The place I live on has been in our family for over 100 years now. There is a pretty big ash tree that's on the back side of the place that is pretty big for this area. In my lifetime it has been struck by lightning 4 times. The last one 2 years ago put a hurtin' on it as it blew BIG shards well over 100 yards from the base. One of the main shoots didn't leaf this year and it looks like it won't be long. I won't cut till it's all dead but may have to limb some of the dead to make sure it doesn't hit my furnace house. Measures 154 inches 5 ft up so that's just over 4 foot in diameter. With the ash bore coming the hillside is going to have a lot of firewood as it's mainly ash and locust. At least it is close I guess if there is a brightside to it.
I know this may not be big to some but ash trees this size around here are pretty uncommon. I was hoping it would come out of it but it's not looking good.
This is me next to it. I'm 6'6" 220 to give some scale to it.
Here you can see the dead shoot
Finished moving the wood to fill the boiler shed today. It's 20'X20' with about 10 cord in there.
I know this may not be big to some but ash trees this size around here are pretty uncommon. I was hoping it would come out of it but it's not looking good.
This is me next to it. I'm 6'6" 220 to give some scale to it.
Here you can see the dead shoot
Finished moving the wood to fill the boiler shed today. It's 20'X20' with about 10 cord in there.
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