@john-giles Wow--Chestnut Blight, Dutch Elm, Emerald Ash Borer, gypsy moth...our Appalachian forests are really taking a beating.?ÿ Hard to imagine the hillsides being covered in Chestnut blossoms as they once were.
@frozennorth I can only imagine the return of the american Chestnut. That was the 'goto' wood for many things because of how durable and strong it was. I run across an old log cabin or barn made out of American Chestnut once in a while. It is told to me by the land owner and I doubt they are making it up. They were used for fence posts too. Now Locust is the preferred but I don't think they last as long as the Chestnut did. And you could eat the fruit! Man, I wish I could see what the forests looked like back in the day.
A few years back we had mysterious floating purple or lavender boxes hanging out of trees across our area.?ÿ It turned out to be part of a massive study trapping emerald ash borers to determine the level of infestation, if any.?ÿ I felt sorry for the guy putting them up, evaluating them and eventually taking them back down.?ÿ He had a small pickup and a step ladder to balance on in the bed of the truck.?ÿ Plenty of what I assumed to be fishing line to keep the boxes/traps aloft.?ÿ He worked alone, so one wrong move and .....................................................
@holy-cow The Ash borer devastated West Virginia Ash. My dad (step-dad) had cleared his 5 Acres and kept mostly one type of tree he thought to be Hickory. I told him years and years ago that he actually kept Ash. Well you can guess what happened. The wood, though burnable, has zero coals or anything. Burns fast and instant ashes. Crap to heat with but man, did we have a lot of it. It also doesn't season well. It has its qualities, I know. But dead Ash is mostly useless.
Ash trees got wiped out here also, but good news, the American Chestnut is on a very slow recovery.?ÿ There have been breeding efforts (insert knothole joke here) using different methods.?ÿ I have planted several 15/16 American Chestnut and 1/16 blight resistant Chinese Chestnut.?ÿ A few pure trees were unaffected by the blight and those nuts have been planted, most died eventually but at maturity, the good ones were planted and so on, so that now there is about an 80% success rate at this stage with blight resistant pure chestnuts.?ÿ It will be a long time before they are called for as property corners but in a couple hundred years, they may make a comeback.
Oak or pine
The two most pollen prone species in the world! ?????ÿ
@flga-2-2?ÿ
Around these parts; everything will be covered with yellow dust, from Doug Fir pollen...
John,
Who are you addressing your OP to? Who do you want to correct this? Wouldn't that be up to you?
I think he is expressing frustration with those who are sloppy with corner reports.?ÿ It's no different from finding a 5/8" bar but reporting it to be a 1/2" iron bar.?ÿ Then the next half dozen surveyors find it from your report also report it as being a 1/2" iron bar when it has been a 5/8" iron bar the entire time.?ÿ Too many surveyors are afraid to report anything different.
I'm glad I don't have those trees to worry about. Oak? There are different kinds of oak trees??ÿ
Yellow pine or pine is the most noted tree for bearing trees here.?ÿ
Yellow pine isn't really a type but I know what they mean, and pine can mean almost anything, they use that a lot, later on they might use fir as a mention, sometimes spruce and very rarely an aspen.?ÿ
Not many ever used boxelder or cottonwood, cottonwood is pointless anyway, they die so quickly.?ÿ
And that's it as far as I've ever seen.?ÿ
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Interesting comment on cottonwood trees.?ÿ They are among the oldest surviving trees around here.?ÿ There are some over 160 years old, pre-dating the government survey.
I was going to say the same thing:
The Cotton Woods around these parts are relentless; cut them down and the roots sprout new growth; cut the trunk into pieces and the pieces start sprouting branches...
I think he is expressing frustration with those who are sloppy with corner reports.?ÿ It's no different from finding a 5/8" bar but reporting it to be a 1/2" iron bar.?ÿ Then the next half dozen surveyors find it from your report also report it as being a 1/2" iron bar when it has been a 5/8" iron bar the entire time.?ÿ Too many surveyors are afraid to report anything different.
Previous surveyors probably don't know and don't want to rock the boat. ?????ÿ
Recently, we were using corner reports from a nearby firm.?ÿ They had been there numerous times and had reported all references to be identical since about 1995.?ÿ The references that were nails in fence posts were all about 0.2 feet different based on which way they had leaned over the years.?ÿ They were good enough to help us find the corner, but had never been checked by the other firm.?ÿ This is sloppy work practice.?ÿ Especially when one of the references listed on a recent corner report is to a power pole that was replaced several years ago and the new one is about two feet from where the old one was.
@dougie?ÿ
Typical life span of a cottonwood tree is 70 years, so I've read. They hollow out and tip over in our high winds. More people regret planting cottonwood trees than any other in urban areas here.
Plus all that cotton. That's our plains cottonwood, I suppose there are different types.?ÿ
Life expectancy of hybrid cottonwoods is thirty years, lots of those were regretfully planted.?ÿ
