Choose Treatment or Removal Strategy

one. Will they infect any other trees at this time? No. But there is concerns once they run out of a food source once they kill all the ash trees, that they could move to a different food source. More. Yep. Like what happened with like twoine chestnut war that killed all the chestnut trees. uh they started infecting our n or they start feeding on our native oak trees afterwards. Another question we get a lot of is what happens if I don't treat my ashtree and just let it die? Can I just cut it down? Um and the answer is yeah, you cannot treat your asht tree. You can let it die and cut it down. But the issue with doing that is these trees are very dangerous to remove. Uh at our company, we actually have a policy that we we won't let our guys climb dead ash trees because they're basically stripped of all their water and they become very brittle and they break unexpectedly. So if we're removing dead ash trees at Prot, we only do it with the assist of an aerial lift or a crane. And even when we're doing a crane removal, we don't let the climbers climb on the trees. Um so it's better to remove them preventatively if you're if you're not going to treat them. Preventative removal is better. It's cheaper. It's easier. It's more efficient to So, you have you have two options. Treat them or just cut it. If you're not treating it, just cut your tree. Cut it down and do it before it dies. Yeah. Because it's going to go no matter what, it's going to go. Correct. Dang. All right. What else should we know about these things? Um, on average, you can treat these trees for about 25 to 30 years before it outweighs the cost of the removal. Um, the reason these trees haven't been cut down yet is this is just assumptious. Probably this building can't afford it. I mean, it's probably 10, $20,000 to cut all these trees down and grind the stumps and then they want to replace where if they would have been more proactive and taken a preventative treatment approach. Um, they'd be much less expensive. They'd have a small price every 2 years to keep them alive and healthy and then they can continue to enjoy them. the shade that they provide, the water retention, you know, the grass is all brown and dying here now because it's not being shaded. So, the lawn guys probably aren't super happy about it. It's just it's a lose-lose for everybody. All right. But it's my understanding,