Great score. Ash is my al around favorite, easy to light, split, bugs don’t like it and it will burn slow or hot depending on what your needing. It’s going to be missed.
Well I just picked this up to run a new tower style air blast sprayer for my orchard and I needed a bigger tractor that could properly ballast it on the 3 point with the hills involved. I DID NOT WANT ANYTHING TIER 4. Searched a while and got this one with 398 hours on it. It is a 2002 Case DX-33. Hard to believe it is 18 years old. It now has a whopping 416 hours on it. Runs like a top, smells like an old school diesel and rewards me with a big puff of diesel smoke for the first 30 seconds. Pretty huge difference from the Tier 4 motor which is in the lawn mower, (John Deere X758), That has virtually now smoke and runs much higher RPM but it doesn't smoke. This 33 HP seems to burn the same amount of fuel as the 24HP, roughly 3 quarts/hour.
That's a great bunch of wood. I would think more customers would want ash over oak. I get a bunch of ash, especially with eab around here on the other end of the state. I love a variety of wood, but if I had to, I could run only ash all season.
Well like it or not, some are going to get ash this year. Roughly 1/3 of what I cut this year is ash. The oak market is down and my logger buddies have been cutting maple and some softwoods which I have never seen them do before.
I agree with others. I like ash better than oak. Oak takes too long to season, and standing dead oak rots quickly.
Sorry you had to lower your standards Firewood Bandit If it weren't so far away, I'd have taken that ash so you wouldn't have had to.
