Uses for Rowan / Mountain Ash

[djbobbins]

My father has got about an acre of pasture land which has naturally seeded with rowan trees over the last ten or fifteen years from some nearby mature specimens.

 

Some of the "seedlings" are now beefing up about, up to about 8 foot tall or so.

 

Whilst they're not ready for doing anything with yet, I was just wondering if the wood has any particular uses (i.e. in the way that alder does for clogs or charcoal, ash for axe handles, pop for getting rid of that firewood customer who always complained, that kind of thing)...

[Big 'Ammer]

The berries will make rowan jelly.

[slack ma girdle]

Rowan used to be used for tool handles, cog wheels, pulleys, and gun stocks

[Ian Leach]

I use rowan to carve spoons, walking sticks. Rowan jelly for the berries a dye with the bark.

 

Rowan use to be used for ship masts and poles, whips.

[sandy2210]

Rowan is known hereabouts as the witches tree as they used to hang the witches from them in days gone bye and still considered bad luck to cut one down I have worked with pro cutters who flatly refused to cut one down----so cut them at your own peril!!!!!!!!

[sean]

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/general-chat/13226-tree-month-rowan.html

[bareroots]

dig them out and sell them for big money. certainly more then spoons

[djbobbins]

dig them out and sell them for big money. certainly more then spoons

 

To whom?

 

If there are any buyers out there it would be a winner, there are bloody hundreds of the things at about height for going to a garden centre... they need some kind of thinning out and selling a few would be ideal.

[Highland Forestry]

You wouldn't catch me cutting Rowan - it's the witches tree!

 

I know the firewood is not anything special, other than that im not sure what uses it might have.

 

Legend has it that if you want somebody to fall in love with you, you should bury a lock of their hair under a Rowan tree...

[Dave Martin]

You wouldn't catch me cutting Rowan - it's the witches tree!

 

I know the firewood is not anything special, other than that im not sure what uses it might have.

 

Legend has it that if you want somebody to fall in love with you, you should bury a lock of their hair under a Rowan tree...

 

Rowan is very good firewood:confused1: