Another one bites the dust!

Cut 'Em ALL Down----\

Let GOD sort it out!

Elm?

EAB hitting up there?

WiscWoody said:

It’s elm, and EAB isn’t present in the county yet. They say our extremely cold winters kill off the larvae but they also say that eventually they will adapt to the cold.

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We lost our elm years ago with Dutch elm disease. Don’t have a whole bunch around here.

DED has been around for decades. Around these parts it manafested itself on the early 80's and by 90 nearly every one was standing dead. Now you see a stray one now and then still fairly healthy but they are rare birds indeed. Hopefully they will make a comeback some day along with American Chestnut. Kevin

good looking stuff, no rot. Have fun splitting that, Elm is brutal as I'm sure you know

I occasionally will get a standing dead elm, usually pretty small. I have a couple larger ones that are doing ok. I wonder if it's DED or something else.

Thanks for the info. My standing dead elm does have the bark beetle marks, so probably DED too.

WiscWoody said:

Yep elm. There’s lots of dead standing elm up here for the taking lately. This is the 3rd one I’ve cut up in the last 3 months but the other 2 were smaller. I have one huge one to take down next.

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Yeah we had an elm disease that wiped out a lot of them. We are having trouble with beech blight on my property and taking out a lot of mature beech. If i can get to them before the blight they make good firewood. The blight rots them from the bottom up and taking down one that shows signs is super sketchy.

WiscWoody said:

BTW if you don’t know, the lyrics are from a Queen song, Another One Bites the Dust. It’s mostly a vocal piece with a heavy bass beat.

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I still have the 45, with the very strange "Don't Try Suicide" on the B-side. The things you ask for when you're 11 or 12....

Supposed to be cold tonight, and I think I'm finally into a small vein of elm from my "working" stack. We'll be throwing a few extra chunks on tonight.

any morels around all these dead elm trees?

lost in the woods said:

any morels around all these dead elm trees?

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We find the majority of them around ash trees here. I think that is the Morel Mushrooms that grow around the Ash trees. My buddy is a shroom hunter and sells them to local restaurants, he has made about $1000 off them as a hobby this past fall.

WiscWoody said:

We don’t have any beach trees up here but if you like to fish we have a lot of that here. I’m only 8 miles from the Chippewa Flowage where a few record Muskies have been caught through the years. It’s a 30,000 acre lake. You see lots of corporate boats here like Rapala’s. There many other lakes around too.

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Love to fish but mostly fish for walleye. I fish Lake Ontario, it's tough to do on the larger lakes. We used to have the NWT come through once a year but now the area I fish caters to the BASS masters.

lost in the woods said:

any morels around all these dead elm trees?

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We're a little too far east I think save fro there may be some in the Catoctins on the west side of Frederick County here. In MD they are relegated mostly to Allegany and Garrett Co's with the elevation there. Kevin