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Title: NAME THAT TREE
Post by: 1oldbowguy on March 09, 2011, 05:07:00 PM

Ok, where is what we have, or I have. :help: Can you name this tree, or what was a tree. :confused: The log 9' long and 9"'s at the base. Very heavy. I sealed the ends about 20 minutes ago. Tell me what you think. :thumbsup:

(http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff441/oldbowguy/Tree/TREE002.jpg)

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Post by: PEARL DRUMS on March 09, 2011, 05:15:00 PM

Looks like the elusive Invisible tree to me oldbow!

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Post by: 1oldbowguy on March 09, 2011, 05:17:00 PM

Dang Pearl, got your glasses on :confused: , my bad, here it is. :bigsmyl:

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Post by: DVSHUNTER on March 09, 2011, 05:23:00 PM

Don't know, but it sure looks cool.

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Post by: DVSHUNTER on March 09, 2011, 05:24:00 PM

Don't know, but it sure looks cool.

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Post by: PEARL DRUMS on March 09, 2011, 05:25:00 PM

Yellow like hedge and bumpy like................? You got me.

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Post by: Dan Landis on March 09, 2011, 05:36:00 PM

I'm gonna guess Hackberry, what I cut in my area has warts on the bark like that only not as big....Dan

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Post by: rover brewer on March 09, 2011, 05:37:00 PM

bumpy osagehickoak

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Post by: SEMO_HUNTER on March 09, 2011, 05:57:00 PM

Buckeye? Chestnut? I've seen it before cause we have some around the river here where I live, but I can't remember what the name of it is?

I'm guessing Buckeye.

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Post by: Pat B on March 09, 2011, 06:00:00 PM

It's called HerculesClub (Zantboxylum clava-herculis)The bark and foliage have a numbing effect and was used as a toothache remedy.

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Post by: 1oldbowguy on March 09, 2011, 06:08:00 PM

Pat nailed it, sometimes called Prickly Ash, should make a good bow, I think, Pat what do you think?

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Post by: BHTGdogs on March 09, 2011, 07:11:00 PM

wow that is a pretty cool log. Is the wood its self knotty or is that just the way the bark is.

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Post by: Pat B on March 09, 2011, 07:14:00 PM

I've never tried it but I would. See how well it splits and how heavy it is after it dries a bit.

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Post by: 1oldbowguy on March 09, 2011, 07:59:00 PM

That is a for sure my friend and I will let you know how it acts.

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Post by: Don Stokes on March 10, 2011, 08:06:00 AM

That's the biggest Hercules club ("toothache tree") that I've ever seen!

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Post by: b.glass on March 10, 2011, 10:15:00 AM

I've never seen or heard of it before. Very cool! Will be interesting to see how it works.

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Post by: Blue EagleBum on March 11, 2011, 11:18:00 PM

If it don't work for a bow, just whittle a handle on it and club'em from your treestand.
:knothead: :biglaugh: :deadhorse:

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Post by: Knawbone on March 11, 2011, 11:27:00 PM

I thought it was a date barring uccaliptus antleg, damn wrong again! :banghead:

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Post by: fujimo on March 12, 2011, 12:58:00 AM

yup, we call them "knob thorns" in south africa- cut one of the knobs off and bite into it on the sore tooth- we had a huge one in our yard as a kid- probably 18" at the base but was kinda laying down- so had a long sweeping trunk maybe 20' long- good midsized tree.
great haven for birds.
i dont know where they are indigenous to- but there were heaps of them on the east coast of s.a.
regards
wayne

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