Well fella's does anyone hade tips/ pics to id osage when I see it??? I know there is a few here but not many and I wanna get a stick!!!
Thanks
from what ive seen the smaller branches have thorns, and the trees bear a fruit that is wrinkly and looks kinda like a green brain.lol other than that its orange just under the bark and of course the wood is honey yellow
Ok I can look for this but I expect some funny looks if I give this type of discription to my buddies
(http://i843.photobucket.com/albums/zz359/shm5/osageyoung.jpg)
(http://i843.photobucket.com/albums/zz359/shm5/osagetree.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/Osagetree/Self%20Bows/IMG_0102.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/Osagetree/Self%20Bows/IMG_0107.jpg)
Thorny on the outside... Yellow on the inside...
;)
Look for the toughest, twisted, knotty, gnarly tree in the woods and it will probably be osage. Oh yeah, the roots are orange too.
Joe, do you take kerosene or something with you to clean/lube that blade as you go? (I hope) Rusty gave that tip years back for when he used to hand cut suckers.
The leaves look a lot like a Bradford pear, the ornamental tree you see in a lot of yards.
They almost always have thorns on the smaller limbs and branches that look like miniature turkey spurs. Some osage trees don't have thorns, not many but a few.
There are male and female trees so they don't always have fruit. Even the females skip a year of bearing fruit quite often.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v181/ekrewson/OsageOrangefruit.jpg)
Eric
That looks like what I know as a Horse Apple tree.
Dose any one else know it by that??
If that is osage then I need to go cut bown some trees.
:)
Cobbow
Yep, horse apple, hedge apple, hedge, bodock and osage, all one and the same.
QuoteOriginally posted by Tom Leemans:
Joe, do you take kerosene or something with you to clean/lube that blade as you go? (I hope) Rusty gave that tip years back for when he used to hand cut suckers.
Yes I normaly do and that is a good tip for anyone to remember! Just wish I had when I went to cut that one. I actually carried that log out whole! It liked to killed me!