Elm dying

[home of wood]

Yep chainsaw at the ready

[hedgesparrow]

did not know you had to report any elm with ded have a couple which i need to take down as are now dead. but wood is full of it and not my wood.

[david wood]

always found with a dead elm from ded if you can safetly leave standing dead for a year first it makes incredible firewood, lovely and dry and splits good. can be hard as hell to split once seasoned a while but worth it.

 

tried once splitting freshly dead green logs and was horrible stringy stuff didnt split nice at all but a lot less effort on splitter.

[Gary Prentice]

Don't forget that Brighton in Sussex is one of the few places in Britain with mature oaks. So they take it very seriously. Really enjoyed a trip to Brighton last year seeing how elms used to be in my childhood.

 

Does DED effect Oaks too

[Stubby]

Does DED effect Oaks too

 

No.That would be D.O.D.

[kev7937]

Is DED still notifiable?, I've never reported one, just assumed that the genie was already out the bottle???

 

Think its Brighton and surrounding areas you have to report to the council to help protect the mature stock.

[treedom]

Last I heard was that Brighton had reduced its funding re ded. Not doing surrounding areas anymore and is left to voluntary work for that. But that was a while ago. Someone may know more than me though!

[hedgesparrow]

always found with a dead elm from ded if you can safetly leave standing dead for a year first it makes incredible firewood, lovely and dry and splits good. can be hard as hell to split once seasoned a while but worth it.

 

tried once splitting freshly dead green logs and was horrible stringy stuff didnt split nice at all but a lot less effort on splitter.

 

has to be the best firewood burns brill i try when doing logs to not put to much in but mix with other wood as do not get a lot. so keep it back for my fire. if i could get in a wood there is a lot down keep me going for years.

such a nice tree that it has to get this disease. still have some healty ones doing ok at mo. keep away dutch beetle.

[woodyguy]

Whoops. I'm sure their oaks are lovely too, but the elms near the Brighton Pavilion were stunning

[fergusonforestry]

If it is, coppice it, it'll grow back, and those beetles can't infect it then

 

 

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we quite often have to cut coppiced elms that get infected again, spend almost 6 months of the year removing diseased elms during the beetles dormant period , hundreds every year!