Ash fire wood

[37 chief]

I may have a chance to get some ash fire wood. How is ash for burning in a stove for heat? Thanks Stan

 

[Dave41A]

Real good. Seasons up great. Splits nice. Burns hot. I like it. Great timber, too. Too bad we're losing so many ash trees.

 

[Paul swpa]

Burns fine, good heat output, but there is a reason it's called ash. Paul

 

[glennster]

how much do you want? i lost at least 50 trees from the beetles

 

[M Nut]

Have burnt ash in our wood stoves in MN as long as I can remember. Excellent firewood.

 

[Traditional Farmer]

I've burned some the last couple years,good to get a fire going but burns up too quickly and doesn't produce the heat good firewood does like Locust,hickory,Oak or even cherry

 

[jhwis]

Paul is correct on the ash. It leaves no coals.

 

[caterpillar guy]

We have lost most of our Ash trees. Yet we have gained a bunch of Elms now some almost big enough to log for lumber now. Dad and grandpa cut most all the Elm, back when the Dutch Elm disease went through in the mid 60's or there about. Ash is good wood for lumber or fire wood.

 

[RM-MN]

Which ash? Black ash and green ash are dense wood, not as dense as oak but close and make good firewood. White ash is much less dense. There was an old poem about firewood of which I only remember part that went something like, Ash dry or ash green makes a fire fit for a queen which I take to mean something like white ash as it has a much lower moisture content and would burn as fresh cut.

 

[rick n ohio]

Ash is great firewood I got a load on the trailer if you want me to head that way might take me a couple days to get there

 

[RedMF40]

(quoted from post at 19:55:24 04/16/23) I may have a chance to get some ash fire wood. How is ash for burning in a stove for heat? Thanks Stan

Burns hot and fast, easy to split. You ll get used to stoking the stove. I have a few years supply courtesy of the emerald ash borer (EAB). Gerrit

 

[EFV]

Ash wood wet or ash wood dry, a king will dry his slippers by.

 

[Tim in New York]

Thats (white ash) pretty much all I have been burning here the last 5 years or so. It holds the fire just fine overnight in our stove, I don't notice much difference from burning beech or oak as far as heat output. BTU chart says it right there with beech and just slightly less than hard maple. I do sort out pieces of ironwood or hard maple to use on really cold nights when it gets around zero or below.

Tim

 

[Russ from MN]

We have lots of it in N MN, but it's back ash, and the bug hasn't gotten here yet, but it probably will, as the winters aren't as cold as they used to be. It's one of the most popular firewoods in our area, probably because it looks like oak. It also has a beautiful grain, and is used some for making furniture. It is used some in the pulp and paper industry. It doesn't have much value, I don't think we get over $10 a cord stumpage for it. Here is some blowdown that I salvaged for firewood a couple of years ago. The larger logs I gave to my cousin who took them to a sawmill, and then made a dining room table from the lumber.

 

[Richard G.]

37, the borers are getting ours here in NW SC.
I am going to start cutting it and stacking for my shop heater.
It does leave a bunch of ash.
I'll stick to black locust in the house heater.
Burns like coal and little ash.

 

[Texasmark]

I have Ash trees on my place and burn the wood. It burns great but doesn't leave the coals like Oak and is not as dense so a given sized log might not produce the BTU total of an Oak log.

 

[parisspringstom]

We are losing our white ash trees to the the borers as well here in southwest Missouri as well. Happened in the last two years.

 

[Traditional Farmer]

It won't come close,a person selling firewood in my area would be hard pressed to sell any Ash then it'd have to be very cheap.

 

[redtom]

I'll take all I can get. Burns hot and clean.

 

[Brian G. NY]

(quoted from post at 12:43:03 04/17/23) Thats (white ash) pretty much all I have been burning here the last 5 years or so. It holds the fire just fine overnight in our stove, I don't notice much difference from burning beech or oak as far as heat output. BTU chart says it right there with beech and just slightly less than hard maple. I do sort out pieces of ironwood or hard maple to use on really cold nights when it gets around zero or below.Tim

I agree....I like Hop Hornbeam (Ironwood) and Hickory the best but for the last couple of years I've lost quite a few White Ash from the Emerald Ash Borer so I guess I'll be burning a lot more of it. I think there will be a glut of Ash firewood in the next few years.
It splits very easily with a maul....almost quicker than starting up the splitter. Because of it's straight grain, White Ash makes a very neat and tidy woodpile.