Osage

[Bow-cephus]

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

[walkabout]

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

[Bow-cephus]

Ok I can look for this but I expect some funny looks if I give this type of discription to my buddies

[shamus]

 

[Osagetree]

[Paul/KS]

Thorny on the outside... Yellow on the inside...
 

[scrub-buster]

Look for the toughest, twisted, knotty, gnarly tree in the woods and it will probably be osage.  Oh yeah, the roots are orange too.

[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.

[Eric Krewson]

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.

[cobbow]

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

[Eric Krewson]

Yep, horse apple, hedge apple, hedge, bodock and osage, all one and the same.

[Osagetree]

Originally 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!