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Pat B:
I have tried it but it made me dizzy.  8)
Hemp stems are pretty tough so if you can find them straight enough and the right size I'm sure they'd work.  Also, you'd have to be careful where you used them. I wouldn't travel with them.  :o

Outbackbob48:
Pat, I gather Horseweed at the end of growing season, still a little green but dry out strong and wall thickness is at its peak , like you said deteriorates after winter moisture arrives. Horseweed is perfect for handdrills . Long, straight, tuff and have a pithy center for easy dust and easy ignition to a coal on a pc of white pine hearth board. Seem to have also made the Ready Round up jump where it will not kill it, I see lots of Horseweed in the Soybean fields late in the season. Bob

Pat B:
Interesting about the Round Up resistance. I think lots of common weeds are becoming pesticide resistant.
 Do you use sound white pine or slightly doughty wood. We have lots of white pines and many on the ground. Same with poplar.

Outbackbob48:
Pat, sound but dry and I try and stay away from resin or pitch areas, split out a rough board about the same thickness as your little finger  or same dia. as my drill. Some of these bean fields there is not a single weed then I started to notice single tall weeds around August. Horseweed some how seems to grow. At first I thought Horseweed was some how mixed in the bean seed. Now it seems to be everywhere but I really notice in soybeans. I have been seeing a lot of wild parsnip in the road ditchs lately, bad invasive and will burn  ya.  Bob

neuse:
Always learning.
Didn't know what horseweed was until today, or it's uses.
I will be harvesting soon.
Seems really skinny for arrows.

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