[AT] Burn bans

[Cecil Bearden]

Dad & I planted a bunch of Green Ash tree seedlings about 30+ years 
ago.  I wish they had been planted where we really could use the shade 
to work under instead of fence rows.  We lost a couple to lightning and 
also to sheep eating the bark...  My Hack berry trees that I use for 
shade to work under, one has been eaten up by bag worms and the other 
had a forked trunk, the ice storm took out one side this winter and the 
other laid over last month when we had a 70mph North wind.  I have 
wanted to make a wood chip fired boiler to heat the barn with.  I have 
an 8inch Morbark with hydraulic feed..
Cecil

On 4/23/2020 10:40 PM, Mike M wrote:
> 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
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> 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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>> Francis Robinson
>> aka "farmer"
>> Central Indiana USA
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