What is your long term Ash die back plan?

vantage

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Pembs
Not sure. We don’t have many trees on the farm apart from ash, it grows really quickly here. Will cut affected trees down, hope some have resistance and then see. Beech grows ok here but slowly I presume.
 

mo!

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
York
Not sure. We don’t have many trees on the farm apart from ash, it grows really quickly here. Will cut affected trees down, hope some have resistance and then see. Beech grows ok here but slowly I presume.
How will you know which ones are resistant if you cut them down?
 

DanniAgro

Member
There's loads on my farm, so any treatment, even if there was one, would be far too expensive and difficult to do. Who's got the time?
 

milkloss

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
We had a disease In a patch of wood so got the forestry man out and he took a sample. It was some kind of Protozoa (? not sure Now) that moves around with water. Says to me not to replant with the same species. I responded that it's got chestnut, ash, birch, hornbeam....... done a good job on all sorts so he says to just leave it and see what grows back. Thistles, bramb,es and sh1t so far but it looks like some birch might be having a go
 

penntor

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
sw devon
Have several ash trees here with it to varying degrees. Last year I thought I would have loads of dead trees this year but they look no worse, some might even be a bit more leafy this year. Plan is not to cut anything down until dead, would hate to cut down the only resistant tree or any that might recover.
 

David.

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
J11 M40
Had load of roadside ash trees with dead bits in, by happy coincidence the main road was shut from Aug 'till December due to a bridge failure, and so we seized the opportunity of a lifetime and had a tree shear in and cut the lot off at the crowns.
Was a few comments on local Faceache apparently, but heard nowt from anyone that mattered.
 

Jackov Altraids

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Devon
Have several ash trees here with it to varying degrees. Last year I thought I would have loads of dead trees this year but they look no worse, some might even be a bit more leafy this year. Plan is not to cut anything down until dead, would hate to cut down the only resistant tree or any that might recover.

This is how I feel.
The trouble is, the only specimens that seem to be unaffected are growing in the gutters, cracks in the yard and in derelict buildings!
 

ImLost

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Not sure
My worry is that people will be leaving them all because they still look OK on the outside, when inside and at the roots they are rotten as hell and in the first big wind that turns up, down they come, potentially killing someone. If they are already infected, is it not safest to take them down, and if anything it might reduce the spread, although it's likely too late now.
I'm no expert so would like to hear others opinions.
 

Mur Huwcun

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
North West Wales
Got 5 here now by the house, tree officer is happy for them to be felled, NRW not interested if they’re in a Garden so just need a tree surgeon to drop them in the Autum.
 

texelburger

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Herefordshire
We have a wood of 95 plus % ash and a forestry advisory company have told me to fall the lot.They said the die back was just starting and the whole lot will,inevitably,get it.There is a grant to replant with broad leafed trees and conifers afterwards, apparently.
 

Bogweevil

Member
My worry is that people will be leaving them all because they still look OK on the outside, when inside and at the roots they are rotten as hell and in the first big wind that turns up, down they come, potentially killing someone. If they are already infected, is it not safest to take them down, and if anything it might reduce the spread, although it's likely too late now.
I'm no expert so would like to hear others opinions.

Ash dieback won't lead to increase in internal rots, so spare ones with good foliage, fell those with dieback.
 

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