[AT] OT Weather

[Indiana Robinson]

I too have lost a number of trees to high winds over the last few years. A
few were weak in spots and probably old enough to be at risk but I have
also lost many that were sound and would have been viable for many years
with more normal storms. The winds have been brutal especially the last 3
years.
I have and am still quickly losing many ash trees to the emerald ash borer.
Is that a factor in your area yet? I have two ash trees now dying that were
big trees when we moved to this farm 68 years ago. Probably a hundred that
are much smaller, maybe 8" to 14" trunks, many of which I planted or chose
to let grow after they sprouted from seed. A few of those are kind of close
to buildings and I need to cut them soon before that start failing. They
were supposed to out live me by a good margin... Those were planted
specifically for shade at those buildings.
If it gives you any encouragement I turn 77 in a few weeks and after I
finally got past serious muscle damage from various statins after my bypass
I am back to serious work. I'm still slower and I am still behind but I
still spend a fair amount of time swinging from a chainsaw and I do all of
my wood splitting by hand with an 8 pound maul. Really big blocks
especially those that are really gnarly I split with a batch of wedges (the
real old ones are far better than the new ones) and a 10 pound sledge.
I have now abandoned my 30 year plans...  :-)   I only get serious about 5
year planning now. I intend to stay active "by damn" and not always take
the easy road. It doesn't much matter what I am doing as long as I keep
doing. Too many of my old classmates that I stay in contact with are just
sitting around and are barely active at all.


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On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 9:20 AM Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:

>
> > I spent the last 2 days with some tree trimmers cutting trees from our
> > service line to the house and also taking out a tree about 8 ft from
> > the front of hte house that had several old wounds from Ice aand
> > tornadoes that had not healed properly.   Also had some bark beetles I
> > did not know about...
>
> We had a heavy wet snow last fall that came early and caught our trees
> with a lot of leafy vegetation due to late rains, I lost my work area
> shade tree, and several shade trees around the house. My biggest fear
> now is we will get the trees leafed out this spring and then get a wet
> mid April snow.  Historically we have had some snows as late as April
> 20.  They are very wet. and pile up on the corner posts as high as 4
> inches.
>
> When I built our house back in 1985 we had over 20 trees in the 1.5 acre
> yard area.  Thanks to ice storms and snow, we now have 8.  I had the
> tree trimmers cut the trees back a lot.  It should last 10 years.  I
> will be 75 then, and probably have to hire someone to cut the trees
> back.  Hopefully in 10 years I can still work in the snorklelift
> bucket....  This getting old ain't no fun....
>
> Cecil
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Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com
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