Wow, that's hard to believe from the pics, but you never know about pics, I guess...? Granted, the part where the trunk broke off when it fell doesn't look promising, and when banches break off in that manner, flat all the way across the width, it's not a good sign.
I don't see any punk to speak of on those splits however, and those pics look pretty good on my monitor, like your camera is getting good images.
Is the bark tight on the wood? Looks like it, and those half-rounds in the back look pretty good as well except for a couple spots on the ones on the left end, and some uneven color and appearance (water absorption?) on the right end half-rounds.
How did the saw go through them, like a hot knife dropping through a room-temp stick of butter or cutting at normal speed for Ash? It cuts pretty fast in any case, but I can tell when I'm hitting punky trash.
Some folks might be a lot pickier that I am about what's good wood and what is gone.
I had some hard Maple rounds sitting across the road from a yard tree, uncovered for three years. Like Ash, Maple doesn't hold up too well. I ended up discarding about 20% of the wood, which about broke my heart.
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Here's a couple pieces that are next to the stove, ready to be used. The top one is solid wood, although slightly spalted. The bottom one is pretty spotty, lighter in weight, but surprisingly it still has a good bit of wood that I cannot sink my thumbnail into. I use a split of that trash on the front of a new load to kick it off, since it catches fire very quickly.
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