If you want stringing stuff split cottonwood wet man that’s a pain, today it only got to zero and I split some twentyfour inch oak logs with an axe one hit and it popped like a gun going off and I didn’t have to get a wedge to finish it, that was nice.

I find it easy to split as well. I believe ash was used a lot in snow shoe frames as well.

I have more than I can ever burn that's been killed off in southern mo. I'm not impressed with it as firewood. Lights easy and burns clean but doesn't seem to last in my stove. I find it works better in my old cook stove when I want to use it. Id rather burn oak or hickory to heat my house.

Ash burns quick.Great for kindling or to mix in with other harder wood.Also good for a quick fire if you just want to take the chill or dampness out of the house or cabin.Its not an all night burner like Oak or Cherry.

I used to burn a lot of it in my outside wood boiler. It's one of the only wood that burns decent even when it's green. I found it gave off good heat and had a nice smell to it when it burned. Doesn't give off as much ash as some of the other woods.

Ash is one of the few woods that can be burned green and doesn't produce much creosote.

I still don't like burning it green, you don't get near the BTU's that you do from dried ash.

I have a Peavey T60 guitar with an ash body.. Its heavy but plays wonderfully. Its profile is similar to a strat, but can be dialed in to sound like a Gibson.
Has Humbucker pickups. No worm holes though.

It’s going to be ashame because there’s a lot of stuff that was made from it like guitars, bats, it worked good as a cheaper hard wood.

I had 6 large ash trees live through the emerald ash borer infestation that came through our area around 6 years ago. One of those died last year. There's some hope that the resistant trees could throw resistant offspring. I had many hundreds of ash trees grow from all the seeds the trees put out when dying. The largest ones of those started dying last year, in large numbers. I wish I had a wood boiler or wood stove. There's no need to split them.

Ash lumber might have good value if stored past the current glut in the market.

Keith

If the lumber is still solid, ash makes very nice wood arrow shafts. Heavy, but very strong. They work fairly easily, the grain is usually petty darn straight. They take a little maintenance, but most wood arrows do.

You could start making caskets, ash caskets are nice!

Funny you said that John a guy just asked if I wanted to get into that business.

I have 30 acres of dead ash, maybe more,