Comments on: I learned about the thousand cankers disease of black walnut at our Guild meeting last night http://sandal-woodsblog.com/2010/02/10/i-learned-about-the-thousand-cankers-disease-of-black-walnut-at-our-guild-meeting-last-night/ Woodworking with passion - The woodworking blog and podcast of Al Navas Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:29:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Johnhttp://sandal-woodsblog.com/2010/02/10/i-learned-about-the-thousand-cankers-disease-of-black-walnut-at-our-guild-meeting-last-night/comment-page-1/#comment-3488 John Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:54:00 +0000 http://sandal-woodsblog.com/?p=6784#comment-3488 This problem of transporting pests state to state is something that everyone should be aware of. I owned a Woodmizer sawmill, and had a fellow bring out a couple of large logs of cherry for me to mill up for him. We don't have these trees out here in the western states. On questioning he told me he actually hauled it out here from the eastern states after it had been sitting beside a shed for "a few years". We were getting some nice wood until we got almost to the center of the log. That's when we hit a large hollow pocket crawling with termites. I made short work out of the rest of the log and when he left I found everything and anything bug killer related to throw around the mill. We don't have termites out here and I wasn't going to let any Eastern imports get started. With some forethought, we could at least make it harder for disease and tree pests to get around. American Chestnuts were wiped out because we made packing crates out of infected wood and shipped them all over the country via the railways. We have to learn from history or we will repeat it. This problem of transporting pests state to state is something that everyone should be aware of. I owned a Woodmizer sawmill, and had a fellow bring out a couple of large logs of cherry for me to mill up for him. We don’t have these trees out here in the western states. On questioning he told me he actually hauled it out here from the eastern states after it had been sitting beside a shed for “a few years”. We were getting some nice wood until we got almost to the center of the log. That’s when we hit a large hollow pocket crawling with termites. I made short work out of the rest of the log and when he left I found everything and anything bug killer related to throw around the mill. We don’t have termites out here and I wasn’t going to let any Eastern imports get started. With some forethought, we could at least make it harder for disease and tree pests to get around. American Chestnuts were wiped out because we made packing crates out of infected wood and shipped them all over the country via the railways. We have to learn from history or we will repeat it.

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