Borer “trap tree”
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SeanKroll
Treehouser
I've seen green log traps for Ips beetles in pines. They solar cook the logs after the beetles burrow into the log by covering with clear or black plastic.
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TreeHouser
EAB came hard and fast here in my area. I not so so sure trap trees would have worked. It was like the entire county blew up at once, dead ash everywhere. Very few left.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
EAB trees are a large percentage of the treework around here. It's not if, it's when they get it.
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- #5
yeah, from what I’d read, I don’t think EAB was stoppable. But maybe the gold spotted oak borers out here.
The green log thing is a good idea.
I’ve cut down healthy eucs, stored the logs in my yard, and found the cambium eaten out later when I went to make firewood. I guess I need to cover everything, bleh.
The green log thing is a good idea.
I’ve cut down healthy eucs, stored the logs in my yard, and found the cambium eaten out later when I went to make firewood. I guess I need to cover everything, bleh.
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TreeHouser
Year 4 of the EAB invasion was slowed by a polar vortex. -40° really put the hurt on that little bug and good for it, but damn was it cold.
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TreeHouser
After a while you will hate cutting ash, dry, dusty, brittle wood that shatters like glass, jamming up the chipper at every feed cycle. I can still smell the dust.
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- #8
Sounds normal 😆
I have a bunch of smallish dry stuff to cut up, I’m going to try my new $80 Chinese 36” light weight bar on my 461 with some Oregon multicut. Just so I can cut over there while I’m over here 😆
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- #9
Always wanted to give these sketchy chair prone ashes a whirl just to see. The two or three Arizona ashes I have cut were healthy, pretty hard/tough/strong.
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TreeHouser
I wouldn’t say barber chair prone so much as never turn your back to one. More like a shady Chihuahua with a shive in a prison exercise yard, give them respect and you’ll be fine, disrespect them and it’s sticky sticky. I’ve only had one barber chair on me, a few straight up pull over out of the ground during a test pull, a couple snap off at ground level, but most were solid.
Burnham
Woods walker
Lovely trees to deal with, then. Never a dull moment.
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TreeHouser
They’re a peach of a tree.
