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Ash trees are off limits!

Absolutely! Everywhere I look around my place they are dead. I use a climber most days and Ash trees were always good for me but I wont get in one now. They look healthy a lot of times but if you inspect the bark down low you can see it's lifted away from the trunk. Plus the upper limbs are visibly dead. The next day of high winds I will have a bunch leaning or fallen.
 
I have killed three bucks out of this tree but no more. I quit climbing it a few years ago. There was a decent tree below it to climb but was concerned with it falling on it. It fell some time between last season and this season.

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Ash trees are dropping all over my place. A few big old ones still standing dead. I get the willies every time I pass by one, especially on windy days!
 
Haven't watched the video yet. But the Emerald Ash Borer has really hurt the ash tree population. Transportation of ash logs has restrictions even. Or did at one time
 
DMD said:
Many years ago I used to get on a forum called Eders. Guy on there who's handle was JB I think, worked all year towards a hunting trip in Nebraska. Stupid guide put him in a dead tree before daylight, tree fell with JB in it. He got all busted up, but survived. Be careful.
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Pretty sure he used to post on realtree as well, I remember that.

I have several that I need to drop at some point. The way the wind is out there right now, may have some fall on their own.
 
There's a couple stands about 20 yards off one of my property lines on a neighbor. These dummies are in the middle of tons of ash trees and 1 stand is actually on one. Im talking big ash trees some snapped off. On average i hear 1 or more break and fall a week. Guess they don't have enough sense to tell its dangerous. I don't even walk up that side of my property.
 
ZachMarkus said:
I turkey hunt a farm in Lewisburg that has hundreds of ash trees on it, if there's one that's not dead on the place I don't know about it.
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There's a systemic treatment that can be done on them, and it lasts for several years.
Idk why more people don't treat them.
 
I have a whole bunch on my property behind my house. The stand overlooking my food plot had a huge ash tree pretty close to it. I honestly didn't pay any attention to it when placing my stand. But sitting in the stand and looking around last year I noticed it was leaning and had some twist to it. Made me really nervous and knew it was coming down at some point. One afternoon in Sept it was windy and hot so I opted to watch football and not hunt, although I really wanted to. I rode the sxs back there the next day and sure enough that ash trees was on the ground. Didn't hit my stand but took out a bunch of limbs in the tree my stand is in.

Lost another ash tree along my creek bank back in the winter. Looked perfectly healthy and alive.

Only have one that is for sure dead that I can see. It's another huge one I plan to find down at anytime.

Ash trees make me nervous and it seems like every time I look I find one I haven't seen before. All are alive besides the one I mentioned above. But they still make me nervous.
 

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