Setup and Initial Milling of Ash Log

all right now we're ready to hit the mill guys and if you see right here you can see little worm marks all in this wood that is from the ash borer beetle this is our logox three-in-one forestry multi-tool and we're gonna be rolling it up on the log deck here in just a minute and let the log loaders pick this log up this is a big boy i'm gonna say it's probably around 22 to 24 inches around big beautiful tree i had to cut this tree it was standing dead and was about to fall into the creek and i knew it had the ash borer beetle in it so once we get into this slice into this a little bit i'll show you underneath the bark what this beetle does is it tunnels all up underneath the bark and kills the tree's ability to feed and water itself through the bark so it's interesting a lot of trees if you just go around and cut a ring around the bark they'll die because that's where the nutrients are fed up through the tree to the new growth which is from the outside rings pretty cool this tree is probably 80 or 90 years old awesome let's roll her up on the mill and get busy [Music] so this is what it looks like you can see these little black specks in here there are little worm holes little black specks all in here but this lumber looks absolutely gorgeous i've got a little