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<p>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..<br>
Cecil<br>
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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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<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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Central Indiana USA<br>
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