Show us your osage tree pics!
A path to Heaven?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/Osagetree/IMG_0684.jpg)
I have nothing to compare to that, Joe!
Here is the worlds largest in Virginia.
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p211/psychmonky/63637FB8-8B62-4A10-8C55-1664167B17C6-656-000000588987233F.jpg)
And here is one that was estimated at 400 years old that sandy toppled while destroying everything else.
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p211/psychmonky/3DFFC878-59F8-402B-AF70-19BB60F07541-656-0000005888C70479.jpg)
Osage tree I think you need a brother...... wow
Here is one we cut a section out of a couple years ago
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e369/STRINGSTRETCHER/osagetrees008.jpg)
Mine are on 65 acres in SE Ohio, but hain't got any pictures. Don't need ole Joe tracking them down :)
Hey cut that out! Your making me duel.
Show me a nice enough tree and I might pack up my chainsaw and head south.
Hoot
Drool! not duel.
(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/DSCN0289.jpg)
Turned into this
(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/DSCN6528.jpg)
The top section is still there. I'm planning on getting it when it warms up. Should be at least one more 7' section.
Wow Osage around here never grows that straight.
I was told that it grows here in SW Ontario, but I've never seen one. This far north, they must be small and scrubby. :(
Dave.
Not any near me. Have toga bit south. Scrub that is impressive!
All I need is a chainsaw, a uhaul and Roy's address :laughing:
No osage up here for me, and all the yew grows 300 miles away in the west side, or as we call it "liberal land", and the bunny humpers dont like ya cutting any trees.
I went to the west side last saturday, but could not get my brother to stop long enough to let me go find a nice yew tree, and of all the nerve, he said I could not tie it to his wifes
subaru :dunno:
Some people have all the luck, thanks for sharing the pics, they made me drool too!
Clint, that is such a cool picture every time I see it!
Clint, quit showen off:)LOL
Warning!!!! Sensory Overload!!!
Here's two forays from last year
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,31965.0/nowap.html
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php?topic=33972.0
That looks too much like work. My Bud in Ohio cuts it, splits it, hauls it to his house, then calls me and I go over and he helps me load it on the truck:) I love free Osage...
There is enough Osage on his 65 acres to last me the rest of my life and were gonna cut some every spring.
Roy,,, where exactly is this 65 acres? :goldtooth:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/Osagetree/Osage-Bench-300.jpg)
Already told ya Joe, in Ohio... :laughing:
Wish we had it around here like that......wow!
I have only seen two trees, each on private property and a big "no way" from the owners. Have to start planting seeds in northern NJ!!! Can only dream.
This was at a local 3d shoot a few years ago, please excuse my buddys compound. The course was in a creek bottom and osage trees were plentiful there, although not many of them were this straight. I'll try to dig up some better pics later today.
(http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee503/Jamey_Burkhart/3F03669B-D2C4-4CF9-ABC6-FD2575AA50F0-3705-000008F2CAA59E86.jpg)
I've had this one eyed out on my father's farm for years and I just haven't had the time to go cut it down. I've seen the same bark on some really snaky osage before so I hope it's the same underneath this one.
(http://i803.photobucket.com/albums/yy316/goosegossett14/e79f7192.jpg)
(http://i803.photobucket.com/albums/yy316/goosegossett14/3e75d870.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/Osagetree/2011%20Hunts/NewRiver2009003.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/Osagetree/2011%20Hunts/DSC_1173.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/Osagetree/Self%20Bows/IMG_0102.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/Osagetree/Self%20Bows/IMG_0108.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/Osagetree/Self%20Bows/IMG_0178.jpg)
Joe, you may be eligible for some sort of award for "most appropriate user name on tradgang." That stuff must be part of your soul.
Your ax looks like the tin mans ax on the wizard of oz
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/Osagetree/Self%20Bows/IMG_0174.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/Osagetree/Self%20Bows/IMG_0104.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/Osagetree/bucksawosage12.jpg)
If I only had a brain....
Largest Ohio Osage Tree, Cashocton, Ohio
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/Osagetree/osageorange03_16.jpg)
One of my favorites, from 2004:
(http://i1174.photobucket.com/albums/r607/jdscifres/100_1195.jpg)
(http://i1174.photobucket.com/albums/r607/jdscifres/100_1193.jpg)
We didn't cut that one but found a few more manageable ones. We had to carry them pretty far though.
(http://i1174.photobucket.com/albums/r607/jdscifres/100_1206.jpg)
My (then 6 year old son) James helped with the splitting chores.
(http://i1174.photobucket.com/albums/r607/jdscifres/2004wood07.jpg)
Thanks John,,, that is an awesome specimen!
This is the best I can do. This was a seedling given to me for a B-day present by a friend about 5 or 6 years ago. I know I'll never get to see it any near as big as the ones shown above but at least I can dream. d;^) We have very few osage trees around here. A couple I know of are right along a state road and the NCDOT keeps it pruned with their bush hog on a stick.
Anyway here is my favorite osage tree...
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/PatBNC/osagetreeJan2013002.jpg)
I can see a sapling bow in it right now Pat.
It has a sucker growing up from the roots so if this one gets a little bigger I may give that a shot Clint. I do have it staked and have trimmed the small branches from the trunk.
Pat...u win two awards with that....first is the "awe isn't that cute" award...and the second is the "please feel sorry for me and give me some osage" award :jumper:
Well..ya won me over...osage coming your way soon
Pat, I can bring you enough hedge apples to plant a forest of those things if you want.
Thanks Clint but I would rather plant hybrid chesnuts on my 25ac. I know where plenty of osage is and I don't have to cut and split it...ole buddy ole pal! d;^)
(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CLINT-HP/New%20bow%20stuff/SDC15322_zps0859f354.jpg)
(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CLINT-HP/New%20bow%20stuff/SDC15323_zpscc63da03.jpg)
(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CLINT-HP/New%20bow%20stuff/SDC15317_zpsfbf562c7.jpg)
(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CLINT-HP/New%20bow%20stuff/SDC15319_zps7b2c62fa.jpg)
All of these pics were within 50 yards of my back door. I think I was destined to become a bowyer.
The base of this tree is interesting. It comes out of the ground and is folded over for about 3' before it turns and goes up.
(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CLINT-HP/New%20bow%20stuff/SDC15320_zps9c020033.jpg)
Party at clints house.... :bigsmyl:
Yup, party at Clints.
You two make sure you swing by and bring Pearly :smileystooges:
10-4 little big buddy :goldtooth:
(http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g186/flatbow21/osage%20tree/10-26-2005-09.jpg)
WOW!
It's gotta be good mojo to have a stand built up in an old Osage!
I've killed a lot of deer from old osage trees.
Is everybody invited to the party, or do you have to have an actual invitation :biglaugh:
I'll hitchhike all the way there, so save some grub for me, may take a bit :laughing:
Ya need an invite Frosty, So There... :)
Clint whats we gonna drink fer beer?
Well fine be that way Roy, better be nice or I just might start my own list, so far only one possible name for it, but thats enough :bigsmyl:
You better al least drink one for me since I cant come ;)
Ah quit your pouting, your invited:)
Heres a few pics of some that I am waiting to cut when I absolutely cant find it anywhere else. Theyre nice and straight but man are they in a tangled up mess of a thicket.
(http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee503/Jamey_Burkhart/41F07EA6-7E9A-4115-9AB0-4FC8E13C15A2-4617-00000B66374ACB31.jpg)
(http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee503/Jamey_Burkhart/7B052550-597E-4F53-B6CB-BA2676BBC5E4-4617-00000B663F7C45DF.jpg)
(http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee503/Jamey_Burkhart/CC0AD3E9-16DC-4B07-9E45-28E947F64951-4617-00000B6643C1CD28.jpg)
This is cool! Osage dosen't grow around here naturally so it's nice to see what they look like.
A couple from my osage stand
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/Osagetree/Hunting%202011%20-%202012/Picture001.jpg) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/Osagetree/Hunting%202011%20-%202012/Picture002.jpg)
It makes a persons proud to see one of my creations in the hands of someone that appreciates it as much as I enjoyed making it for him. Thanks Joe!!!
Pat, it has been my go to bow for almost 3 years now. I made up my mind that I would hunt it until we score. Came real close last year on a nice buck and didn't bow hunt 1 day this year! Times have been a little rough and my work takes most of my time anymore. Plus I got's me two Grandchildren, I've lost most of my private land hunting to people moving away, selling it, splitting up of land or passing away. My WMA is 25 miles there and 25 back plus it gets hunted pretty hard.
Anyway, you're right. I like the bow very much!
Thanks Roy :bigsmyl:
Okie64,
Maybe a dumb question, but what are the green round looking things on the ground around your trees? Couldnt quit make them out, put to curious to not ask.
Thanks,
Joe,
Never had private land to hunt up here, and the edges of the city just keep moving out more all the time. Now its about the same as you, 20-25 each way to get somewhere to legally hunt.
Tons of deer in closer, but all the bunny huggers wont let anyone hunt them, all they do is take pics and complain when they hit em.
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.
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
(http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee503/Jamey_Burkhart/002-19.jpg)
Deer will eat them to.
The deer eat them here in PA also, usually after they have frozen and softened up.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/Osagetree/sandy-osage-druid-monument_zpsd70e6cd3.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/Osagetree/5-11c-1_zps229ddb27.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/Osagetree/c4d1ab_zps33dc97a9.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/Osagetree/osage-orange-at-idle-creek_zps4cdbe041.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/Osagetree/DSC_0007_zpsd1ea5397.jpg)
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.
Don't make a special trip Kelly. You'll probably be there sooner or later.
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.
(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CLINT-HP/New%20bow%20stuff/SDC15346.jpg)
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.
(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CLINT-HP/New%20bow%20stuff/SDC15347.jpg)
A property line
(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CLINT-HP/New%20bow%20stuff/SDC15348.jpg)
And a property corner marker
(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CLINT-HP/New%20bow%20stuff/SDC15349.jpg)
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:
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.
Joe, is that osage bansai tree real? That's awesome. I might have to try that if it is real.
:campfire:
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.
Really cool stuff......
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.
(http://i380.photobucket.com/albums/oo247/Buxndiverdux/photo_zps14a2aa99.jpg)
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.
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.
(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CLINT-HP/New%20bow%20stuff/SDC15275.jpg)
Heres one I came across on a creek bank the other day.
(http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee503/Jamey_Burkhart/02E1E097-B864-47CE-B338-DCB594CEB312-7627-000014DDBCACCF71.jpg)
Wow wish we had some Osage over here . Anybody know how long it takes to grow into something useable?
You lucky dogs. I live in Georgia and have never seen an Osage orange tree. I'm using hickory for my selfbows. I have plenty of hickory if someone wants to trade.
This was one of many trees in a long hedgerow near Valley Forge in PA. Straight bole for 30'. Hiking trail ram alongside and there were dozens of trees like this one. Kept finding hedge apples and it took me a minute to realize these giants were Osage. I'm 6'4".
(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d83/skendrot/c9a5f69a-16f9-4155-bae3-683737e18da1.jpg) (http://s33.photobucket.com/user/skendrot/media/c9a5f69a-16f9-4155-bae3-683737e18da1.jpg.html)
i was hoping to see a post from minnesota, no luck unless i missed it. I have yet to see an osage tree in minnesota.
An old friend has a hug osage tree growing on his property. It's the only one I can recall seeing in NY. Must have been planted years ago on that old farm. The house there had been one of the first ones built in the area. It had a cupaloon the top of the house. Iv' been told the oldest houses had these for watching out for the Iroquios. :dunno:
Steve we have some work to do............
It's kinda in a public place. Bring a hand saw and head lamp. We're gonna hafta go dark on this one. Keep it on the low down! In and out, nothin but hand signals.