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Mountain ash

guido

guido

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Hello,

After NASCAR day it was time to work. Cut about 1/2 cord at mountain ash in the A M then chopped it up after lunch. It was a good work out. Man is that wood dense! Should burn real good after it is seasoned,

GUIDO.
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Guido, wherever you are located, do the Mountain Ash trees get very big? Here in MI, they seem to be more of a decorative yard tree, and I can't say that I've ever seen a very big one, not to mention very many of them. They don't seem real popular around me anyway.

Ross
 
Hello RBoots,

It's my son's second house in the Poconos in Pa. 25 to 30 feet tall? at least 12" or more in diameter. Taller then the house, which is two stories with a basement. I think around the area could be bigger. I will have to look next time I go up. There are mountain ash on the left of the house,

Guido.
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the flooring in my moutain house in the Berkshires is random width ash which was logged off my land,sawed and kiln dried. It has a beautiful grain---i finished it with 5 coats of water based poly.
 
Ash is a good hot burning hardwood, smell is terrific. They will last for quite a years laying on the ground without rotting.
 
Identifying trees by their common names can cause confusion. Mountain ash is of the genus Sorbus and is a member to the rose family. I don't believe they ever grow large or straight enough for saw logs. There are several types of ash, all of the genus Fraxinus - a different tree all together. There is no similarity in their bark or seeds. Mountain ash is noted for its attractive, red, berry-like fruit.
 
Hello CGID,


My grandma used to say when looking at a bush, "If they are roses they will bloom". Stay tuned!

Guido.
 
Thanks Guido. The ones in my yard are only probably 8 inches in diameter and 20' tall. Like I said, not many around here, and the ones that sre, are yard decorations.
 
Thanks Guido. The ones in my yard are only probably 8 inches in diameter and 20' tall. Like I said, not many around here, and the ones that are, are yard decorations.
 
Hello RBoots,

Next timd I go I will take a picture of leaf and a branch. May be is not an ash. I compared leaf to a picture on a web side, and it looked just like a mountain ash? I have been wrong before,

Guido.
 
They don't do good around here . I had 2 and they got about 4" in diameter and died. We have a layer of blue clay about 6foot down and was latter told by landscaper they don't do good in clay.
 
It's not much to go on, but, from your picture of the chunks of wood it looks like "Yellow Birch" AKA Betula Alleghaniensis. Try looking that up and see if the description matches. Is it wet and heavy? Curls of bark make good fire starter?
 
Hello sms,

I think you are right! Looking at the picture again it sure looks like birch. There may be another kind of tree in there. What got me off track was the larger trees with bark looking more lime an oak. I did a very quick leave comparison with an ash tree leaf, I guess I was wrong. Been wrong before, still learning,

Guido.
 
This is Mountain Ash here in the Northeast......it grows wild but I bought this one as an ornamental and to feed the birds.
When the berries ripen, the birds (mostly Cedar Waxwings) will come in in flocks and strip it clean. Sometime in a single day.
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BTW, your wood does look like yellow birch....White birch is not much of a heat producer but my wife likes me to have some of that "pretty wood" on the hearth around the holidays.
Yellow birch, on the other hand is a good fire wood, rating right up there with maple according to the NYS Conservation Dept.
 
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