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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. <br>
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Mike M<br>
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<div dir="ltr">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.
<div>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.</div>
<div>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. :-)</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div>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...</div>
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aka "farmer"<br>
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