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How did bowyers harvest so much yew?

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JW_Halverson:

--- Quote from: poplar600 on December 14, 2015, 06:55:24 pm ---Please may you post pictures of the yew? Is he the German guy?

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forget the photos, ask for the GPS coordinates!

WillS:
Yeah its Michael.  You'd have to ask him for the pics, but it'll only depress you ;)

poplar600:
I hope he makes good use of it all. Better than being turned into knife handles! A bow he posted was as clean as I've ever seen.

Don't mind a few good pins though  ;)

AndrewS:
@poplar600

you can't compare the flora of today with the flora of the middle ages....
The place of the "Ibengarten" was one example, where you can remind what was done in former times....
The fleet of the british empire was build of wood and I'm wondering how they can get all the different wood for so much ships...

Not all of the bows in thee middle ages were out of yew.... In the Mary Rose is one found out of  elm and there is an example of laburnum from Europe that is probably older than the MR bows.

 

Urufu_Shinjiro:
TO expound slightly on the multi-generational tree tending, that would have been completely normal at the time. Remember under the feudal system your job was whatever your fathers job was, it was unusual for a son to venture out to a different trade, well a first son anyway, the other sons may go to different trades if the fathers trade does not support more than one or two at the time. But if part of your job as a forester was to tend the yew trees so they grow to good bow material then there would be an unbroken continuity from father to son tending the trees and no one would have thought anything of it, completely normal for them.

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