If that were anywhere near me, I would run myself ragged getting that all c/s/s! And then sit in a lawn chair with a few and watch it dry! Keep at it cus_deluxe! With easy access like that I would seriously entertain selling some if its worth it in your area.
No, it's if. I treat my trees in the yard, but there's tons of them in city/ town that are wild-ish trees with no treatment. There's been studies showing the demise of EAB due to its inability to cope with the cold winters we've had until this past year, and there's also ash trees building immunity or a resistance to the beetle. All is not lost, but I'll still treat my ash trees in the yard with the Bayer treatment.
Beech burns really well with a lot of different woods. Beech and elm, beech and sugar maple, beech and hickory, all great combos. I have yet to try oak and beech, but I'm sure it's a great combo too.
Envy guage is over the top man. If you and I both worked there, my gooseneck would follow me to work EVERY day !! You rock sir.
That's amazing. you just never see that around me.. if my area all tree guys bring logs home and stack them most have processing area and any hardwood sells for 225 cord and up .... Good for you cus_deluxe
Nice to know there is a treatment. EAB hasn't infected the trees around here as yet. I know they are being monitored for infestations. Hate to see them go the way the elms did. My property has many Hemlocks on it. There is a worm making its way here that is said to destroy Hemlock. My place will look barren when that happens.
Bayer doesn't work for free, and it's not owned by the government. It works, I know that from studies. For a big tree, it uses about half of a $20 bottle.
According to Firewood BTU & Drying Chart | Firewood Hoarders Club White ash @ 21.6 Mbtu vs Beech @ 22.7 Mbtu That is per cord. I was a bit taken back by the 1/3 less btu so had to look it up. But I do agree beech is a bit better than ash. However, ash is a lot easier to split and does not go bad as quickly as beech. Also, with the glut of it now, it is good to burn ash. Then in Western MI, the beech is all going bad too so which is better once it starts going bad? For sure one usually gets more ants in beech than ash. It is rare to get them in ash but not unheard of.
That's an outlier of a BTU chart. I throw the high and low outliers out, as that is the scientific method. Typical btu charts have beech at 26-27 mbtu's a cord. Most charts have ash at 20 mbtu's a cord. Some say green ash is a tad better than white ash, but it's pretty much imperceptible. I treat beech as a close second to shagbark hickory as all around best firewood. The beech I have splits easier than the ash I've split. It cracks open like red oak on the splitter, but ash is usually a little straighter than beech, in that the splits twist a little. There's a very slight spiral on the beech I have. As far as drying time, it's a wash between ash and beech from what I see. I might give the edge to beech for quicker drying. JM2ยข
^^^ 100% agree with Horkn -My experience is that beech burns substantially hotter than ash-pound for pound, day to day ash is my go to because of the lesser heat, but that's just my climate. That being said, I've had beech I could split with a hatchet, ash as hard as Chinese arithmetic, it varies like everything else from tree to tree-2 dandy woods to have in your arsenal for sure. Being good stewards and taking advantage of DS that nature provides is foremost of concern to me.
Yep, most of it will be processed into firewood or sold as pallet material by the tree service that did the work, though its open to firewood for the employees here, several of which burn wood which is nice.
