deezler
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First time I'm hearing someone who dislikes burning ash that much. If you think Ash leaves a lot of woodstove ashes behind, try some thick-barked walnut! Leaves a poofy mess behind (good BTUs int he meantime though, and one can always pull the bark off before burning).Ash is the only wood I know, that has so little moisture in it during the winter, that it could be burnt unseasoned. That could be handy if you ever ran low on wood in the late winter. Of course that don’t matter now around here because all of them are dead anyhow.
I always stayed several years ahead on my firewood supply, so I never took advantage of that, back when they were all healthy. Back then, ash made up less than 25 % of the wood we burnt. For the last 15 years (ever since the eab threat emerged) ash had made up more than 90% of what we have been burning.
That is the main reason that I am so sick of it right now. I’m sure that a day will come, after it’s long gone, when I will start missing it. It really does split easy, compared to most others. I probably wouldn’t even have a hydraulic splitter, if ash was all that I burned.
When we built our house in 2015, I didn't have any firewood ahead of time. So the easiest stuff to grab and chop up was the standing, or recently fallen ash. And it was indeed pretty easy to burn after just a month or two of seasoning after splitting... but I figure thats at least partly because it had been dead for 6-8 years and dried itself out already.
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