Bubbly Ash

[Jackkk]

Anybody help with what’s causing this? Already dropped a couple of large limbs.

Cheers.

[Woodworks]

Got plenty of ash like that on the farm. I was told it was canker https://www.plantwise.org/KnowledgeBank/Datasheet.aspx?dsid=45003

[Squaredy]

3 hours ago, Jackkk said:

Anybody help with what’s causing this? Already dropped a couple of large limbs.

 

Cheers.

 

If the tree is really well infected it can yield amazing timber - maybe as beautiful as burrs.

[devon TWiG]

Ha Ha , I have never heard it called "bubbly Ash" .....it is canker , it will create weakness in stems and failure is quite common , I turn quite a lot of wood and the pic shows a bowl 13-14 inch dia made from cankered Ash ...

[Dan.masterman]

I got the same in my woodland. I,ve owned it a year now , was quite worried to start but now that I have felled a few infected trees, the timber is still surprisingly good, only seems to be limited to bark and cambium layers, the wood is still solid and burns and turns well! There are a few really infected trees in the mix but these have just shed limbs and retrenched back to major framework and pretty wild epicormic growth but still standing strong (ish)

[timbernut]

Ha Ha , I have never heard it called "bubbly Ash" .....it is canker , it will create weakness in stems and failure is quite common , I turn quite a lot of wood and the pic shows a bowl 13-14 inch dia made from cankered Ash ...

Lovely bowl, DT. When I first looked i thought it was a ball on a platter!