Ash is a hardwood and is hard dense within 20 of 670 kg m 3 for fraxinus americana and higher at 710 kg m 3 for fraxinus excelsior tough and very strong but elastic extensively used for making bows tool handles baseball bats hurleys and other uses demanding high strength and resilience.
Is ash a hardwood tree.
Softwood comes from a conifer cone bearing or evergreen trees such as pine or spruce.
The texture and density of the wood a tree produces puts it in either the hardwood or softwood category.
Other soft hardwoods.
Green ash and black ash trees are preferentially attacked by the insects followed by white ash and blue ash.
Ash is a hardwood along with cherry oak walnut and maple.
If it s a softwood it came from a gymnosperm tree typically a conifer.
It dries fairly easily with minimal degrade and there is little movement in performance.
Most hardwood trees are deciduous trees which lose their leaves annually like elm or maple.