I might have told ya. But I found a horse shoe grown over in a big Doug Fir years ago. I can’t even imagine how it got there. That tree was in the middle of the Pike National Forrest. That was before camera phones. Wish I had a pic.
Ya never know whats lurking in wood. We need to invent a saw with a sensor that detects metal and beeps, blinks and stops the chain before we cut into it.
I didnt look that close just flipped the round out of the way after i bucked it and spotted the shiny spot. Its definitely a nail on the other pic. One cut and each side of the rounds. I havent split those yet and will investigate further next time
I've milled through .22 bullets in pine. And I've heard of many people cutting through nails. Since they aren't hardened metal, shouldn't do tons of damage. Hit a screw though and you'll come to s screeching halt! Ask me how I know. Glad to hear it didn't end your day.
Snow had me getting bad cabin fever today. After a trip to the grocery store with Ms. buZZsaw i decided to go cut despite the snow cover. 16" +DBH tree today. Wasnt planning on cutting it up but kept going. Fresh crisp air and some saw time great for the psyche. rot didnt go all the way to the stump. Lots of "D" holes from the EAB's. May do some splitting there this week.
Yup, cant say ive ever seen a dead one with this many borer holes in it. All over it. Why i took the pic. My "new" camera doesnt zoom well.
I was at the Ftwayne Zoo in October. They have the largest stand of living ash I know of around here. Trees are obviously treated but the workers couldn’t tell me with what. I was glad to see some healthy ones.
They treat many of the ash trees in town around here. They've been treating them for a long time. Unfortunately the treatment doesn't work. I see signs of the ash borer. My neighbor had 2 big ash trees on his lot line with the other neighbor. He had a service treat those ash trees for nearly a decade. Both died. I had a number of ash trees that I treated with the Bayer treatment. Same result. All are either in my stacks, or turned into ash from my stove.
Ash to ashes. Wondering what the population cycle looks like for these borers (not just Ash). They seem to have done way too much damage in recent years for it to be sustainable. I've heard the infestation mentioned corresponding to our drought here in the SW. This would indicate healthy trees are not susceptible. I see many trees get sick and die because people dont give them enough water due to pressure from the city to conserve water.
yeah, I think these borers will run out of trees to kill, and that might/ should do them in, albeit too late. I was hoping we'd have some really cold Winters that would've killed them, but that didn't fully happen. It gets colder here in the States than in Asia where they are from, but our warming winter temps have not done anything to help with killing EAB.
I hear ya. There is more farther back on the steep slope. Some snapped off. If i was ambitious id get in there and check them out. The main trail is level and the terrain leading to where the cut is is flat as well. Sugar maple blow down of the slope nearly 45* and on rocks.
One of the trees to come down may still have life left to it. If not its the one that died last and the bark will be tight.
Rain held off and some snow melted so i did more CS. Will do more CS this week. Some good firewood making weather coming.
When I first started burning wood, I cut in similar conditions. Rocked chain a bunch even being as careful as possible. This experience led me to the progressive style depth gauge plates. The style that sit on top of the chain eventually had me making crooked cuts. Fun times. How far do you have to carry splits to load Brad?
