Green ash.

[Woodworks]

You're not alone Mark in thinking ash is overrated.

 

It's good firewood but not as good as beech when equally dry. When testing our seasoning logs I have noticed that after a year the beech is drier than the ash. One thing I will say in it's favour is it holds up well left in the round for a few years. Beech and birch will start to rot ASAP and the sap on oak rots out very fast but the ash will hold up really well.

 

Can only think the Delabodge and Huck don't know how to dry logs properly or the ash of a bygone era was different

[SamWhiting12]

I'm not disputing that ash is great firewood, or that the brash burns really well blah blah blah.

 

What I'm disputing is that green ash burns well.

I don't think it does, and I can't understand people's mania to have it to burn immediately, the day I deliver it!

 

Delabodge and Huck, you old boys must struggle like buggery to get a fire going if you're working in chestnut or hornbeam coppice!

Do you walk over to the next wood and fell an ash?!!!!!

 

That crappy firewood poem also slates elm, saying that even the flames are cold.

As Peter said, dead standing elm is pretty hard to beat.

 

 

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Its because they know you seasoned stuff isn't going weigh a ton, losing out on valuable weight

[Mark Bolam]

Funnily enough I delivered a load to a mate last year, snotty arb waste stuff, but bone dry.

He says they burnt really well, but his lass didn't like them 'because they were ugly'.

He ordered a load from another mate, a great lad, but basically a farmer knocking out logs in a quiet period.

I knew this stuff was chestnut felled 3 months earlier.

My mate said 'You could tell it was good stuff, it was really heavy'.

 

It didn't burn well, but they did look good.

 

 

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[Tilio-acerion]

There's a difference between using green ash to get a fire going in the woods/scrub - and yes it is good for that - but it's pointless burning it green on a stove/fire, and whilst it will, it's just a waste of energy. You old timers should stop reading crappy old poems and season your wood properly - it'll be a revelation (for you and your customers) :lol:

 

+ another for standing dead elm:thumbup:

[Daveyboy]

I am sat in front of my log burner, buring ash I felled 2 days ago.

 

And it is roasting in here.

 

I know it's only a poem, and written by some daft ape, but as they say - no smoke without fire.

[Peter]

Another one for dead elm:thumbup1: As long as its caught before it starts to go pithy.

 

Yes, you don't want to take the pith.

[skyhuck]

Why do some of you need to get offensive and throw insults?

 

I did not even know the poem when I first rated Ash.

 

Mark, have you ever tried burning none DED Elm?????? its among the wettest timber you will ever find and makes Poplar look like good fire wood, DED causes the tree to cut off its own water supply and the timber is then seasoned by gravity and the wind.

 

I've often found that those who have a weak augment become offensive to those who disagree.

 

Why ask people for their genuine, honest experience and the slag them off when they take the time to give it?? Shame on you

[skyhuck]

I am sat in front of my log burner, buring ash I felled 2 days ago.

 

And it is roasting in here.

 

I know it's only a poem, and written by some daft ape, but as they say - no smoke without fire.

 

Exactly, I felled and burnt Ash on the same day hundreds of times, burns lovely.

[Mountain man]

Why do some of you need to get offensive and throw insults?

 

I did not even know the poem when I first rated Ash.

 

Mark, have you ever tried burning none DED Elm?????? its among the wettest timber you will ever find and makes Poplar look like good fire wood, DED causes the tree to cut off its own water supply and the timber is then seasoned by gravity and the wind.

 

I've often found that those who have a weak augment become offensive to those who disagree.

 

Why ask people for their genuine, honest experience and the slag them off when they take the time to give it?? Shame on you

 

Out of curiosity I went through the whole thread, please show me the offensive and insulting posts.

[felixthelogchopper]

I am sat in front of my log burner, buring ash I felled 2 days ago.

 

And it is roasting in here.

 

I know it's only a poem, and written by some daft ape, but as they say - no smoke without unseasoned wood.

 

Fixed that for you.