Is Ash a soft or a hardwood???

Answer 1

Hard!

A little rhyme I learnt at age 10 in the Cubs!!

These hard woods burn well and slowly, Ash beech hawthorn oak and holly.

Soft woods flare up quick and fine , Birch fir hazel larch and pine!!

Answer 2

Ash is definately a hardwood, pale in colour, very strong, perfect for burning on a log fire, burns slow but hot.

If the Ash comes before the Oak you're in for a soak,
but if the Oak comes before the Ash you're in for a splash.

Sorry about that just tells you that the Ash is deciduous, which makes this a hardwood.

Answer 3

Cone bearing trees are classed as softwood, others are hardwood, the name has nothing to do with the hardness of the wood.
Get a good straight length of ash and shove it into a large pile of horse shite until only the tip protrudes, leave it there all summer and when you eventually pull it out and give it a clean you will have the best walking stick known to man. try it on a shorter and thicker piece and you will end up with a cudgel strong enough to crack any head you strike with it........

Answer 4

Hardwood.

Answer 5

I've always thought it was a hardwood. It is in the Olive tree family and comes from the evergreen family which has led me to believe it is hardwood. ??

Answer 6

Hardwood. Great for baseball bats, but its also as good for use as a guitar body in place of a more expensive Maple.

Answer 7

hardwood. Baseball bats are made from ash.

Answer 8

The wood of the Ash is a grayish-white throughout, the sap-wood being used along with the more central portions, an advantage peculiar to but few species. It is more flexible than that of any other European tree, and its value is increased by rapid growth.

Its tough saplings were naturally chosen by both Greeks and Romans for their spears and it has been extensively used for making bows, tool handles, quality wooden baseball bats, hurley sticks and other uses demanding high strength and resilience.

It is also used as material for the bodies of guitars, known for its bright, cutting tone and sustaining quality. It also makes excellent firewood.

The two most economically important species for wood production are White Ash in eastern North America, and European Ash in Europe.

Few trees become useful so soon, it being fit for walking-sticks at four years' growth, for spade-handles at nine, and when three inches in diameter as valuable as the timber of the largest tree.

In the Potteries it is largely used for crate-making, and in Kent for hop-poles. Both the spokes and the felloes of wheels are made from it, and from its flexibility it is in fact "the husbandman's tree" for every kind of agricultural implement.

The tree lives to an age of several centuries, but can be most profitably felled at from eighty to a hundred years old. For smaller wood it is, of course, largely treated as coppice. The roots and knotty parts of the stem are valued by cabinet-makers, and were, according to Evelyn, known as "green ebony."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_tree

http://www.2020site.org/trees/ash.html

Answer 9

Hardwood, one of the best.

Answer 10

Ash is a "very" hardwood. They use it to make baseball bats!!!!!