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With all the white ash trees dying in the north east and spreading throughout the Midwest. I’ll be having no trouble getting wood for the coming seasons.

What is the storage of ash like? Had a friend tell me that is sucks up moisture. His firewood storage is horrible by any standards. If a guy splits it and keeps it off the ground with the top covered, I would assume it would last just as long as any other hardwood.
 

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With all the white ash trees dying in the north east and spreading throughout the Midwest. I’ll be having no trouble getting wood for the coming seasons.

What is the storage of ash like? Had a friend tell me that is sucks up moisture. His firewood storage is horrible by any standards. If a guy splits it and keeps it off the ground with the top covered, I would assume it would last just as long as any other hardwood.
It lasts just fine once it's split and stacked. They should be dropped within a year or 2 of not having any leaves. The bottom 15' seems to get soft if left standing more than a couple years
 

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It lasts just fine once it's split and stacked. They should be dropped within a year or 2 of not having any leaves. The bottom 15' seems to get soft if left standing more than a couple years

I had one in my yard and it started leaning towards the house that still had leaves on it. I hooked the winch to it and ended up pulling it right on down.

Sketchy mfers they are.
 

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Definitely don’t hang around the bottom of these when there dead.... when it starts going get the hell outta there.
 
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I’ve had ash split and stacked, top covered, for 4 years and burned great. The old dead standing trees like prior posts mentioned can be very dangerous. Punky trunks and limbs the size of ball bats breaking off as it comes down.
 

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The key is split, stacked, and PROPERLY COVERED. Had a friend have a whole bunch rot on her because the people who stacked it didn't tarp it right away then draped a tarp completely over it and to the ground while it was soaked. All the moisture had nowhere to go... IMG_7833.JPG
 

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Yeah I have no problem with the felling part.

So this friend of mine has a owb. And everything is 30 ish inches long with nothing split. The stack is three rows wide and 15’ high. On two sides he had it stacked tight to a retaining wall that is 4 feet high. I know there is little to no air flow through that stack and not being split he is really working backwards.

He is just referencing it to willow or cotton wood that acts so much like a sponge it will actually grow shoots after being stacked in a pile unless it’s split small to fully dry out.
 

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Yeah I have no problem with the felling part.

So this friend of mine has a owb. And everything is 30 ish inches long with nothing split. The stack is three rows wide and 15’ high. On two sides he had it stacked tight to a retaining wall that is 4 feet high. I know there is little to no air flow through that stack and not being split he is really working backwards.

He is just referencing it to willow or cotton wood that acts so much like a sponge it will actually grow shoots after being stacked in a pile unless it’s split small to fully dry out.
Skip the willow or cotton wood. Ash is much better firewood
 

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Three years after I stacked it there, the majority of that pile is rotten, full of fungal fruiting bodies, and worthless. The big logs on the end closest are black tupelo, most of it ash. It was never covered, don't know how it would have faredIMG_3860.JPG otherwise...
 

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If you are going to just stack up rounds strip the bark as it holds moisture into the wood , a classic example is birch, if you not strip at least a small strip of bark off a small branch or limb -in about 6 mo. it will be all mush inside the bark casing.
 

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I know birch is horrible for rotting if it’s not split.
 

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Interested in the OP's question as well.

Ash is for the most part undesirable as firewood in Croatia.
The forestry has difficulties getting rid of it, as such I might be able to source more affordable firewood with lesser wait time if I agree to accept ash logs.

Would this be a good way to store bucked and split ash for longer than one year?
Stack is about 1.2meter/47" wide, covered only from the top, the wood is fairly high off the ground.
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P.S.:
The pictured firewood is turkey oak, but I am considering to raise two or three more stacks like this one.
The turkey oak seems to like being stacked this way.
 
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White ash has a fairly good btu rating. Don’t know why is has such a negative following around here. A little stringy when splitting.
 

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That stacking method will work and I grab oak first, ash is second.
 

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We split and stick and cover on top. We have had good luck with it not rotting. We mix it with oak/hickory to heat the shop. Any punky/soft wood is discarded instead of fooling with. We have a huge supply if it here on the WMA.
 

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With all the white ash trees dying in the north east and spreading throughout the Midwest. I’ll be having no trouble getting wood for the coming seasons.

What is the storage of ash like? Had a friend tell me that is sucks up moisture. His firewood storage is horrible by any standards. If a guy splits it and keeps it off the ground with the top covered, I would assume it would last just as long as any other hardwood.
Yes, keep it off the ground and rain off and it will last a long time. If it's under a roof probably last several years easily. Mine seems to dry to 20-25% moisture in 6-9 months left stacked and uncovered.
 

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He is just referencing it to willow or cotton wood that acts so much like a sponge it will actually grow shoots after being stacked in a pile unless it’s split small to fully dry out.
Absolutely inaccurate. It dries fast. Most people say it dries in the amount of time it takes to fall and hit the ground. Most people in the east consider Ash to be the only wood you can cut and burn in the same day. It's not ideal but it's been done a lot.
 

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Interested in the OP's question as well.

Ash is for the most part undesirable as firewood in Croatia.
The forestry has difficulties getting rid of it, as such I might be able to source more affordable firewood with lesser wait time if I agree to accept ash logs.

Would this be a good way to store bucked and split ash for longer than one year?
Stack is about 1.2meter/47" wide, covered only from the top, the wood is fairly high off the ground.
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P.S.:
The pictured firewood is turkey oak, but I am considering to raise two or three more stacks like this one.
The turkey oak seems to like being stacked this way.
Yes, I stack my firewood (mainly ash) into rows 6' tall on top of pallets and leave uncovered. Mine get full sun and wind. I make sure no brush or tall grass goes next to the stacks. It dries well. I move it to covered storage in late summer before the rainy fall season kicks in. Moisture is 18-20% by the time it's ready to burn.
 

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I have been burning EAB killed Ash here in SE Michigan for nearly 20 years. I do not attempt to fall and cut up more than I can burn in a year.

I attack any that falls on its own (roots rot away and can't support the tree in a wind.) as quick as I can get to them first. Then I cut (fall) what i need to make it thru the winter.

I am not a finger printing fan so handle it as little as I need to. I hand split with a maul or sledge and wedge to get in the trailer and across the creek where the power splitter is to split if needed.

I just pitch it in a pile untill I bring it in to burn.

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Cut this one early last spring. It had been dead 15 years.

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May have been a bit punky the first couple inches.

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You can get an Idea how solid a dead standing tree is by whacking it with the back of a splitting maul, fiskers or a single bit axe.

I am about out of dead ash. This year will about finish it off in my woods I believe.

The Elm is next to go, growns about 10 years and dies here.

:D Al
 
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