[AT] OT Weather

[joehardy]

Here in NE pa have similar problems with ash.  Neighbor recently sold a truck load of ash logs to a broker for $7K! Being sent to  China. Joe Hardisky Ryman Farm Dallas, PA


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-------- Original message --------From: Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com> Date: 3/7/19  1:51 PM  (GMT-05:00) To: Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com> Subject: Re: [AT] OT Weather 
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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