EAB The Three F's

[Arbonaut]

There is an insect which threatens the availability of your firewood supply.
The European Emerald Ash Borer Beetle: Friend? Foe? or Fishbait?
I know a man who is a professional entomologist. To regular folk, the man seems eccentric. I think he even looks like a bug. He has no problem with a cockroach in his home or any spider (arachnid) or fly he can keep around. His home is a veritable ecosystem of its own. You mention killing insects to this man, and he will bug out on you. In his apprehension, our world relies on and is intertwined with theirs. If the world could be made of just enough like-minded souls and insects he would consider it Utopian. People who are like this about creatures and those who are neutral about trees or insects that aren't a pest in their home may subscribe to his idea to leave insects alone in the wild. For this individual, it is his life's work.
Others see the EAB as a pest, a disease vector or pathogen. This group will actively seek to destroy it.
Someone posted on a thread I started yesterday on ArboristSite that they buy it and use the EAB for fishbait successfully. People doing this have found a beneficial use for what others consider a threat.
The EAB where do you stand?

 

[slowp]

I think it might rain today, so I stand in raingear.

 

[Gologit]

I have to go to town today so I'll probably be standing in line.

 

[branchbuzzer]

I stand in awe of the master and it's duplicate thread posting prowess.

 

[Arbonaut]

Right. Neutral got those. Next?

 

[thepheniox]

Wow. I'm gonna stand in waders and hope the bs doesn't get any deeper.

 

[CWME]

There is an insect which threatens the availability of your firewood supply.
The EAB where do you stand?

Based on the fact that you are posting in the "firewood, Heating and Wood Burning Equipment" thread I think you already answered your own question with your first sentence:msp_confused:

 

[Circle B MN]

:deadhorse:

 

[Blazin]

EAB's=BTU's....dot dot dot

 

[Marc]

 

[Whitespider]

Well guys, I officially burned the last of 3-cord this morning.
WOW, what a change from last year when I had burned near 9-cord by mid-February.
This mild, mild winter has saved me near 6-cord so far... compared to last winter.
I'm now 100% sure I won't be needing to use any of my oak this year and it puts way ahead on my cutting.
How much do you guys think it's saved you compared to last year?

(Thread hijacked courtesy of the Alien)

 

[zogger]

Don't have EAB here yet, so don't know about it. Got ashes of course. I take a few, not many, because I know it will get here eventually and I'll take them then.

With that said, I much prefer those giant white grubs I find inside of standing dead tulip poplar for fishing. The bass here love 'em. I call 'em woodshrimp.

 

[thepheniox]

I think it has saved me about two cords this year.

Oh ya. Thanx for asking.

 

[ray benson]

We have burned just under 2.5 cord so far. Only a few wheelbarrow loads of Ash. And it was free of the EAB. The EAB is supposedly in our area but we are not yet quarantined. Not sure how much less we have burned than last year.

 

[CWME]

Been able to burn pine instead of hardwood and also do two load cycles a day instead of three or four. I have saved about 2 cords of hardwood this year already. I can't cut wood next fall because I will have no place to put it.

 

[Marc]

Been able to burn pine instead of hardwood and also do two load cycles a day instead of three or four. I have saved about 2 cords of hardwood this year already. I can't cut wood next fall because I will have no place to put it.

Blasphemy! Make a pair of stilts and stack higher!

 

[savageactor7]

We expect the EAB to impact our area sometime in the near future. I'm not looking forward to it at all. Ash trees are my favorite to harvest. They're straight growing with minimum hassle limbs. For a guy just harvesting for his own heating needs working alone I can make good production with them so I will miss those trees when they're gone.

On the other hand I burn anything like willow and poplar and that junk tree aka 'Canadian maple' ...I forget what's it called. These new stoves are very junk wood friendly imo.

Also Ash is the only tree that has not rolled on me while limbing so it's been 1 less risk calculation/countermeasure we have to deal with. I really worry what will replace my live ash trees...bass wood and Mulberry I've been culling as an invasive species.

I suppose I should be grateful to the Lord for whatever I can cut and leave it at that.

 

[Whitespider]

I suppose I burned so much last year was because I didn’t have a single stick of firewood put up at Halloween time and had to make do cutting standing-dead elm all winter. Made the decision late to start heating with wood again… and then we had that brutal winter when I really could have used some oak or hickory. Cutting standing-dead ya’ also get a lot of “not-so-good” and “wet(ish)” wood that’ll cause ya’ to use more. Worked my tail off late last winter/early spring putting up 12-cord of oak so I’d be prepared this year… looks like I’ll be well prepared for the next few winters when I finish cutting this season. Appears that 5-cord of standing-dead elm I put up last fall, along with a few oak end-cuts/odds & ends is gonna’ carry me through this winter without a hitch.

I was planning on spending those “cold” days this year with my feet up, drinkin’ Budweiser and lookin’ out the window while I enjoyed the heat from labor… But it’s been so mild I’ve been outside all winter… and not just cutting firewood… doin’ all kinds of stuff.

(Thread hijacked courtesy of the Alien)

 

[branchbuzzer]

Been able to burn pine instead of hardwood and also do two load cycles a day instead of three or four. I have saved about 2 cords of hardwood this year already. I can't cut wood next fall because I will have no place to put it.

Blasphemy! Make a pair of stilts and stack higher!

and if that doesn't work out, some other members here will be glad to donate some "storage space".

 

[Arbonaut]

Been able to burn pine instead of hardwood and also do two load cycles a day instead of three or four. I have saved about 2 cords of hardwood this year already. I can't cut wood next fall because I will have no place to put it.

Some places they're cracking down on storing it from one year to the next. That makes a dillemma< Guido, Check that spelling?