Ox Logging: After the Emerald Ash Borer

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  • August 6, 2012 at 2:58 am #43984
    Tim Harrigan
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    I put this short video together to show folks what they can expect to see if the Emerald Ash Borer attacks woodlands in your area.

    [video=youtube_share;xtXrfXNdwcM]http://youtu.be/xtXrfXNdwcM[/video]

    August 6, 2012 at 10:38 am #74663
    Does’ Leap
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    Thanks Tim – very informative. No evidence of EAB here in northern Vermont yet, but it seems inevitable. Are you able to sell logs after EAB damage or is it all firewood? What is the ash market like in your area?

    George

    August 6, 2012 at 10:40 am #74668
    Pete Jesse
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    Excellent video on another imported and devastating bug. We do not have the bore yet, a few counties away. I am watching my ash trying to decide if I should cut them now or wait and see what happens. My forester and a local mill says best to wait and see.

    August 6, 2012 at 12:00 pm #74664
    Tim Harrigan
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    George, you can sell the logs but as you can imagine the market is flooded. Last I checked the average stumpage for ash was about $125/mbf. At this point it is probably best if you can saw it up and use it on site, and it is one of the best fire woods there are. What is a good snag worth?

    August 7, 2012 at 6:30 pm #74661
    Marshall
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    I have about a half acre of ash trees in front of my house. The bug started showing up last year. I have started cutting them and hope to finish this coming winter. Its going to look awful bare for awhile but I should get a few years worth of heat out of them. Next will be to talk to the neighbor with about 15 acres of woods behind me. There are several ash trees there also.

    August 8, 2012 at 1:09 am #74665
    Tim Harrigan
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    The up side is it splits nice and burns hot.

    August 8, 2012 at 1:17 am #74662
    Marshall
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    @Tim Harrigan 36127 wrote:

    The up side is it splits nice and burns hot.

    Dries quick too! By the way, excellent video!

    August 9, 2012 at 8:30 pm #74667
    Baystatetom
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    Another great video Tim! Is it okay to email the link to some of my clients? Just heartbreaking to think of all the pests damaging our forest. We in southern New England are getting hit hard by the hemlock wooly adelgid already and the emerald ash borer is looming.
    ~Tom

    August 11, 2012 at 3:42 am #74666
    Tim Harrigan
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    @Baystatetom 36142 wrote:

    Another great video Tim! Is it okay to email the link to some of my clients? ~Tom

    Sure, no problem. It is for educational use, the more folks that benefit the better.

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