TurboDiesel -just cut from the stump a month ago---seen no EAB infestion here yet...just working the 3 yr plan and this will be late winter wood, if necessary-I'm good for '15-'16, so hopefully this is '17 wood...I dropped a bunch of trees in early June-I still have locust, ash, elm and cherry down but this is my last cutting til fall-just couldnt resist temps in the 60's for a change-its been real hot here with much more to come---I was home by 11 am, mowing 3 acres just before another torrential downfall...
Pretty easy to pick out an ash here. The bark is either turning tan or is standing dead with no bark They will still have leaves at this point, but not many
Not mine, but that's an all to familiar site here. I see them every where I go. I have one in the front yard. I'll get a couple pics and put up after the rain stops.
Emerald Ash Borer Reaches West Virginia - Agriculture Commissioner Confirms The emerald ash borer, an Asian-born pest that has killed an estimated 25 million ash trees since it arrived in Michigan five years ago, has been found in Fayette County, state Agriculture Commissioner Gus R. Douglass announced on Friday. An emerald ash borer larva was discovered in a “trap tree” that had been prepared by the state Department of Agriculture’s Plant Industries Division to survey for the beetle, which has been found in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Indiana, Virginia and Michigan. State Forester Randy Dye has described the pest as perhaps “the biggest threat facing West Virginia’s forests today,” due to its lethal effect on healthy as well as distressed ash trees and the lack of a viable method to combat the pest. While ash accounts for only 2 percent to 4 percent of the tree mix in West Virginia’s forests, it is a valuable wood product used in flooring, paneling and cabinets, according to Assistant State Forester Dan Kincaid. The ash borer’s arrival in West Virginia was expected to occur sometime soon, since the pest has been found within 30 miles of the state’s Northern Panhandle counties as well as in Ohio and Pennsylvania, Kincaid said. The pest naturally moves through the woodlands at a rate of only about a half-mile each year, but the borers have sped their infestation by hitching rides aboard log trucks and on firewood brought to campsites in non-infested areas. Federal officials have established a quarantine that bans the spread of ash nursery stock, logs, green lumber and wood chips from Michigan, Ohio and other infested states.
cnice_37 What is it you'd like to know? With my Polar attached, I cant close the ramp on the '12 trailer so I either just put the Foreman in 4wd and drive up onto the front rail then cinch it down. My alternative is to unhook the trailer and slide the tongue up under the atv to get the ramp to close. Is that what you meant?
Yep - just caught my eye as an interesting technique. Can you put the dump trailer in the dump position and get everyone to fit?
Here in Illinois, ash has been identified in several counties and may not be transported out of those counties for any reason. This is a state restriction over and above the interstate restriction. They went further too. If I sell bundles of wood for campers in a location where the EAB has been identified I cannot sell any ash in a bundle even for immediate consumption. I am still allowed to burn my own ash but could not even sell or give it as firewood to my next door neighbor.
Yup. That is pretty typical when the borer gets to eating. But fear not, most of them will stay standing for many years.
Yes sir, it will fit like that as well-thats how I store it in garage as the tongue pivots 90 degrees, takes up way less room
