How many osage trees is this!?

[Tedd]

I noticed this row of trees years ago and actually got permission to cut one of them down once. They are the straightest and tallest osage trees I ever heard of. The one I cut had 2 perfect 6' logs about 30" across. I sold enough staves to pay for a hunting trip.
 Anyhow we picked up a bunch of hedge balls tonight. They usually just get run over on the road. We filled a garbage can and plan to go back and fill another. We need a couple hundred yards of fence row re-etablished on our property. This is a start. There has  to be a couple hundred seeds in ea ball right?
Tedd

[Possum Head]

Sounds like a great plan to me Tedd. They don’t grow here. Sure wish we had them. Best wishes on your planting and show us a pic in a few years. It will be rewarding watching them grow.

[Terry Green]

We have a road here in Tam which out do not travel down this time of year..... There were probably 50 trees along this road that is only a mile long...... Maybe half are left now but they are huge.

Windshield Busters n Dent Creators!!!

[HOOSIERGRIZZ]

My farm has tons of mature osage (in Indiana).  It's an old homestead
from the mid 1800's sometime.  I think the osage plantings were from the time before barbed wire was invented.  We bought an adjoining ag field with the farm which is now my hunting spot.  I did the same thing you plan to do to create border cover around the wide-open field.  The best way I've found is just to pitch them out along the line you want the trees in the fall.  They need to sit wet and cold through the winter to break up the orange, which will prep the seeds to be ready to grown in the spring.  They grow in tough conditions (weed and brush blocking the sun seems to be my biggest obstacle).  Once they get started they are tough to kill. 

Good luck with it.  I'm not a bowyer but I might have to look into the feasibility of harvesting some staves.

[Wudstix]

Good to hear about how they germinate and grow.

[Crooked Stic]

Steve where abouts in Indiana are you? If you cut the Osage seal the ends as soon as it hits the ground. Then if you got any good straight logs give me a holler. In Princeton IN.

[Eric Krewson]

Back before barb wire they  would make a slurry of ground osage apples, run a turning plow in a line where they wanted the osage fence, pour the slurry in the furrow and cover it up.

It is interesting to read the history of osage fence rows.

[Roy from Pa]

That garbage can is many many osage trees:)