Rent a truck and hide it from view. Most of our problem is the dang imports from overseas. The dang Japanese stilt grass is horrible here. I am going to need to spray it for the next eight years as that is how long the seeds can stay viable in the ground.
That makes it ok? Since its discovery, EAB has: Killed hundreds of millions of ash trees in North America. Caused regulatory agencies and the USDA to enforce quarantines and fines to prevent potentially infested ash trees, logs or hardwood firewood from moving out of areas where EAB occurs. Cost municipalities, property owners, nursery operators and forest products industries hundreds of millions of dollars.
I think we need to put bans on crap coming into the country some 30 years back. Corporations want to make their crap in countries with slave labour and now we are paying the price. Seems according to the map that is it too little too late.
Every year I watch the locust turn brown. I often wonder what the problem was so investigated one year. Some bug sucking the life out of the leaves. Trees needs leaves to live so it has to weaken the tree year after year. Doesn't seem to be any effort to address the problem.
Yes. Same here every year. But the trees recover. Sometimes even regrow their leaves after the defoliation if it happens early enough.
I like the initial smell...very vinegary here. After a few days though...it very closely resembles vomit. lol Leaves the mess in the woods. Sometimes, it's a lot more work to skid all the way to my processing area due to having to repair drainage afterwards. The buggy with a hydraulic dump bed is nice for in the woods processing.
I was C/S some 2 year old dead fall red oak this weekend. Little to no bark, even getting punky outside. Still very wet and heavy despite being broke off the stump and off the ground. ...and still smelled...like vomit...
I have a couple of red oak snags that I have purposely left standing for about 3 years hoping they'll dry out a bit. RO is awesome if you can find a piece that the sap wood has rotted off of completely. Leaves a dry and hard wood behind. Only found a couple of those ever, but it does happen. Stove ready right out of the woods.
I hate to say it, but you might consider cutting and chopping that oak. Left standing is to leave it to rot. Just the behavior of oak.
Well, I have looked at a couple of the snags a few times, but always seem to have other wood on the ground or other chores to do. I am actually an advocate for snags to be left standing for wildlife purposes. Food and nesting for birds. So it's no big deal if it rots. The last RO I cut down was pretty dry except for the butt and the first 6-7 feet.
If the wood has been C/S/S for 24 months, it won't have EAB in it. No way for the enforcement agencies to know that, tho. It might have other bugs. The spotted lantern fly lays egg masses everywhere, but I don't know how that's not gonna jump everywhere in a matter of a few years. RV's are gonna carry them.
If you heat it up, to like 150-200 degrees for an hour, any bug we'll be toast. So how to do that? You could use a propane heater in a confined space like a shed, trailer, etc. Then it would be safe.
That's why I'm glad I've got a lot of beech, it lasts overnight too and it's even better than oak btu wise. Beech smells like Carmel corn once lit. I'll probably be getting some 3 year seasoned red oak this winter in exchange for fresh but dead standing EAB ash at my wood lot. I helped split that oak a while back w at my buddy's dad's place, so it's probably going to come back around as btu's in my stove. There's at least 3 nice sized ash trees at his dad's place that are dead standers too. So he'll be swimming in ash and I'll help him CSS it. .
I've never heard that statistic, so I can't speak to its validity. My point was , it's not ok to "hide" a pick-up load of wood and travel 500 miles through three states.
