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How did bowyers harvest so much yew?
iowabow:
Del that fallen yew is a very interesting post.
JW_Halverson:
--- Quote from: iowabow on December 14, 2015, 07:56:16 am ---Del that fallen yew is a very interesting post.
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Likely enough someone long ago saw a tree like that and thought encouraging this would (wood?) go a long way toward large scale farming of yew.
poplar600:
We're talking about 100,000's of prime slow growing yew staves. The same tree would have had to be "encouraged" by multiple generations. Most T.Baccata, though not all, is worthless when compared to it's North American counterpart.
I can't see how England acquired such vast amounts of tier 1 yew wood.
poplar600:
--- Quote from: AndrewS on December 14, 2015, 04:40:24 am ---In former times the sovereigns have places where only yew is cultivated and thisplaces were strictly protected by the sovereign.
Often you can image where this was, if the place is called for example "Ibengarten" (Garden of yew).
15 years ago, I was on such a place near Dermbach in the Rhoen, Germany and there are old yew trees in the woods more than 500 years old and you need minimum two people to encircle the biggest trees with your arms. There are over 350 old yews in this place.
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I know places like that. Most of the trees are very quick growing (15rpi) and often do not grow straight.
I'm talking 80rpi stuff that is virtually free of any big knots.
Ruddy Darter:
Here's a fallen yew with new branch/tree at my local copse.. I've been eyeing it but I've decided not to cut it, the original canopy has fallen away out of sunlight and the new branch/tree has formed the new canopy so I may kill this old yew if I cut it, but a good example of how straight they grow, its a good 7ft clean and 4"+ diameter. If it grew in this manner in an alpine region I reckon it would make a top bow(?).
Ruddy Darter.
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