Is this ash?

If that tree is as big as it looks it could be. When they get real big they look a little different.
If you have a moisture meter, take a reading of a fresh split and tell us what it is.

Yes. You can see the pinhole on the flat cutside. Great fuelwood.....

Sure is ash - love to burn it - only problem I've had was a city of powder post beetles in one tree - made a huge mess of the stack! Cheers!

Nice! Cheers!

I thought the Ash Borer hole was much larger than that.

Sweet pic. What is the truck with the straight pipes

PA. Woodsman said:

Yes. You can see the pinhole on the flat cutside. Great fuelwood.....

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Ive heard this mentioned a few times. What/where is the pinhole that you are talking about?

Sinngetreu said:

Ive heard this mentioned a few times. What/where is the pinhole that you are talking about?

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It's on the flat cutside of the wood; look at the original pictures that he posted, and on the second shot looking straight at the flat cutside near the middle by the crack in the wood you will see a little round "pinhole"; I have found this to be consistent with Ash trees although I have seen this on a few other trees, but mostly on Ash.

PA. Woodsman said:

It's on the flat cutside of the wood; look at the original pictures that he posted, and on the second shot looking straight at the flat cutside near the middle by the crack in the wood you will see a little round "pinhole"; I have found this to be consistent with Ash trees although I have seen this on a few other trees, but mostly on Ash.

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That was how I was taught to identify ash, if I could only have one wood to burn I would choose ash, it seasons quickly and burns pretty damn good with some good coals afterward. I got some ash from my brother in law last March, he delivered it righty after cutting and splitting from a huge tree he took down. I checked it with my moisture meter in November and it was all below 18%, I ended up burning one cord in the fall and I saved the other cord for next fall.

I have read that White Ash has only 32% moisture green. I can see it being below 20% fairly quick if split and stacked to dry for a summer. I get some nice Black Ash up here. It sure is a slow growing tree, the last one I cut was fallen and I counted about 180 rings at its 22" base.

Beer's gonna taste good tonight Sully!

hermancm said:

I have read that White Ash has only 32% moisture green. I can see it being below 20% fairly quick if split and stacked to dry for a summer. I get some nice Black Ash up here. It sure is a slow growing tree, the last one I cut was fallen and I counted about 180 rings at its 22" base.

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180? Are you sure you weren't counting the "spaces" between the rings also?
Or were you counting the rings across the diameter? It should be counted by the RADIUS.

I can't imagine a 180 year old ash.

But I am not familiar with BLACK Ash.

I count from the center out. I've cut 80 yo Black Ash that was only 8" i have a picture here of some BA. I can't recall its diameter but I'm thinking it's around 9-10"

I have a better cut on the racks. Pictures pending.

DougA said:

I thought the Ash Borer hole was much larger than that.

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Doug, I'm not sure which picture you were looking at but the ash borer gets between the bark and the wood. In the center, that is usually caused by ants.

Sully that is Ash. Is that Snuff Mill road I'm looking at? Small world my man. I saw that ash yesterday