Green Ash Slabs

Milled a large Green Ash, Fraxinus pennsylvanica, log last week, which was recovered near Fall River, Kansas a little over a year ago.

Five 2.5″ slabs and two 1.25″.

Me holding one of the boards.   The grain, although hard to see in the pictures is very nice.

Three-legged Ash Stools and Bowls

Here are two different 3-legged stools, in Green Ash.

This one has a handle, like  a milking stool.

An Ash plate, bowl, walnut bowl, and a small persimmon dish.

Milling Ash With a New Set-up

A carpenter ant infested green ash crotch being milled using a piece of heavy aluminum C-channel on sawhorses as a guide for the first cut.  Also the standard 20 inch bar on the Stihl 039 has been replaced with a 24 inch bar and a rip-cut milled chain.  The extra four inches and a new bar make a big difference in getting good true and flat cuts.

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It would have been better had it not been filled with a colony of carpenter ants, but still nice wood.

Ash crotch 1

A little better towards the edge, just not as interesting.

Ash crotch 2

Two More Bowls In Ash

Two new bowls in green ash.  The one on the left was turned by my wife.

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Milled Ash

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A section of one of the many Ash logs in my yard waiting to be milled.

Ash Logs

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A trailer load of Green Ash logs to be milled.  We had to split the big one to get it loaded, but it will be quarter sawn, anyway.

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Unloading with the hook and the WD.

Green Ash Chair Rungs

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