The Ash Borer is here in PA

[maplewood]

[quote author="... I already have more dead wood than I need.[/quote]

Could you let it stand for a few more years and then harvest it? I'm going to get a few dead elms this fall that the bark is falling off of.
They must be 3-5 years dead, but the wood is still good.

 

[golfandwoodnut]

yes, i can wait, currently I am only cutting up wood that is dead and fallen over. If it is standing I am letting it go. Fortuneatly I do not have alot of ash trees, although some are close to the house. I may take those out when they die so I can control where they fall.

 

[JustWood]

woodmaster the problem is wood prices are back to 1970s levels now and I think they would make a real mess of my woods. I will try to hold off as long as I can, or hopefully do a selective cut from time to time.

Ash and oak prices are the highest they have ever been recentLEE. Better check it out.

 

[golfandwoodnut]

woodmaster the problem is wood prices are back to 1970s levels now and I think they would make a real mess of my woods. I will try to hold off as long as I can, or hopefully do a selective cut from time to time.

Ash and oak prices are the highest they have ever been recentLEE. Better check it out.

Thanks Lee, I guess things change fast, about a year and a half ago I had a guy tell me they were really low.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

[quote author="... I already have more dead wood than I need.

Could you let it stand for a few more years and then harvest it? I'm going to get a few dead elms this fall that the bark is falling off of.
They must be 3-5 years dead, but the wood is still good.[/quote]

If you wait until at least 90% of that bark has fallen off it will split much, much easier. I also tend to think it burns a whole lot better because it doesn't get all torn apart during the splitting process.