[AT] firewood

[Larry D Goss]

Right, Mark  Theoretically, it hasn't hit my property yet, but I've still 
lost all the ash trees to some sort of borer that eats the area under the 
bark and girdles the tree.  They die within a couple of weeks after having 
been infested.  The whole state of Indiana is now quarantined.  Ash cannot 
be shipped out of state as of this week.

Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Greer" <greerfam at raex.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] firewood


> Throughout the Midwest there will be mountains of Ash cut down in the next
> few years. An invasive bug from Asia called the Emerald Ash Borer is 
> killing
> Ash trees by the thousands and there is no known control for it.
> Mark
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Wilkens" <jwilkens at eoni.com>
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> Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 1:00 PM
> Subject: RE: [AT] firewood
>
>
>> I'd sure like to try that ash wood.  Sounds about perfect.  Dry Yew
>> wood is super too but it is scarce as hen's teeth.  We have two
>> Vermont Castings air-tight stoves in the house which run most of the
>> winter.  I don't mind the occasional trips out to the woodshed on a
>> cold winter night with my wood carrier.  It gives me a good stretch
>> and fresh air.  We have a good furnace but there's nothing like wood
>> heat.  I kinda think "a house without a hearth is a home without a
>> heart."  (Not true of course).    I've got an old wood burner in the
>> shop that consumes my wet or dry aspen (from a big aspen grove behind
>> the shop) and other junk wood too big or wet to burn in the
>> house.  That old stove burns hot so moisture isn't a problem.    John
>>
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