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Re: Osage Tree's
« Reply #60 on: January 27, 2013, 02:11:00 PM »
Joe, I totally understand. In the last 3 years, except for my trip to Colorado, I have hunter one day, two sits. I seen way more deer while driving to work than I have sitting in the woods.
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Re: Osage Tree's
« Reply #61 on: January 27, 2013, 03:31:00 PM »
Frosty, Im guessin you dont have many osage trees where youre at. Those are horseapples or some people call em hedgeapples, they grow on the female osage orange trees. Squirrels are the only thing that Ive ever seen eat them.  Around here if you say osage orange tree most people wont know what you're talkin about but if you say horseapple tree they know exactly what you're referring to. Heres a pic of em on the tree
 

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Re: Osage Tree's
« Reply #62 on: January 27, 2013, 04:45:00 PM »
Deer will eat them to.
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« Reply #63 on: January 27, 2013, 06:10:00 PM »
The deer eat them here in PA also, usually after they have frozen and softened up.

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Re: Osage Tree's
« Reply #64 on: February 03, 2013, 05:36:00 PM »
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« Reply #65 on: February 03, 2013, 06:20:00 PM »
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Re: Osage Tree's
« Reply #66 on: February 03, 2013, 06:21:00 PM »
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Re: Osage Tree's
« Reply #67 on: February 03, 2013, 06:23:00 PM »


 
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Re: Osage Tree's
« Reply #68 on: February 03, 2013, 07:23:00 PM »
I will try and get some pics in the tomorrow. I dont know though I have to travel so far to get pics of it.

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Re: Osage Tree's
« Reply #69 on: February 04, 2013, 04:40:00 AM »
Don't make a special trip Kelly. You'll probably be there sooner or later.
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Re: Osage Tree's
« Reply #70 on: February 04, 2013, 06:58:00 PM »
This is probably my favorite piece of osage on my place.  It looks like a tortured old soul.  I thought about cutting it and using it to hold bows for pictures but I just can't bring myself to do it.

 

Right behind it is a fallen osage with rabbit and other critter tracks going up it.  I didn't know rabbits would go up a tree like that.  He went up several leaning trees in the area.

 

A property line

 

And a property corner marker

 
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Re: Osage Tree's
« Reply #71 on: February 04, 2013, 07:53:00 PM »
wow, what an awesome tree -that last pic.
tell me you have to have looked at the left trunk, and seen all the bows in it!!!!
you guys are truly spoilt- being able to pick and choose your osage!!- lucky you!!  :thumbsup:

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« Reply #72 on: February 04, 2013, 09:00:00 PM »
There are less than 109 bows in that left trunk.  I only like to cut trees that have fallen over.  That happens to a lot of the big trees on my place.
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Re: Osage Tree's
« Reply #73 on: February 04, 2013, 10:11:00 PM »
Joe, is that osage bansai tree real?  That's awesome.  I might have to try that if it is real.
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Re: Osage Tree's
« Reply #74 on: February 05, 2013, 09:50:00 AM »
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« Reply #75 on: February 05, 2013, 04:52:00 PM »
Yep,,, some lady on a bansai tree web site had grown it and was talking about how well it had leafed out. I cobbed her pic to share on our site!

Scrub-buster might be spoiled but I gotta beg steal or borrow my osage cut'ns.
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Re: Osage Tree's
« Reply #76 on: February 06, 2013, 03:44:00 PM »
Really cool stuff......
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Re: Osage Tree's
« Reply #77 on: February 11, 2013, 08:24:00 AM »
Is there any bow wood in this one? I can't see a straight section any longer than about 50" in any limb. This is the only Osage Tree I've ever seen here. I'm sure there is more, but they are very rare in these parts.
 
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Re: Osage Tree's
« Reply #78 on: February 11, 2013, 01:05:00 PM »
That's a leaner!  :scared:  Anything but the trunk of that tree is in my opinion, fire wood.
Too many wind checks in that old tree grown out in the open. I bet there is some nice character bows in that old trunk.
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Re: Osage Tree's
« Reply #79 on: February 11, 2013, 02:58:00 PM »
That tree is old. There is fence wire embedded and a treated 4x4 stuck up in there. I can't believe they didn't take it down when the widened the road.
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