Spent most of my sunday with an older guy i work with, cutting firewood for an even older friend of his. This is the scene at the dump where i work. Discuss.
There is an incredible amount of white ash in thar. Way gooder stuff! That looks like a scene taken straight from Somerset county pa. Sure is a shame that in 5 years that scene won't be so bountiful with ash.
yep, 95% Beech and Ash, scattered maple and red oak. a tree service is doing work for an old church camp not far from the golf course where i work and have a deal to burn our brush pile, which gets quite large as we do a fair bit of tree work, and debris from property of most of the members end up there as well.
yeah its gonna be pretty easy for another couple years with all the beech trees dying, but plenty of areas up here are noticeably thinner these days.
and there are some BIG logs in these piles. lots of smaller easy to handle stuff, though i may bring the 288 out there and cut some cookies
Ash, smash.... Looks like a lot of beech in there. Beech is a lot better than ash. Granted, that looks like beautiful stacks to cut from, but looking past the beech at ash is like missing the forest for the trees.
I have yet to have any beech in my stacks, I have several on my property and there are many around my parts. It's just not a common firewood round here I suppose. I love ash as an "everyday" kind of firewood, so I'm always welcoming to any that comes my way.
yeah thats for sure. thats all we were after. a little maple of some sort in the truck as well but almost all beech. ash is lying on roadsides rotting everywhere.
nice clean flame if dried properly, better btu's than ash. bigger ones usually get punky and/or are filled with ants by the time they fall down. most of these were taken preemptively, i think to try to limit spread of beech bark disease on their property.
I like ash too. It's just about 1/3 less btu's than beech is for the same amount of work. Beech seasons quickly like ash as well. I'll have a lot of beech to burn the next couple of years. While I could cut ash to burn here, I won't haul it from my woodlot 20 miles from my house. I won't spread the EAB. I've got plenty of ash on my home lot though, so there's branches that I'll burn here. If EAB hits my house I'll unfortunately have a ton of ash to burn. It's great firewood, but you can't replace 30-40" diameter trees on your home lot.
yep. unfortunately its EAB is basically everywhere here. lots of trees <6" are unaffected for now but eventually most will die, unless treated which is actually pretty cheap for just a couple trees.
