And you can cut ash today and burn it tonight, it doesn't need drying time.
Ruth



At 2:31 PM -0400 8/7/03, Bruce Marcham wrote:
It has spiral grain which means it splits real hard.  I don't recall if the
grain spirals in opposite directions or just to varying degrees as you go
into the log but it just doesn't want to split.  My grandfather's wood lot
had a lot of dead elm and the only thing I could do with it was split off
the outside of the logs (tangentially rather than radially).

Ash splits real nice.
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