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  1. Al Smith

    I really hate this

    Most of the time those "wood pirates " only go for easy pickings . I don't if this applies to every state but I do know in Ohio pirating a marketable prime hardwood can carry a fee of up to a couple thousand a tree payable to the land owner .
  2. Al Smith

    I really hate this

    I looked it up and this what I found . Eastern shagbark can grow to a tad over a hundred feet and around 3 feet in diameter about 200 years which would be about right .Ash a little longer ,maybe 250 years and about as large . The eastern giants,the mighty white oak can get huge and have been...
  3. Al Smith

    I really hate this

    I think they just get old and die V . The ash must have croaked a while ago but it wasn't EAB that did it in . Fact is I never paid much attention because I couldn't seen the top because it was hidden from view by a large sugar maple growing nearly codominent . Tom looked at it last night and...
  4. Al Smith

    I really hate this

    Must be.The oak is a 3 and a half footer .The ash and shag are about 30 inchs and old indeed . Damned fine lumber I suppose and some fire wood .I'd much rather have the trees but it's not to be .:(
  5. Al Smith

    I really hate this

    Nothing really .I'm at least 30 feet away from the large shagbark with the drive way and not even close in the woods with the ash and white oak . However any trees that large are old and most likely towards the end of their life spans I suppose .I just hate to lose them on my watch . We're...
  6. Al Smith

    I really hate this

    For reasons unknown to me I'm slowly loosing my big trees .This 100 plus shag bark is on it's last legs plus an over hundred white oak plus a white ash . Nice lumber but I'd just as soon have the trees .:whine:
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