The Hedge is here

[Uranus79]

Bowyers heaven

By the way, with all the Osage cutting, are there enough trees regrowing?

Regards, Uranus

[HedgeHunter]

Plenty trees growing. This tree was blown over. Have two more blow downs to clean up. When Osage gets really old they have a tendency to blow over with rain soaked ground and heavy winds.

If you want wood in the furure you need to put some up every year. Should get 50 sets of matched billets. I like making billet bows. Matching clean wood from same section of tree. Makes a great bow.

HH~

[schnabelkanne]

Hi,
I envy you of your big Osage trees, my Osage seedlings are now 3 years old and 15“ in hight and in 30 years they are ready for harvest.
Greetings from Vienna
Thomas

[Uranus79]

After getting to know that Osage would survive central german winters and is not that specific in demands to its environment we bought six saplings 50-60cm (20-30") in size and will plant them in early spring at our archery club range. Hopefully contributing in keeping the species alive
Regards, Uranus

[HedgeHunter]

will grow well. Keep the trees from having the center stem from damage. Prune the lower branchers off so it does not yoke out or get crowned. They need good open light and not to be crowded by other trees to grow well and have large ring growth. Very sustainable trees for growing bow wood.

HH~

[Uranus79]

Hi HedgeHunter, thanks for your advice. I have a little trouble understanding your second sentence. Do you mean to avoid damage of the center stem? I mean there ist one "from" too much in the sentence for me but I am no native speaker
Maybe we can cut the lower branches off when they have leaves and use them as cuttings to have more plants?

Thanks and greetings, Uranus

[fatz]

Er meint, man soll aufpassen, das der Stamm keine Beschaedingungen kriegt

[HedgeHunter]

Yes, the center stem, which will be the trunk or main tree. You want it to reach for the sky. Not branch out.

HH~

[HedgeHunter]

Good time of year for cutting bow wood. Had a very large Osage that was leaning on ground. Trunk log was 30"x80". Will yeild 20-25 high quality staves or more.

HH~

[Bowster]

Oh, very nice, but I´m just getting a "bit" envious

[Uranus79]

Too bad that it is so expensive to send such large things eastwards over the Atlantic

[HedgeHunter]

I would just drive to Hungry. Talk to a logger and buy some Yellow wood. Thats like driving from my house to other side of my state. Throw a load of Osage in your pickup truck and bring it home to Germany.

I bring wood from all over home, over 1000 US miles. No big deal.

HH~

[Haitha]

Been there, done that.

Still quite the effort. Plus - you have no idea about our fuel prices

[HedgeHunter]

That sucks. We drill our oil here and Frack it out the ground, its cheap . Oil is same price the world over. Must be they are taxing it to much. I guess you could have a guy in Ungar to have it shipped in bulk on transport then. I mean Germany ships cars and trucks all over world so those truck carriers come home from Ungar empty right. Get a guy to throw a bunch of nice wood on one for you. Meet in Stuttgart and pick it up. Always a way.

I get some pics for you. going to go peel bark and sapwood. Then, split some nice matching billets and run it to the barn for storage.

HH~

[HedgeHunter]

Lots of staves. Put up maybe 25-30 of them. The big one's were split into two staves. Have one very large one that will be a hole in the bow stave that needs to be thinned down with the band saw. So that's a done deal for me for 2022. I did put some Eastern Hop Hornbeam sapling staves in skinning shed. I may go cut a few small diameter Osage limbs for bows here soon for a guy. Thats about it for me. Heading out to go Surfing for a month in Pacific.


HH~