My racks are all full and I've got wood stacked in places where wood probably shouldn't be, but yesterday I learned that a neighbor three doors down (less than 200' in my neighborhood) is planning to have a big standing dead ash taken out of their back yard because it's adjacent to the driveway and starting to rain debris on their cars. There's a smaller maple growing up through it so there's still a lot of green, but the ash is dead, dead, dead. It was heavily topped off, probably 20 years ago or more, so now it looks like a shrub on a stick -- a stout trunk bristling with too many branches close together around the old cuts. Knowing that before long there will be no more ash to be had, I'd hate to see it wasted.
Dam Jon, I thought my lot was small, I feel your pain about storage! I'm on about 1/3 acre…. Go get it!!!! you'll figure something out….. I've had my driveways filled before, neighbors thought I was a bit cooky till I told them what my heating/electric bills were compaired to theres! It wasn't so funny then
I probably have a while to dream up some storage arrangement. A tree service was doing some trimming for another neighbor yesterday, and I happened to be nearby when the people with the ash tree chatted up the tree service guy about the removal. I don't think they're on anyone's schedule yet, but they are clearly heading in that direction. I only hope I'm around to buck the pieces, because the tree guy was justifying his price estimate by saying that with a trunk that size (only a little over 2' DBH) they'd have to cut it into 6" slices.
I would definitely make it known right away when they have it taken down to let you do the bucking up of the trunk rather than the tree service. That should also save the home owners a few dollars. Go get 'em Jon!
