Emerald Ash Borer is ruining a key part of our forest!
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- In this video we look at the negative effects the emerald ash borer is having on our homestead forest as it is wiping out EVERY ash tree on our farm. The only thing we can do is mill the trees worth milling or cut them up for firewood. I fear they will be completely gone in 5 years or less.
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You are a MACHINE. Nice job splitting those logs. My arms would have given out after the second one.Great, new background music as well. Thanks for the variation.Need more of Kelly's cooking videos...All the best from N Idaho
The camera doesn't show all...Kelly will be back on camera on Friday!
Great video. We have a 450 acre farm in eastern Ohio and are experiencing the same thing. We have an outdoor wood boiler and have been burning only ash for the last few years. We love your videos 👍👍
Thanks for watching! Yes, burn it while you can!
Think I saw a smart ash at the end when the tractor arrived.
WOW! I’m impressed with the chopping of that firewood! We’re the logs already cut? 😂
Nice. Kelly loosened them up already.
Impressive wood chopping!You should be ready for the Webster Springs competition!
Thanks, Matt! Come up and we will enter as a team.
We spent the better part of a week bulldozing the dead ash trees around the pastures into huge piles. Now we will wait for the onslaught of autumn olive. Someone told me using one of our excavators to hold up the log to cut it up was cheating. You gave me another idea for a farm story - I have done one on pin hookers - now I need to do one on equipment hooking. Maybe call it “hooking up the holler”.
That would be a good one!
Spent the best part of the day splitting a 60/70 ft red oak that came down in a storm .... had to split the rounds at least in half or sometimes thirds just to get them out of the woods to the ATV trailer. It’s hard work, but I love it and you get bonus cardio😀💪
Henry Ford said split your own firewood and it will heat you twice.
Red Tool House - Homestead and a third time, when you find out what a chiropractor charges to fix your back...
when I was young we used ash for stove wood to cook with and oak to heat. Like you said it burns good.Thanks for the info.
Thanks for watching!
The Amish in my area prefer ash for their cook stoves..
We had a live oak with what I thought were bore holes. The holes were only through the bark and in a straight line. My wife said it is from a woodpecker. Not sure. Loved the music to cut rounds by.
It is a sap sucker, a member of the wood pecker family that makes a lot of those holes in a row on a tree. Usually kills it over time. see them a lot on apple trees.
Yup, I agree with William wood pecker/sap sucker. Fun to watch but they can be hard on a tree or two in the forest.
An example any arbor professional could appreciate
Thanks!
You’re welcome This is an extremely awesome example of the same from a pro. ua-cam.com/video/MkmG6Far5_A/v-deo.html
Thanks for video on Ash bore. Have heard that very cold Temps -30 or below could really slow them down and kill many ash bores. This temp rarely occurs in the NE anymore for any length of time.
We have never had that temp in WV in my 45 years.
Awe the gathering of fire wood lots of memories and better heat in my opinion.
Twice
Well done on the log split Troy and I noticed the wife had red clothes on and she gave you the dark coloured coat .Steve in Thailand.
I am a bigger target too.
Aye man nice ideas one thing you missing you should build zombie proof bunker in case of apocalypse
That block of wood the splitter jammed in - that's what eucalypts do. Pneumatic splitters are our friend.
Never have experienced eucalyptus trees. Sounds like hickory around here.
Red Tool House - Homestead on a dull overcast day, the chainsaw will throw visible sparks cutting our local ironbark.
Everything seems harder in Australia.
Red Tool House - Homestead partly the timber thing is the idiocy of our ancestors. They went and cut out all the nice straight-grained trees with good quality timber they could use for something, and left behind the twisty knotty useless stuff. Guess which trees were left to set seed! 😒
But it is a bloody-minded continent. Sometimes I wonder if that's why so much of our population prefers to live in our state capitals. :-(
In my part of Indiana, the ash have been dead long enough to be rotten. Some still standing and some with the tops coming down. I recommend a bigshot sling shot. It allows me to put a good strong rope high in the tree and pulling on them before I cut. Sometimes I don't need to cut at all. This also lowers the risk of a widow maker taking me out. Get after the cutting. Soon they will be to rotten to make decent fire wood. When they hit the ground, they explode into soft useless junk wood. Yes it will still burn, but makes very little good heat.
Ours are starting to rot on the outside. I figure we have 2 years max before they are too far gone.
We are at ground zero for ash borer outside of Detroit. We have a lot of standing dead ash on our property. It’s been so long since ash borer started here I’ve actually seen some growing back.
It would be nice if there could be a new generation of ash
Red Tool House - Homestead it would be great. My fear is that once the ash voters wipe out the country they’ll come back around to where they started. We can hope though.
Then 10-10-10 several cups around them bases to boost them in spring
So, Kelly is planning to get you back in shape even if it kills you...
Yes, I would agree with that.
The woodpeckers have found another food source. It won't save the current infected ones but will help in the future. They are going after them like crazy here. Even have the pileated ones in the yard. I did save a huge one in my back lot. They don't like turpentine. I drilled a few holes in the trunk and poured turpentine in the holes. It is budding nice this year. Lost a couple lower branches the rest seems to be doing ok.
That was a good work out Troy, we only saw Kelley hook once. Then you did the rest of the hooking, lol. I'm starting to see maples and locust trees dying on my property as well. Not seeing any evidence of the ash borer causing this. Maybe its a blight in them too.
I believe there is a maple blight. Not sure about the locust.
Hi Troy,
Any chance you could collect Ash seeds, then plant them ten years down the road, when the beetles have moved out of the area? Cheers,
Bill
I need to research more about the ash to see how early the saplings produce seed. That is about all we have left alive.
It really seems like several species of trees, are also having issues I'm losing red oaks some maples, almost all the elm trees are dead, and yes the ash are stricken with the ash bore, it's ready sad to see these awesome trees die off, I'm in Marshall county wv. Thanks for sharing! P.S. Awesome mull work troy!!!
WE may just be left with sycamore and pine. What a sad world that would be...
Red Tool House - Homestead just whatever you do, don't plant eucalypts. They produce nectar for bees only once every few years, they kill the grass underneath, they are edible to nothing except koalas - even goats will only eat limited amounts - they drop limbs at random in hot weather, and they promote wildfire.
I don't think they will grow in our climate. Some people use them as house plants around here.
I think my Dad called them chain setters when he owned a logging business. Sounds a bit better. lol
Eliminates confusion as well....
I am in north western Ont, Canada and the only ash we have is black ash, you can and i have cut it and burned it the same day, but it burn very slow and a fare bit of heat, but if you dry it for one summer it burns long an very hot, it is very wet when first cut and heavy as hell, and when it drys it is still very heavy wood, i have some huge tall back ash strait as can be and i had a lot sawed for hard wood floors as i love the bark brown wood in the enter and fads out to the outer edge, all the black ash in these whole area is thriving, it has a really tight growth rings so tight it is really hard to count them, there has been no cases of and ash boar in all of north western Ont, and we are only like an hour from rydens MI boarder. i do know back in the early 1980's we got hit bad with the spruce bud worm that came up from the USA and wiped out hundreds of thousands of hectors of big spruce trees and i was working in the bush for a big pulp and paper company, and they closed camps down in the far north to move all there equipment to the south east to clean up all the dying spruce trees, how ever wind took a lot down and we were picking up wind falls for 6 years, i had bough my land before then, and my land got hit, and it didnt think it was hit that bad, so i had it select cut, well that was the plan, but the more they cut the more huge gray spruce were popping out, so it ended up clear cut, leaving the stands of Jake pine and black ash and i replanted 60,000 seedlings after i had the land totally stripped of stumps an brush, by a D-8 and made 2 big fields for live stock, take hundreds of years for a black ash to grow, how ever the spruce have been coming back strong
spruce is a good tree. We have some in the higher elevations in WV.
Kentucky has been hit hard.
yeah, I have some friends in central KY saying the same.
The borers are still spotty in my area - not widespread yet. But they're coming.
I have a huge (3ft diameter) ash I need to drop before they kill it and it falls uncontrolled (onto my neighbors shed)
Yeah, that will come down limb at a time and tear up much.
Our ash is all just about done in SWPA. Sad.
And get some Blaze Orange on man!
No doubt!
I planted an American chestnut and it was dead by year 7 due to the blight. I was hoping that there wouldn't be any blight because all the chestnuts in my area had been dead for 50 years....oh well.
I believe the blight is in the ground. I don't think it will ever go away.
I learned that the spores live in the old stumps of dead trees for decades..@@RedToolHouse
Just to set the record straight the ash borer was first located in Michigan and not Canada.
Here in Pa. The ash are all gone.
Not necessarily. In northeast Ohio the borer has been here for at least 8 years. They absolutely decided the ash in my area, BUT there are always a few survivors. I dont think the ash will be completely eradicated.
I hope that is the case. I think the seed bank will be around for a while so I hope to borer moves on or dies out.
Same here in Michigan. Haven't seen a live one in 15 years.
Hope we see some deer hunting
My deer hunting isn't very exciting. I shoot them in the back yard when it is time.
@@RedToolHouse that's fine we just love deer hunting.... I'm working on being able to shoot from the front porch drinking coffee
Nice Kelly sorry Troy lol
Hey, you better rake that forest.
That would keep me busy. It won't burn, though. It won't stop raining!
So when the beetle bores a hole in a ash tree is that called a “ash hole” 🙄
Good name for the tree killing beetle I suspect ..
You may be onto something there. My wife says she is surrounded by ash holes.
You must not think too much of your family! No saw chaps, no eye protection, no hearing protection! You get hurt badly! Who replaces you!?
Most of the time I wear all of the above. As in this video when I was cutting the tree...
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Thanks for sharing
Here on the Pacific Coast, California, Oregon, and Washington State we have had the Pacific tree bark beetle. This insect has desastated old growth forests in all three states. If you fly over the forest you can see the dead trees standing among the dying tree. It is because of this beetle these three states have suffered major forest fires. When you have dead and dying trees in a forest it is difficult to put out fire when you have available dried out fire wood just waiting for the flame.
It is a real shame that you havethe ask borer in your area. I truly believe that this and a fwe other infestations are caused by Eco-terrorists.
Swing that ax Paul. LOL :-) (Paul Bunyan) :-)
Globalism has changed the ecology everywhere. Part of our "progress" I guess.
So punny!!
Order a mojette injection kit from DoMyOwnPestControl.com and drill the holes around the bases at the flare in the spring...,when saps flowing... you want the insecticide/fungus mix!!! 2 dozen caps is like a hundo... I actually buy quarts and refill my caps!!! I’m cheap!!! You got to get a systemic insecticide / fungicide into those trees!!!!
I think they are too far gone.
JJ Mauget CO... .... imisol..,.
Regardless if ones Ash tree has already become infested, treatment will immediately protect what life remains in tree without any further decline. As Ash are iconic for retaining youthful vigor well past age 100. But unlike today's last old growth American Chestnut surviving blight by producing sucker shoots from original 100+ old root systems. Ash trees in woodland settings have no chance to regrow through basil sprouts, even though EAB does not directly damage root system. But because settings with almost endless square footage of available living Ash tree "Phloem" causes first few arriving borers populations to exponentially build. Thus four year curve of death. Able to kill 1/4 Ash one year, and by fourth year 99.9% all dead. Watch for last generations of sapling trees, as ash seeds can still germinate four years later. EAB first begins damaging ash stem when reaches 1" DBH or 3" around.
*Remember, only unprotected trees die from EAB! **_Danger from damaging Borer "Infestation" populations inevitably passes locally within 12-15 years._*_ Borers do not "Infect" or disease Ash, like Dutch Elm does._* _Learn from a huge towering forest of facts in order to become your communities most knowledgeable Ash tree/EAB expert, by checking out my Scottie Ash Seed blog_ scottieashseed.wordpress.com/
Your trees will all be dead within 1 year. Sorry.
Pretty much all of the are already. There are a few that remain but I fear you are right.
Red Tool House - Homestead time to really plan what to plant back. How's progress with those hybrid Chestnuts that are resistant to whatever it was that killed off the American Chestnut? Do you have a list of tree species and cultivars that will grow on your land?