Oh. Ps: if it’s green in the photos, it’s freakin’ invasive-a$$ buckthorn. Gets green earlier than other species, stays green longer. Advantage, buckthorn. Mr. Stihl and some liberally applied poison are the great equalizers.
Ok guys - a brief counterpoint. I have some ash here that I put on the splitter yesterday and it was STRINGY. This stuff split like butter. No strings attached, as it were. The Wife is googling and she says it ain’t white oak. And I believe The Wife. And since when has the internet lied? Further image searches confirm it’s ash. No wonder it’s almost ready to go! Thanks y’all.
That is all ash, my friend. Dead and down ash can mean dry enough to burn right away, in 2 months, or a year; it's hard to say. Let the MM weigh in. Even if it's below 20%, personally I'd give the fresh splits a couple months to dry further, but that's me.
Warner Interesting. It was an enormous tree from our back yard. Shaded the whole house and dropped little branches and debris constantly on to the roof and deck. We didn’t dig it. We had it removed. If ONLY we had had the tree service leave us all the wood! But we DID hang on to some. And it was supposedly ash - or else the prior owner was inoculating the wrong species against EAB! We still have receipts and we can see on the leftover wood where the treatments occurred. Now I’m throughly puzzled!
I've gotten plenty of stringy ash here before, especially if it's fresh. If they've been dead for a while they get mealy, which takes some of the stringiness out of them.
We’re with you. We’re hopeful it’ll be ready to go by the time it’s truly cold here in South Central WI.
Nah just lucky! I've been reduced to noodling ash before I had my splitter. It was similar to a stubborn batch of white oak, but not as bad as elm.
Stringy ash. Monster maul just bounced off it. No splitter at the time. Had to noodle the rounds apart. You're lucky you've only had to cut the straight grained ones that pop right apart.
I got what you were saying, the huh was all the ash I have had split with ease. Never had any big fat ashes tho.
Yeah it can go either way...usually not too bad though. I've had some ash that made me double check to make sure it wasn't elm, well, almost anyways! I think they tend to be yard trees, and the tough rounds are from crotch area, or had large limbs.
Janesville, huh? I used to live in the Kennedy Apartments on Kennedy Rd almost a couple decades ago. Lived there a couple years.
