All I took was 5 foot of the biggest trunk for test cuts. It’s a buddies place, pretty remote. He was worried about the driveway being blocked and has about 20 dead ash he wants gone. Told me to drop them and leave them as long as driveway was clear. He can cut up anything on the ground for firewood. After 3 on the ground he looked a bit panicked at the work he had ahead of him and didn’t want anymore down. I was just starting to have fun so I bucked it all up and left.
That's great, and great burning wood as well as good testing wood. I've been using that ash log in my videos quite a while, it's big enough to see what changes are making the biggest difference without a stopwatch.
Most guys don't know how hard that stuff is!
From what I can tell, the bigger stuff that was already killed by the eab seems to be a little punky until you get 15' or so up the tree. Ash that were cut down before the bugs got to them are hard like oak after a few years.
