Wood storage question

[Terry, NJ]

If your'e dealing with Ash, which I strongly advise you to do. Although I have no idea what the availability of Ash is on the west coast. It is the prefered wood of car builders going back to to the earliest mod. T s, up to the most modern of the small builders, Morgan, of the UK.
Why is that? You ask. Well, Ash doesnt' swell with moisture. It's fairly light next to it's closest competitor, Oak. It breaks fairly sharp. in an accident, Oak will splinter into a lot of tiny little spears to impale you. Henry used mainly Ash and AFAIK the wood was never much of a problem. Get your Ash now before the Chinese donated, Emerald Ash Borer eats them all up. Ash trees are going the way of the American Chestnut!
Terry

[BRENT in 10-uh-C]

Originally Posted by Terry, NJ

If your'e dealing with Ash, which I strongly advise you to do. Although I have no idea what the availability of Ash is on the west coast. It is the prefered wood of car builders going back to to the earliest mod. T s, up to the most modern of the small builders, Morgan, of the UK.
Why is that? You ask. Well, Ash doesnt' swell with moisture. It's fairly light next to it's closest competitor, Oak. It breaks fairly sharp. in an accident, Oak will splinter into a lot of tiny little spears to impale you. Henry used mainly Ash and AFAIK the wood was never much of a problem. Get your Ash now before the Chinese donated, Emerald Ash Borer eats them all up. Ash trees are going the way of the American Chestnut!
Terry

Actually, I think that has been an ongoing myth. I own many Ford Engineering prints of wood pieces for Model-As, and I do not recall ever seeing Ash mentioned. Maybe it was used without the engineering department's approval, but they always specified other species of wood.

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[springerpete]

Agree that Ash is good stuff to use. But lets remember that Henry tended to use what was available from his Michigan U P property. I store my oak, ash, pine and southern hard pine in my unheated garage loft on stickers, straight and covered and I check it often. Guy down the street who makes mega,mega buck spiral stairs stores his very fancy lumber in his cool shop against the north wall uncovered. A Ford is very nice but it is not a Bosendorfer piano. (sic)