It nails screws and glues well and can be sanded and stained to a good finish.
Is the elm tree considered a hardwood.
In many areas elm trees have fallen out of favor due to the advent of dutch elm disease.
The wood is the hardest and heaviest of all elms.
Elm trees are therefore classified as soft hardwoods.
It dries well with minimum degrade and little movement in performance.
This fungal disease is spread by elm bark beetles and has been responsible for the demise of tens of millions of elm trees in north america and europe.
As a result disease resistant cultivars and hybrids have been sought out.
These trees grow between an average height of 80 to 100 feet or about 24 to 30 meters.
Indeed the key is to give the elm enough time to dry to become completely dry.
The texture and density of the wood a tree produces puts it in either the hardwood or softwood category.
Most hardwood trees are deciduous trees which lose their leaves annually like elm or maple.
Rock elm or cork elm is a deciduous tree native primarily to the midwestern united states and along the prairie and forest edge.
It is also very strong and takes a high polish which offers a wide range of uses notably shipbuilding furniture agricultural tools and musical instruments.
Softwood comes from a conifer cone bearing or evergreen trees such as pine or spruce.
Although the wood of most softwood trees is less dense than hardwoods and often contains more air pockets whether a tree is a.
The names hardwood and softwood can be deceiving and they don t actually refer to the strength or consistency of the wood.
Like the irish potato famine of the 19th century the lack of diversity proved fatal and many american elm trees have died.
Chinese elm tree softwood or hardwood.
Once it is cut and divided you need to spend plenty of time to dry.
The wood of red elm is fairly easy to work.
Hybrid elm trees may have characteristics from either of the parent trees confounding identification.
Other soft hardwoods.