be a smaller diameter) maple, ash(ash seems to go quick), don’t think i’ve tried elm, yet. Tough stuff its what they used to make wheel hubs out of………burns like a church yard mold in the stove. I wood have to say that the hornbeam poles have been the most durable, strong and long lived of the ones i’ve used on my forecarts.
    I was all set to drive the six miles to home after mowing at MOFGA last summer when my fore cart pole finally gave up………slipped a piece of 4” pvc over it and because of the D-ring tension , it held to get me home.

    pax

    neal maine/vt

    December 23, 2009 at 12:50 am #56359
    Carl Russell
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    Elm is very tough, but I agree with Neil about Ironwood. It is a very close relative to elm anyway, just a little harder, and stronger.

    Carl

    December 23, 2009 at 11:35 am #56362
    mitchmaine
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    thanks guys, got it in yesterday. a little bigger peice of wood than i wanted. slabbed it down with the saw. still looks a little gaumy. but it’s in.

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