Made a little progress today

Adirondack case guy · Sep 3, 2019

Last week I dropped a real big dead ash tree. When it landed the top exploded into small pieces too small to skid to a landing. I hauled out the logs and three big limbs that were still in tact. I decided to block the small round limbs where they layed. I have a smaller trailer that I haven't used for a while, and decided that I could load all the small rounds into it to use for firewood in out fireplace before I have to light the boiler for the main heating season. The trailer is small enough that I can back it into my cellar, and I can just load the wood onto my dumb waiter to raise it to the main floor where the fireplace is. The wood from the Ash top didn't fill the trailer, but there were plenty of other windfall tops and small dead trees along the woods roads to finish off the load. The fireplace should keep us comfortable into November with the wood in this load. -----Loren

Pictures of the tree down.

Sat our son and DIL came up and we dropped and split another dead Ash so they would have some wood when they go camping.-------Loren

roaddevil49 · Sep 3, 2019

I see a pick up truck that wasn't there on my last vist, your's or son's? Or was it? With all the excitement fire fighting, I've forgotten. I still need you red neck engineering thoughts on my clutch brake ideas,if you received my email reply.Don't know when I'll be in you area, have had some routing changes at work. Dane.

Charlie M · Sep 3, 2019

We dropped one that was 22 inches wide a couple of weeks ago. Just finished cutting and splitting it yesterday. Had a section toward the top with a lot of ants but rest of tree was good. There is a lot of dead ash on my place and I'm never going to get to all them before they rot.

ditchwitch · Sep 3, 2019

I believe you could have got a few more pieces on that dump trailer. LOL. All of our Ash trees are dying off down here in North Carolina. I had 7 12 inch ones beside one of my gardens and within 3 years they are deader than a door nail . I mean to the point the limbs fell out and 3 of them the whole tree is on the ground. I heard there was some kind of ash bore bug that is killing them but i dont really know.

jeffcat · Sep 3, 2019

I hope you didn't chop up the big logs. I keep hearing ash is getting petty pricey and is used in a lot of baseball bats boat oras etc. Please do some asking around first.

Bob · Sep 3, 2019

It is always fascinating to read of the adventures you and Geo from Indiana have with trees and brush.

Locally, I have a good pal from church (also named Bob, by some strange coincidence), and he's just like you, always salvaging some firewood, 'cept he's a bit more inept and wrecks lots of stuff along the way!

Pretty sure if we "ran the numbers" with propane as cheap as it is he'd come out ahead and have less chance of hurting himself if just burned propane!

r.w.b. · Sep 4, 2019

He says never mind the ox,load the cart

Bret4207 · Sep 4, 2019

Sad to see our beautiful and useful Ash trees dying out.

SARG · Sep 4, 2019

Took down a very large Green Ash with bores last week. Pictured is the end result.

Mike M · Sep 4, 2019

Was anyone else expecting to see it perfectly stacked for transport too ? lol.

Adirondack case guy · Sep 4, 2019

Adirondack Bat here in Dolgsville, NY only wants live ash logs. Logs from standing dead are only wanted by the Amish mills if they are not punky in the center. Pretty much all goes for firewood.----Loren

Adirondack case guy · Sep 4, 2019

Dane, I saw your e-mail and I am scratching my head a bit. My SC foot clutch tractor has a arm on the clutch release shaft with a pad that contacts the pulley hub on the RH side of tractor when pedal is pushed. Do you have a shaft protruding out under pulley hub where an arm can attach??? Perhaps your clutch brake arm is missing.----Loren

Adirondack case guy · Sep 4, 2019

I like your mushroom. Looks like a good way to utilize one of those old TV dishes----
Loren

Dave H (MI) · Sep 4, 2019

The ash borer epidemic started here. I am on my second generation of ash trees since the big ones all died. Current trees that suckered off the roots are 15-20' tall. The borers have returned and these trees are now dying off also. Eventually, I suspect, something is going to evolve to eating ash borers and their grubs. When that day comes a few trees will survive maybe, or they will wipe out their food source and be gone. Hope so.

jeffcat · Sep 4, 2019

Oh how sad. I lost a couple of those trees the past four or five years. It just stinks.

Billy NY · Sep 4, 2019

Good way to make used of the tops, no splitting needed. I make use of the tops leaving just the brush behind. I think this darned ash borer made it over this way, was in the woodlot where there is a bunch of mountain ash, and I have seen a few others not looking so well. No road in there, but I punched a hole through, time to get in there. I wonder how long you have just for firewood before it's punked out. No real saw log looking ones like yours in the photo, but the power company dropped a nice size one over and across the property line, enough for me to find a way to get it if the neighbor don't want it. I can't get back out to the woods until I get this years logs cut and split anyways, at least I got that far, hopefully by the end of the month.

Mark in Upstate · Sep 6, 2019

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