Am nearing the end of my EAB dead Ash trees. Was dry this summer for a very long time so I was able to get into some on the place we bought where it generaly stays wet. Yesterday one of those dead Ash trees got me. It was surrounded by some decent elm trees as I did the walk around trying to decide if it had a lean to it. I decided it had a slight lean to the south so cut my notch. when to the oppsite side and started cutting. didn't go in far and it cracked and pinched the bar. I had been about to remove the saw and use the sledge and wedge to make it go. Notch was to big to use the wedge on that side. Only one thing left to do at that point, get the Jred and cut a new notch above the stuck saw then cut on the back side of that notch and remove my stuck saw. Every think came out as planed that time. I have 2 left in that area to take out and about another 10 to 12 left total in the woods. Once those are gone I will start removing all the Elm. Elm gets to about 10 inches then dies. I see no reason to take out Maples and Oaks when there is about 6 years of elm that is fire wood size. I have a bunch of Ash seedlings about knee high be intresting to see if I live so long if thre EAB come back once they get some size to them. Al
I really don't like cutting standing dead trees. Too dangerous as they can snap and large limbs can fall out of the top. Make sure you are looking up.
Could you have gotten to the tree with your tractor? Carefully put pressure on the tree with the bucket and remove your saw...
No way I am going to risk a $20,000 tractor over a pinched $300.00 saw. When a second $400.00 saw could fix the problem. Al
Thought I had gotten some pictures yesterday, but It is a cannon camera and I am so use to a Kodak with a SD card OR internal memory. So the rain had stopped so I headed back to my pile then the woods for pictures this time with an SD card installed. The pile I have up here, there is another big one by the house. Rain started again by the time I got nearly back to the house. As you can see there is no dry rot, just good solid wood. Got a picture of a doe and fawn also. Al
Tried to get a picture of the straight tall stuff, nearly dead center in the picture, follow the gray up. This one is just to the left of the stubby. The leaves make it hard to see but this one is leaning to the left and there is a short stub where a branch had been. A lot just rotted the roots off and blew down in a spring wind, summer, fall one and some times in the winter. Tree(')s are as solid as cam be. Al
