Exactly but it burns nice and hot, i also use it in my indoor bbq. But likeyou said its tough on the saw little PIA to split and chips from the bark beat up your face, thats why i say love hate relationship lol
It’s the only top notch BTU wood I have so I like to have a facecord each winter for the coldest nights.
Ash is great firewood. It's probably going to be 80% what I burn for the next several years. EAB hitting hard here. For supper cold temps I like a heavier hitter like hickory, locust, ironwood, sugar maple, oak, or ironwood, but ask keeps my house warm down to the teens. It does coal up nicely, I just wish it made nicer secondary flames.
While I agree with everything you have said about ash my favorite is still Osage orange. When I was young my dad got 10 cords one winter.
Yes! We burned it in a smoke dragon so we could burn it green. damm was it heavy. I could turn a stove cherry red in a hurry with that stuff. I told the story when I first joined about the tree the wood came from .... I believe it was 13 cords that came out of that tree. The trunk never got touched because my buddy couldn’t find a saw big enuff to cut it. It probably grew on the creek for a few hundred years. Wish I had counted the rings. Had he sawn the trunk it would’ve made incredible lumber. I love that color.
Can you guesstimate the DBH of that tree, I can't imagine 13 cords from a tree, especially a hedge. We call them Horse Apple trees or Bois d'arc (bo dark) trees.
I was very young but I’m gonna say 5 feet. I’ve never seen another hedge bigger than 24” in dia. It was right on the creek and had unlimited water supply forever. World record?
never seen hedge, As far as i know i doesnt grow around here unless a yard tree even then dont know it could be planted
