[AT] Burn bans

[Mike M]

Believe me when I say this Farmer, you won't realize how many Ash trees
you had until the EAB moves through. Here in Michigan every Ash tree is
dead. I found a young live one and transplanted it to the yard, as they
make really nice trees. I treat it twice a year with Dominion 2L drench.
A researcher at Michigan State University has been able to keep a yard
full of Ash alive and well using this method. Time will tell if it works.

Mike M

On 4/23/2020 10:57 PM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
> We have burned more brush than usual this year, much of it a side
> product of firewood cutting and accumulating saw logs. What we burn is
> smaller branches than many folks would be burning because we save
> fairly small stuff as heating fuel. Our furnace firebox is quite large
> and will hold enough "sticks" to heat for maybe 4 hours when loaded
> with wood as small as an inch in diameter as long as they are fairly
> straight. We don't save a lot of 1" sticks but do save anything from
> about 1.5" and up. The furnace will accept wood up to almost 3' long
> if stuck in on an angle but about 28" long is about an ideal average.
> When it is low on fuel a piece of firewood 12" in diameter and 30"
> long can be loaded.
> I have several brush piles of fence-row brush to burn yet but my
> fields there and one of my neighbors fields across the fence are still
> corn stubble. I will not burn those piles until those fields are
> tilled. I have several brush piles that are semi-permanent and I leave
> them for wildlife shelter. I also have several wooded places where I
> just toss brush into the edge over a bank and just let it rot in
> place. Some small stuff like raked up leaves, small sticks and raked
> up bark from processing get put in a pile to compost down. Once
> started it goes pretty fast.
> I should mention that son Scott who mows most of our horse lots and
> open areas with a 15' bat-wing is not especially fond of my wildlife
> shelter piles but he tolerates them.  :-)
> At this point the horse pastures are quite green and most of them
> still short. They are about 2 weeks from a big growth spurt.
> I have maybe a couple of hundred current or future victims of the
> Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) to drop and cut up. I also have a number of
> overgrown trees that are a threat to buildings etc. to cut. I dropped
> a smallish ash tree that I had planted for shade at one barn and its
> trunk will yield an 8" x 8" replacement square post for that barn.
> That barn needs about 8 replacement post installed. I'll have plenty
> of ash for them. The firewood stack will do OK but I'll have a lot of
> small brush to deal with. I considering a big hole...
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> Central Indiana USA
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