Hauling Ash

[Simonkenton]

The emerald ash borers killed this 95 foot tree. It was leaning towards my brother's house, so last summer I cut it down. Yesterday we cut it up and hauled it up the hill with the WD tractor.

 

[Simonkenton]

24 inch at the base. Zero rot. I sawed it up and brother split it. I got a good truckload, got to go back today and get another truck load.

 

[woodey]

Nice haul!!

 

[Gearhead660]

Most of the dead ash trees around here are gone. Not many dead standing left. Some good firewood...

 

[Simonkenton]

Got another truck load today. My brother and I have cut up 8 ash trees, 2 of them were bigger than this one. They were easy to split. This tree was very difficult to split.

 

[Woody Stover]

Most of the dead ash trees around here are gone. Not many dead standing left. Some good firewood...

My brother just got one that was still decent, from a neighbor. He's close to Holy Hill.
Borer didn't get here until recently so we still have good ones to get. Stoves will be on an Ash-heavy diet for a while.
Sad to lose the Ash..just a great all-around firewood. 😔

 

[Simonkenton]

Yes this about wraps it up for ash, for us. It is great firewood. I also like the funky smell of ash.

 

[Kevin Weis]

90%+ of all the Ash around here have succumbed or actively under attack by the borer. Ash dropping everywhere anytime we get a wind above 30 mph. The wood burns good but Ash leaves a lot of, well, ash.

 

[Doublebogey]

Is that a 346xp in that truck?
🤭

 

[Simonkenton]

I had to take it in to the shop yesterday for a new chain. The guys at the shop were admiring my saw.

 

[gzecc]

24 inch at the base. Zero rot. I sawed it up and brother split it. I got a good truckload, got to go back today and get another truck load.

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Hate to be big brother, but put safety glasses on. Mauls, axes etc shoot little shrapnel occasionally. A couple of hundred $ of firewood isn't worth an eye injury. Amazing how many people don't use glasses with chainsaws. I didn't use glasses for a decade in my younger years.

 

[Wood1Dennis]

Most of the dead ash trees around here are gone. Not many dead standing left. Some good firewood...

I've been watching the ash die off heading north up the I-43 corridor for a few years now. Unfortunately it is up here in Manitowoc county now and the ash in my woods is infected. That is too bad, I hate to see it, but I will have a lot of ash firewood for the next few years.

 

[sneefy]

Amazing how many people don't use glasses with chainsaws.

Or ear protection.

 

[Woody Stover]

The guys at the shop were admiring my saw.

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Not quite the right color of orange, but I'd take it in a heartbeat. 😏

 

[Doublebogey]

I had to take it in to the shop yesterday for a new chain. The guys at the shop were admiring my saw.

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I'll bet. One of the best 50cc's of all time. I have been keeping my eye out for one so that I can leave my 450 at my buddies farm.

I'll muffler mod it and delete the base gasket and run it forever.

 

[Garbanzo62]

yeah the Oregon Forestry helmet was on my Xmas list. has the eye-shield and ear protection. Recommend that for anyone cutting down dead standing as you never know when a limb will break off a piece