I can't believe I'm going to say this, so put your fingers in your ears, and hand me a bar of the strongest soap you can find to wash my mouth out. I may have to re evaluate my opinion on Ash as a firewood. My friend has 60 some dead Ash on her farm, most are leaning over a fence that keep her cattle out of a local river. Where I cut it, I can leave all the scraps, no clean up. One of my old UPS buddies asked if I could hook him up with some firewood, sure. So, I'm marking and cutting, and he's rolling rounds on my trailer. I've been taking the wood home, splitting, and stacking to sell. When I got to the last two pieces on the trailer, they were about 30" with a 10" hole in the middle, full of ants. Well, after several days of hard freezes, the ants were gone, maybe the neighbors chickens found them. I had them on the small trailer to take down to the burn pile. Even with the chains on the tractor the hill was too icy, and I needed the trailer, so I took it to the front porch and started loading it into the stove. Figured it would only be a couple hours and it would be gone. The chunks were split big for the fire pit, so only one piece would fit in the stove at a time. It was about 5 oclock and we were heading to a friends for dinner, and some one said , put more wood on the fire, we won't be home till midnight. I opened the door and another piece wouldn't fit. Got home around 12 and the fire had burned down just enough to get the other big piece in. The next morning it had burned down just enough to fill it again. I knew Ash burned hot, but got a much longer burn time than I expected. maybe I'll stockpile my Oak and switch to Ash while it's available. It doesn't seem to last long on the ground.
