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Post by Bob on Jan 10, 2024 12:03:11 GMT -6
I am barely out of that area. It was also found 5 miles from where I live. It gets better. Apparently, the DNR is still allowing wood to be sold from that zone into the pallet factory in Remer. I don't know if they're using ash or not, but I just got 20 yards delivered this fall from that plant. Hope I didn't give it a lift out to my place from town.
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Post by Bob on Jan 10, 2024 12:09:49 GMT -6
**20 yards of wood chips.
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Post by Reagan on Jan 10, 2024 12:36:32 GMT -6
I believe if it’s chipped the EAB is supposed to be killed.
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Post by benmnwi on Jan 10, 2024 13:28:49 GMT -6
It won't likely make much difference either way since EAB is going to kill all of the ash trees eventually.
What are you going to do with 20 yards of wood chips?
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Post by Bob on Jan 11, 2024 12:10:45 GMT -6
It won't likely make much difference either way since EAB is going to kill all of the ash trees eventually. What are you going to do with 20 yards of wood chips? I always keep a pile around. I've had 10 yard loads the last couple times, and they last a couple years. This time, my neighbor had a dump truck and we've been doing each other lots of favors. He hauled it for me and gave me a sweet deal, so I had him bring me extra. I use it on top of my gardens, I used it when I'm mixing soil for new gardens, I keep about 100 trees mulched around the cabin, I refresh the wood chips around the campfire every couple years, and I keep my trail to the crap house mulched as well. I'm getting into the second addition of mulch around my spruces and pines, so they're starting to respond really well as that first batch rots down.
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Post by Sandbur on Jan 11, 2024 14:08:53 GMT -6
It won't likely make much difference either way since EAB is going to kill all of the ash trees eventually. What are you going to do with 20 yards of wood chips? I always keep a pile around. I've had 10 yard loads the last couple times, and they last a couple years. This time, my neighbor had a dump truck and we've been doing each other lots of favors. He hauled it for me and gave me a sweet deal, so I had him bring me extra. I use it on top of my gardens, I used it when I'm mixing soil for new gardens, I keep about 100 trees mulched around the cabin, I refresh the wood chips around the campfire every couple years, and I keep my trail to the crap house mulched as well. I'm getting into the second addition of mulch around my spruces and pines, so they're starting to respond really well as that first batch rots down. Don’t confuse them with the litter box!
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Post by Bwoods11 on Jan 11, 2024 14:20:19 GMT -6
Cut some ash down and mill it.. it’s great milled lumber! The local brewery in town has a cool ash bar! I might have a picture I can post later .
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Post by nhmountains on Jan 11, 2024 18:59:19 GMT -6
It won't likely make much difference either way since EAB is going to kill all of the ash trees eventually. What are you going to do with 20 yards of wood chips? I always keep a pile around. I've had 10 yard loads the last couple times, and they last a couple years. This time, my neighbor had a dump truck and we've been doing each other lots of favors. He hauled it for me and gave me a sweet deal, so I had him bring me extra. I use it on top of my gardens, I used it when I'm mixing soil for new gardens, I keep about 100 trees mulched around the cabin, I refresh the wood chips around the campfire every couple years, and I keep my trail to the crap house mulched as well. I'm getting into the second addition of mulch around my spruces and pines, so they're starting to respond really well as that first batch rots down. I’ve got 30 tons staying as part of my contract. I’ll be using them for mulching trees and possibly filling in ruts on trails when needed. There could be a lot of money in a pile of chips in a few years if the worms and crawlers take hold like they do in the mulch at home. What does a box of night crawlers cost? At home last summer each shovel full had a dozen or more worms/crawlers in it. I believe I read if you had 20 worms in a square foot of mulch that would be over 1,000,000 worms an acre.
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Post by Bob on Jan 12, 2024 22:02:42 GMT -6
Cut some ash down and mill it.. it’s great milled lumber! The local brewery in town has a cool ash bar! I might have a picture I can post later . I may do that. The one nice thing about that ash is it grows straight and clear on my place. I’ll keep harvesting as much as I can for my neighbors as long as they can use it. When I get the digger out next summer, I’m gonna make some short U shaped trails into and back out from my access trails so I can get in there and get this stuff out easily.
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Post by Bob on Jan 13, 2024 10:45:51 GMT -6
I always keep a pile around. I've had 10 yard loads the last couple times, and they last a couple years. This time, my neighbor had a dump truck and we've been doing each other lots of favors. He hauled it for me and gave me a sweet deal, so I had him bring me extra. I use it on top of my gardens, I used it when I'm mixing soil for new gardens, I keep about 100 trees mulched around the cabin, I refresh the wood chips around the campfire every couple years, and I keep my trail to the crap house mulched as well. I'm getting into the second addition of mulch around my spruces and pines, so they're starting to respond really well as that first batch rots down. I’ve got 30 tons staying as part of my contract. I’ll be using them for mulching trees and possibly filling in ruts on trails when needed. There could be a lot of money in a pile of chips in a few years if the worms and crawlers take hold like they do in the mulch at home. What does a box of night crawlers cost? At home last summer each shovel full had a dozen or more worms/crawlers in it. I believe I read if you had 20 worms in a square foot of mulch that would be over 1,000,000 worms an acre. Seems like an opportune time to share Bob's earthworm fact sheet again. Earthworm pops like that are very possible, and can generate up to $108,000 in worm castings per acre per season. worldagriculturesolutions.com/2016/05/11/earthworm-primer/#:~:text=%E2%80%93%3E%20Over%20a%20typical%205%20to,earthworm%20castings%20per%20square%20foot!
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Post by Bwoods11 on Jan 13, 2024 12:20:59 GMT -6
Good luck !!
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Post by nhmountains on Jan 20, 2024 17:21:18 GMT -6
My experience with the modern timber harvesting has ups and downs. I feel the modern logging equipment is faster but, requires a lot of road systems. Therefore there’s a lot more trees cut. That will mean more money in your pocket but, less trees. In my case, it didn’t matter as much as I wanted all of the mature pine and hemlock gone. They did take more red maple in places I was hoping they wouldn’t and cut some young sugar maples in the process of cutting trees. My forester says those younger tree stumps will root sprout and actually be better trees in 10 years. I saw some incidental scraping of trees on the skid roads. More than I’d have liked. On the other hand overall it’s looking like the harvest was 15-20% higher than he had quoted. Again some of that is skid roads.
I’d definitely hire a forester again for sure. He handled everything and was there for every question I had. My property had plenty of mature timber. I may have had problems getting a forester or logger if it wasn’t ready for a big cut.
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Post by terrifictom on Feb 1, 2024 11:26:14 GMT -6
Just scheduled a walk thru with the State forester for our county to do a walk thru to get the ball rolling on a timber harvest on Feb 20th. After the walk thru they will recommend a private forester and let me know any programs that might be available.
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Post by Sandbur on Feb 1, 2024 14:24:22 GMT -6
Just scheduled a walk thru with the State forester for our county to do a walk thru to get the ball rolling on a timber harvest on Feb 20th. After the walk thru they will recommend a private forester and let me know any programs that might be available. It looks like my timber harvest is on hold due to warm weather and not enough frost.
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Post by terrifictom on Feb 1, 2024 18:30:51 GMT -6
Just scheduled a walk thru with the State forester for our county to do a walk thru to get the ball rolling on a timber harvest on Feb 20th. After the walk thru they will recommend a private forester and let me know any programs that might be available. It looks like my timber harvest is on hold due to warm weather and not enough frost. Probably better to wait than tear every thing up. It sure will be nice to do walk thru with little to no snow on ground. Hoping to get this going for a harvest next winter.
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