Ash Tree Wood available

wildlifeboy

Hello, I am putting up a fence and I have chopped down most of a fairly established Ash tree. I have left most of it still in the ground and i am planning on building the fence up to it. anyway if anyone wants to take it away they are welcome to it. i have no idea if ash is worth anything and it will just be used for firewood other wise. ill post a pick up later. it is mutli stemmed if you can say that and there wasnt a main trunk. i reckon each stem is about 6 inchs diameter. also if anyone wants losts of ash branches they can have them.

pwurple

And are you in donegal, cork, mayo, or where?

TheBody

^^^^lol

wildlifeboy

what the hell????

wildlifeboy

Dublin west

MidlandsM

does the phone come free with the tree? lol

tommy2bad

wildlifeboy wrote: »

Hello, I am putting up a fence and I have chopped down most of a fairly established Ash tree. I have left most of it still in the ground and i am planning on building the fence up to it. anyway if anyone wants to take it away they are welcome to it. i have no idea if ash is worth anything and it will just be used for firewood other wise. ill post a pick up later. it is mutli stemmed if you can say that and there wasnt a main trunk. i reckon each stem is about 6 inchs diameter. also if anyone wants losts of ash branches they can have them.

Just on that point, ash will grow again from where you topped it and anywhare else it takes a fancy.
Putting a fence against it will mean that the fence will have a big ash behind it that will need topping again.
You might already know this and it's the plan but if not and you were just hopping to get a free suport for the fence ash is hard to kill.

wildlifeboy

I am going to get it as low to the ground as possible. the ash tree bases i mean and then drill round up (or something a bit stronger) into the base. Will this be enough? I am not going to be putting the fence adjacent to it if thats what you thought. Will an Ash base thats not fully dead send new shoots out? i never realised how easy Ash trees take if left unmanaged. they are the weeds of the tree world..near as bad as sycamore

tommy2bad

Yep, weeds exept for their use for hurls and firewood.
They will regrow from the stump no problem. I'm not sure if roundup is good enough to do a job on them, I think theirs a special stump killer for this situation. Years ago salt peter was the thing so something with a lot of potassium nitrate and drill holes and fill em up with the stuff.
Once dead ash stumps rot away quit quick year or two and you can as my father used to say "bate em out wit a hammer"

paddy147

Brushwood killer diluted with the right amount of water will kill off the stumps.

Drill a couple of 20mm holes a good 6-8 inches down into the stump and then pour in the brushwood killer.

Worked a treat for us in the past when we had to remove several trees for building work to commence.

If you dont kill off the stump then you will get whats called "watershoots" growing up and out from the stump and these will then start to grow into new branches and tree/trees.

wildlifeboy

pics

magicbastarder

tommy2bad wrote: »

Yep, weeds exept for their use for hurls and firewood.

they're a wonderful tree, with an uncertain future.

Supercell

I wouldn't worry about ash trees re-growing unfortunately

magicbastarder

i would.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenoscyphus_pseudoalbidus

CJhaughey

Supercell wrote: »

I wouldn't worry about ash trees re-growing unfortunately

Unfortunately its here already...

Oldtree wrote: »

Confirmed findings (Last Updated: 11 February 2013)

Location type/No. of confirmed findings of ash dieback (Chalara fraxinea)

Forestry Plantations 26
in Counties: Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Galway, Kildare, Kilkenny, Leitrim, Longford, Meath, Tipperary, Waterford

Horticultural Nurseries 14
Garden Centres 1
Private Garden 1
Farm landscaping 1
Roadside landscaping 3

no details as to where in the country the non plantation infected trees are???

from here:

http://www.agriculture.gov.ie/forestservice/ashdiebackchalara/

no press release on these figures???
is this all we get as the much promised new year report???

so based on available data this is now the map of the infected counties on the island of Ireland, with 71 confirmed infected sites: