I was picking up some wood this evening, walked past my small pile of spruce firewood, and saw an EAB nosing around the pile. I went in for the kill, almost stuck a branch in my eye, and lost track of it. My spruce was full of bugs when I took it down, and there's lots of exit holes that have appeared as it sat. I doubt it's EAB, but why was the bug poking around dried out spruce? Just there? Per the title, any reports of EAB getting into other US natives, particularly in the mid Atlantic?
Emerald Ash Borer - Do They Like Other Trees Aside From Ash?
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Jonny
Treehouser
I’ve read of it attacking another kind but I don’t remember what it was, some species I hadn’t heard of before.
Kinda beautiful looking bug, huh? Destructive little assholes, but quite pretty.
Kinda beautiful looking bug, huh? Destructive little assholes, but quite pretty.
pantheraba
More biners!!!
Sounds like some foxy girls I've dated.
Raj
TreeHouser
We need pics!!!!!!
flushcut
TreeHouser
They are indeed a cool looking bug, stunning in color. I have heard of two other species that they go after but not native to WI so I didn't commit them to memory.
Ed L
Treehouser
Ime, they go after nothing in my area other than Ash.
The bug is gone here, ate itself out of a home and the Ash are coming back.
Mother nature is not defeated easily.
Ed
The bug is gone here, ate itself out of a home and the Ash are coming back.
Mother nature is not defeated easily.
Ed
Altissimus
TreeHouser
Only like killing Ash here , seems a specialist
Al Smith
Mac Daddy
I've got some that are around 12 feet high and a zillion about 18" high .I did have some 100 footers that are either saw logs or firewood now .The good thing about ash is it can lay on the ground for a long time before it rots away
flushcut
TreeHouser
Their root systems go to hell quick tho. I've seen many that are about three-four years dead blow over with little to no root mass left.
Ed L
Treehouser
yes, roots go to shit and so does the bottom 3' of tree...right where your notch goes.
Ed
Ed
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Springboards? Being 3'+ taller helps in some situations.
Could be as simple as a 2x8 going into a tight slot, cut slightly up from horizontal.
Root-rotted firs are pretty cooperative with face cuts at 5-6' up. I usually just cut those from the ground, starter- cover downward.
Could be as simple as a 2x8 going into a tight slot, cut slightly up from horizontal.
Root-rotted firs are pretty cooperative with face cuts at 5-6' up. I usually just cut those from the ground, starter- cover downward.
flushcut
TreeHouser
Springboards will work if the tree is big enough to hold a SB.
Ed L
Treehouser
Never seen or heard of anyone using one here....
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Loggers make springboards out of little trees, sometimes, I hear.
I don't personally know anyone else who has one, currently in use. Jed had one at the training he went to.
Jerry... Wouldn't be surprised if he had one, or Burnham.
A 2x8 jammed in a cutout would do about the same, I think, without the ability to swivel it.
Like the GRCS, it can stay in the truck until useful. When you need it, it's great.
Cutting a bad co-dominant above the fork, each with a definitive lean, May be easier than trying to cut below the seperation. That's when I've used it most.
I don't personally know anyone else who has one, currently in use. Jed had one at the training he went to.
Jerry... Wouldn't be surprised if he had one, or Burnham.
A 2x8 jammed in a cutout would do about the same, I think, without the ability to swivel it.
Like the GRCS, it can stay in the truck until useful. When you need it, it's great.
Cutting a bad co-dominant above the fork, each with a definitive lean, May be easier than trying to cut below the seperation. That's when I've used it most.
Nutball
TreeHouser
Around these parts we use a climbing tree stand while a friend holds one's beer.
