Worth milling?

[Jonny Burch]

Got this Ash to do Monday. Would it be worth milling or firewood?!

 

Cheers, Jonny

 

[slackbladder]

Lots of interesting bits on there for turners but can't see it being much good for milling

Like the mid point lump looks full of character

[Rob D]

The worst case is it could be hollow but I reckon there could be some lovely colour in there...

 

 

I still stand by it'll be well worth milling - may be proved wrong but any chance you can post a pic looking 'up the butt' straight after it has been felled!

 

 

What'll you wager Jon?

[woody paul]

The worst case is it could be hollow but I reckon there could be some lovely colour in there...

 

 

I still stand by it'll be well worth milling - may be proved wrong but any chance you can post a pic looking 'up the butt' straight after it has been felled!

 

 

What'll you wager Jon?

 

DITTO. Once you put a saw throu base then you will know.

[kentjames]

Fell it with a view to keeping it whole and assess the timber, all else fails its lots of firewood

[Jesse]

Burn it Take me into the night and i'm a easy lover .

[Rob D]

Another thing that would worry me is that it's quite heavily buttressed, which again indicates rot in the heart. Compound that with the vigorous epicormic growth around the primary area of pruning and I reckon we're talking firewood here.

 

 

 

I reckon there may be a bit of rot but not enough to write the tree off... we shall see Monday Big J!

[Jonny Burch]

[Jonny Burch]

[agg221]

There's obviously a soft central core of rot, but if the dark coloured zone immediately outside it is hard then I would mill that. You'll get some great dark/light colour contrast boards out of it.

 

If that zone is soft, I'd lop firewood-length rings off it until I hit solid (or ran out of log) and stop when it was mostly solid, then start milling if there's enough left.

 

The other option, if you've got access to suitable kit, would be to run a single cut, right up the centre, and see how it looks, then decide.

 

I certainly wouldn't instantly firewood it though from that image.

 

Alec