Handles

[woody paul]

With ash die back here are the price of ash handles going to rocket, or not be available at all.

[Gnarlyoak]

I'd say you'll be alright for ash handles for a while yet, ALL the ash trees are not going to disappear overnight! If chalara takes hold it will be steady decline of the tree stock over a number of years, so with a steady supply of timber coming on stream I can't imagaine the price will go up either, more likely to go down.

 

Once the timber is down, it can be treated with fungicide, the brash because of its volume will probably need to be burned close to felling site. But that all depends on what control measures DEFRA put in place once they work out how best to tackle the situation.