Not the way I want to add to my stacks

[fireview2788]

I've got an ash tree that has succumbed to the EAB and it sits right between my house and my neighbors so I had to have a pro take it down. Of course the deal gets better the more they cut so today they added three other trees plus some thinning for a total of $1,300. They are taking the limbs and cutting the wood to 16" lengths so I don't have to do that.

I hate to see any tree come down but all of them are infected. It's an expensive way to add to my stacks but I have to keep telling myself I'm paying the expertise and not the wood.



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[Soundchasm]

I got into burning because I couldn't see the sense in having to pay tree guys to haul away wood. The toll from the EAB is enormous. The only redeeming bit of taking them down is that you'll know exactly how old the wood is.

 

[Knots]

Gifts from Asia. Maine is trying to stop everything at the border but it's only a matter of time.

 

[fireview2788]

All but one of them is down. I did ask what they did with the wood that people didn't want and he said they take it to the dump. I told him that if he was in the area and some, especially oak, that they could bring it to me. We'll see if it pans out. I still don't like seeing trees come down.


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