ASH

[mac]

Anyone ever use green ash to biuld a pole barn? Customer wants me to saw the lumber in return for a frontend loader for my 180 alis tractor.

[Grawulf]

Hey Mac! Welcome! Are you talking green ash or green white ash or green black ash or...........? :D If it's going to be structural, definitely nail it while it's green - it'll be a royal pain if it gets too dry. I sawed enough four quarter last year to do board and batten siding for a neighbors' 30 by 60 pole barn.
Absolutely  beautiful. Sounds like a good deal to me!    Devan

[mac]

Its white ash that he has. costumer has not cut it yet. I wanted to look at the loader first.

[fencerowphil (Phil L.)]

Ummm, umm, good,  ummmm, umm good.
Powder post bettles say...
Ummm, umm, good!

(Sing to the Cambell's soup song tune.) ;D

Powder post bettles love ash! :(

Phil L.

[mac]

Maybe  he will build his pole barn and the power post bettles will eat it up then I can saw him some more lumber.     smiley_devilish  maybe not!

[AtLast]

I used Ash in the same siding manner...plus built my sawmill shed AND outhouse outta Ash....Green ash....coated them all with linseed oil....headers and all....

[Tom]

The March 2004  "Wood" magazine has an article on Ash.   It says that the similarities in the grain of it and Red Oak make it a good and economical substitute for building furniture.  Most of these fellows don't talk about things like pole barns though. :D