Doing a little cleaning up at the wood processing area today. The dead Ash I did the other week made for a big mess. Jade a couple of loads to get rid of.
Silly question. We do have a small trail that we will be using once they take the trees down on the pipeline. It is up hill for short way. But it is pretty wet as there is springs in the area. Putting down the bark would actually prevent the 4 wheeler tires from spinning?
Yes. It will help. Probably quite a bit. I use the sheets of bark, both the silver maple and the ash bark that peels off of splits fur megamulch to keep piled wood off the ground and to keep weeds from growing in those areas. Sloughing the bark off dries the wood quicker, makes less ash in the stove, keeps the house cleaner, gets the wood on the bottom of the piles off the ground, and acts as mulch to keep weeds down. Oh yeah, it keys my processing areas cleaner because the mud stays away from my feet as in walking in bark as well.
I've found that it doesn't start to slough off until after it's been processed. I suppose if you left it in the round for 2 summers that it would all fall off by then, but I process it in 6-9 months at worst after cutting it.
I haven’t figured it out yet. I have some ash logs stacked under my Quonset hut that have been there for over a year and the bark is still tight. I also have some ash that’s been css for 4 years and the bark is tight to the split. But then I’ve dropped them in the woods and it falls off when it hits the ground.
All of the ash I'm processing is eab killed. So I'm positive that the eab larvae is loosening the bark. All of my eab killed ash , the bark is tight when I'm dropping the trees. I never really processed much ash before eab hit, but the few that I did trim or procure from scrounges, the bark stayed on, all the way to 2-3 years when it was burned.
Indeed it will help a lot. And soon it will turn into dirt and beg for more to be added but it works great.
