Ash Trees Dying

[mikester]

We've lost quite a few in the past couple of years.

Surprisingly I'm seeing a lot of new growth suckers on the stumps of the trees I cut down.

 

[nyone]

We've lost quite a few in the past couple of years.

Surprisingly I'm seeing a lot of new growth suckers on the stumps of the trees I cut down.

I have seen suckers pop out of 18in long bucked up firewood. Stumps all the time too. They don't seam to last to long though.

I had a bunch of ash and nearly all of it got milled up into 1x or 2x boards. I currently am making stair treads out of the 2x material for a cabin. Some day il also make the rest into a 1,000,000 floor.

 

[ArlyA]

We are losing them all, I thought this was happening everywhere. Pretty easy to spot them.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

I thought it was more of a northern thing until I looked at an impact map online yesterday. They have made it as far south at Atlanta. The western US has not been impacted yet but they have far fewer Ash trees.

 

[ruffdog]

Burn the branches and keep the wood for fire pit or woodstove.

Emerald Ash Borer (FAQ).

 

[ArlyA]

We are near 100% dead here, but maybe we don't have that many.

 

[oldtimer 66]

It been well over five years since this EAB started here. I have been cutting these dead ash for some time. It's getting to a point that some of them are so dried up and rotten they are no good for fire wood. They will fall over and just blow apart when the hit the ground. Here are some pictures that I posted before when I repaired a Amish skidder/ new wheel bearings. Anyways that was in 2016. And that was the start of the EAB around here. My neighbor got lucky when he logged out his woods that year, because most his ash went for baseball bats. He had 53 tri-axle loads of logs taken out and like I said the majority of the ash went for baseball bats. But a large part of the remained logs, oak, beach, hemlock, etc., went into gondolas and shipped to China. How about that.

 

[ponytug]

Great looking pair!

 

[rademamj1]

I lost more than 40 Ash trees this summer, they withered and died with bark pealed back and all evidence points to this summers long drought here in Texas. EAB I considered possible, but I honestly don't know the indication or what to look for to confirm it was borers.

 

[lman]

If you peel the bark off and see this. It's been confirmed.