Clearing guys left a nice ash log about 24" and the boss said get it outta here. No problem!
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Ash score
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I got paid to cut it and used my company truck to haul it home. I call that a win-win 
Paulywalnut
Minister of Fire
I love ash also. I get all I can, and I'm fortunate to live in an area where it is plentiful. I have several that are standing dead/dying in my woods that need to come down this fall
for now they are all dying here which means it is really plentifull but wont last long. You have borers there yet?
no and it is not a disease it is a bug the emerald ash borer. It looks like the bark is flaking off and the tree is dead with in a year
I wouldn't say the bark is flaking off but something is killing them. Branches are dead and breaking off and I worry sometime I might have one hit me in the head while I'm mowing with my headphones in. I'll get a pic tomorrow of what I'm talking about
Roundgunner
Feeling the Heat
nwomatt
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I like to cut ash out of flooded beaver swamps in the winter. The longer it stands the drier it gets. Bark and limbs fall of in time while it stays standing. End result beautiful dry clean wood. Cut and burn. No dry time except for the bottom few blocks from each tree which wick up moisture. If its not a problem I'd let it stand until its ready to burn.
I knew this White Ash held up pretty good on the ground, but even I am surprised by some of the stuff I've come across this year; Branches that are in full contact with the ground, mushrooms growing out of the bark but the wood is still in good shape, not punked.
Ok so here's a pic of what I have on a lot of my dying ash trees. What is it?
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Just moss/fungus that grows on the side of a tree that doesn't get the sun to dry it off.
Its sad, as I look around my property I see a lot of ash getting brown, losing limbs, just dying off. I have a huge ash dying at the edge of the yard, it "Y's" about 4' from the ground and that thing has to be 4' across at that point, and maybe 60ish feet tall. That will be a LOT of BTU's but I hate to see it die off
Yea hi hate to see them go to they are a great tree pretty fast growing decent btus and makes good lumber to
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