Have you guys ever used Ash stakes/lathe?
My stake supplier claims they are the best and he is replacing all of his line of pine stakes with them. They are virtually the same price. We are going to give them a try but just wondering if yall have any experience with them.
No but it seems like they would be higher though.
Although, when I had the timber cut on the farm, they wanted all of those kinds of trees as pine wasn't a hot topic at that time. Ash, Sweetgum, Hackberry (sugar berry) and any oak was bringing a premium. Maybe the swamp loggers have inundated the market with these trees and can't do anything with them.
Years ago there was a broom factory near. When they went out of business the company I was with bought sealed and painted ash broomsticks by the pickup loads.
They were the most durable lath I've every used. Great tensile strength.
Your supplier is just trying to sell as much ash as he can before the emerald ash borer beats him to it. 😉
Rich
There's something I didn't know. Cool link. Bad bug.
Our guy gave us some, we had been getting oak. They aren't as good as oak, but a lot better than pine.
Take an ax to your hammer handle and drive into the ground as a test. Most wood tool handles are made of ash.
jud
Former President Calvin Coolidge was known as silent Cal for his use of the fewest possible words. He was in front of a crowd with another man who presented him with a hand tool and went to great lengths describing the handle as hickory, how fine and tough it was, etc. etc. If I remember correctly he was making a complimentary comparision to Calvin's fine character.
The President took the tool in his hands, looked it over and said one word, "ash".
How to catch an elephant
Dig a giant hole..............fill it with Ash.
Place a circle of peas around the hole.
when the elephant comes to take a pea, kick him in the ash hole.
Good ash is hard to find...
I found a whole bin of 1" x 1" ash at a lumber yard, originally cut to be turned into molding material. They never had or took the time to create the molding so I made an offer for the whole bin. It was mine and they even let me use their truck to haul it home. I think it took like 10 hours to cut it all into 4' lengths. The pile lasted for more than 10 years! As it turned out, that was the most durable wood I ever put in the ground. It was nothing to find them still standing after 5+ years, some longer. Yes, ash is durable. White ash, I'm talking about.
They Make Most Baseball Bats From Ash
They also make some maple and hickory bats.
They don't make any pine bats, whatsoever.
Paul in PA
They Make Most Baseball Bats From Ash
with all the pine tar that I have seen on some bats and helmets, they use a lot of point.
😉
There was a retired guy here a few years back who got the end waste from a casket builder co. He made survey stakes from the remnants.
It was a lot of nice hardwoods. Black walnut, mahogany etc.
They were very nice looking stakes. I would occasionally cull some particularly nice ones for home projects.
I did hear about the Ash blight in the past year.
Most of the ash for bats is from Pennsylvania.
