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[GreatWhitehunter]

How's the winch working out for you?

Matt

 

[andy1981]

If your referring to me the winch works great one of the best attachments I've boughten.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Here's som pics from today and about 2 weeks ago from some hemlock I've been cutting to get sawn into boards for a bridge project. Our snow all melted earlier this week but the temps dropped back down Into the 20s last night and today and made it nice with no snow and the ground is nice and stiff. Tomorrows temps are going to be around a high of 30 here so I plan on getting a few more trees down an logs out

What are you building for a bridge Andy ??
Do you have Wooly Aldegid in your hemlock out there. We have them in the southern part of the state but not up here yet. One reason I wish it was colder. They say the cold might keep them away. Seems like everyone is cutting hemlock now.

gg

 

[andy1981]

What are you building for a bridge Andy ??
Do you have Wooly Aldegid in your hemlock out there. We have them in the southern part of the state but not up here yet. One reason I wish it was colder. They say the cold might keep them away. Seems like everyone is cutting hemlock now.

gg

i haven't seen the woolly adelgid yet here, I hope I dont as I have a lot of nice hemlock in my woods. I'm using the hemlock for redecking a steel framed walking bridge that is 76" wide by 300' long so I'm going to need quite a bit of lumber

 

[dirt ditch]

While I was at work, my wife used the tractor to move firewood to the porch before the big ice storm this weekend.

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[Piston]

While I was at work, my wife used the tractor to move firewood to the porch before the big ice storm this weekend.

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:thumbsup:

I think my wife has only used my tractor 2 or 3 times while I was away, but I thought it was the coolest thing when she did :laughing:

 

[Gordon Gould]

i haven't seen the woolly adelgid yet here, I hope I dont as I have a lot of nice hemlock in my woods. I'm using the hemlock for redecking a steel framed walking bridge that is 76" wide by 300' long so I'm going to need quite a bit of lumber

Sounds like you'll need 4000 BF or more for 2" decking - maybe ?? That will keep you busy a while. How do you get it sawn up ? Your own mill ?

gg

 

[John_Mc]

Here's som pics from today and about 2 weeks ago from some hemlock I've been cutting to get sawn into boards for a bridge project./QUOTE]

I hope you'll start a thread with progress photos on your bridge.

 

[andy1981]

I am going to have them sawn at 3" thick since they span the width of the bridge and doesn't really have any support in the center . A very good friend of mine lives across the street and has a band saw mill that will turn the logs to lumber for me and I will probably trade him some logs for his services since he is looking to build a sawmill shed.

 

[andy1981]

I post a few pictures of the bridge , it was originally built in the 1950s , it is a steel trestle frame bridge that spans a 300 ft gully that's about 50 ft deep

 

[Mikejeakins]

Has anyone know what other species the Emerald Ash Bore is killing? Also I read somewhere there Is a bug killing Oaks.

 

[motownbrowne]

Has anyone know what other species the Emerald Ash Bore is killing? Also I read somewhere there Is a bug killing Oaks.

You're not thinking of oak wilt are you?

 

[Mikejeakins]

I don't think so. I don't recall ever hearing a name.

 

[TomSeller]

I post a few pictures of the bridge , it was originally built in the 1950s , it is a steel trestle frame bridge that spans a 300 ft gully that's about 50 ft deep

Interesting. Please do post the pictures, sounds bigly.

 

[square1]

Has anyone know what other species the Emerald Ash Bore is killing? Also I read somewhere there Is a bug killing Oaks.

Michigan, ground zero for EAB, did some experiments early on forcing EAB to lay eggs on other tree species. The eggs did hatch but the EAB larva could not survive on non ash host trees. I have heard claims EAB has been found in other tree species, but have never heard a claim to be proven.

There are several borers that live on other trees, but they do not create vast networks of serpentine galleries in the cambium layer to girdle and kill the tree.

 

[John_Mc]

Has anyone know what other species the Emerald Ash Bore is killing? Also I read somewhere there Is a bug killing Oaks.

I've never seen a confirmed story of EAB killing other species of trees.

There are a lot of invasive insects out there: Hemlock Woolly Adelgid attacks Hemlock trees (and has really decimated Hemlock on some states). Asian Longhorned Beetle prefers maple, elm, horsechestnut, birch, willow and poplar. Probably every species of tree has a bug that attacks it. The question is whether the bug is highly invasive or not. The worst ones tend to be "exotic invasive": they come from overseas, and out native trees have no resistance, nor have predators developed. They can rip through a tree species unhindered.

BTW, there is some evidence that some Ash may have a bit of resitance/tolerance for EAB. If enough of these survive (or aren't taken in a mass harvest of Ash trees in an atempt to "get ahead" of the EAB) and their resistance grows stronger, there may be hope for the species.

 

[s219]

I remember when I was growing up in in Connecticut -- at some point in the 80s we became aware of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid as it began moving through the state. Not sure what effect it has had since I moved away. I feel like I see fewer hemlocks in our old neighborhood on Google satellite view than I remember. I know HWA has really decimated hemlocks down here in the mountains of Virginia. There were some very old stands of hemlock in Shenandoah National Park that are gone now.

 

[check]

My Wood Fence In Ontario, Canada. View attachment 362590View attachment 362591View attachment 362592View attachment 362593View attachment 362594

Hey, jetdriver, nice fence! Actually, Sharon and I drive right by your place all the time on the way to our cottage on Kawagama Lake, and we always enjoy seeing your fence wax and wane as the seasons draw on. (We also, like you, have a Kubota BX25.) BTW, do you sell any of it, and if so, what kind is it and how much per face cord?

Again, nice job! :thumbsup:

 

[wupham]

Has anyone know what other species the Emerald Ash Bore is killing? Also I read somewhere there Is a bug killing Oaks.

Emerald Ash Borer has also been found in White Fringetree. See Emerald ash borers found attacking white fringe tree | North Carolina Cooperative Extension The Chinese Fringetree has resistance. I have never seen any reports of EAB on oak.

 

[andy1981]

Here som pics of the bridge I've been cutting logs for.