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Post by bgoathill on Mar 2, 2024 20:13:11 GMT -6
...after the borer gets into them? Wife is grumping all I ever do is cut wood anymore. I tell her we've got about two years before all those trees will turn punky and be junk. And will they last a little longer if they are down and the logs are piled up or do I need to get it processed into firewood right away?
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Post by diydave on Mar 2, 2024 21:01:09 GMT -6
Answer is, it rots fast!  |
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Post by 504 on Mar 2, 2024 21:40:20 GMT -6
I took a ride around the fields yesterday,I have some big trees down, and the woods are not safe to walk in for the dead 8 incher ones.
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Post by billinohio on Mar 2, 2024 22:39:37 GMT -6
Ash trees are usually very fast to turn to mush when they die, but, every once in a while you might find a standing dead one that is dry and makes good firewood. I have no idea why
Ash trees seemed to always have something trying to kill them. There was “ash yellows” , you could tell it was dieing when the leaves were in clusters, kinda like Pom poms. Next would be water sprouts all the way up the trunk. Government officials had no idea what caused it.
I used to try to take inventory and take out trees that showed illness, but, they die fast, a tree that didn’t look bad might be absolutely worthless a year later, and dangerous to cut. I got to pushing on them with a big loader bucket and sawing underneath it, in case a limb comes at you.
I have a lot Old ash snags that I just stay as far away from as I can.
If I was smart, I woulda been cutting and stacking.
It wouldn’t have made lumber, though. 50 years ago, my dad sold ash logs to True Temper to make tool handles. They wanted fresh cut logs, 2 weeks was their limit, and they could tell by looking. When the tree is cut, it has a little dark heartwood, but that stain grows after the tree is cut because of an enzyme the tree releases that basically starts eating it up.
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Post by kevinj54 on Mar 3, 2024 7:21:01 GMT -6
...after the borer gets into them? Wife is grumping all I ever do is cut wood anymore. I tell her we've got about two years before all those trees will turn punky and be junk. And will they last a little longer if they are down and the logs are piled up or do I need to get it processed into firewood right away? I am near the last of them at about 10 years.
I find that if cut down & cut to pulp length & piled they stay a long time. They go faster standing or laying on the ground.
I cut some last fall that were piled about 5 years.
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Post by Butcher on Mar 3, 2024 8:07:34 GMT -6
I,ve been cutting standing dead ash that died 3 years ago. Not finding any rot at all. most of them are about 12 to 20 inch diameter at breast hieght.
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Post by kevinj54 on Mar 3, 2024 8:20:05 GMT -6
I took a ride around the fields yesterday,I have some big trees down, and the woods are not safe to walk in for the dead 8 incher ones. Ya they get unsafe, I got most of mine tipped over a few years back & just let them lay on each other to keep off the ground.
I only have a few standing & they had some leaves last year so they will come down this year.
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Post by kevinj54 on Mar 3, 2024 8:21:20 GMT -6
I,ve been cutting standing dead ash that died 3 years ago. Not finding any rot at all. most of them are about 12 to 20 inch diameter at breast hieght. You have some nice ones, we had on at 40" and a couple 20" but most were 3" to maybe 12". |
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Post by bgoathill on Mar 3, 2024 9:29:52 GMT -6
Okay, thanks, that's what I needed to know. The great big old ones never were hardly worth cutting, the young 12-18 inchers are the primo ones. I've got at least 10 to 15 years supply on my own property right now, and a pretty much endless supply from work if I want them. I've breathed a lot of smoke this winter. www.instagram.com/reel/C3tRs2tCmv9/ |
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