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BowEd:
Another beautiful picture.I don't have any birch here.What kind of birch is it mostly?
Yes I think most oaks hold onto their leaves quite a while,but it's the pin oak that holds on the longest here.Great tree with little mess for around the house and lawn.It stands up to the most brutal ice storms well.
I've got red,bur,and white oak here too.Great deer attractants.On the right year the white oaks are the best.
The pods from the aggravating honey locust attract deer too.

bjrogg:
They are white birch Ed. They are beautiful even without their leaves. Not very long lifespan though.

One thing about the ash bore. Some of the other hardwood species are trying to take their place now that the ash have all died

Bjrogg

BowEd:
Ash are becoming extinct here also.Many many very large ones standing dead.It's a shame.
An Amish family who have a saw mill I know personally make all of their buggys from ash for frames.They use expensive plywood too.Average base buggy costs $6500.00.They've sold them for over $10,000.00 though too.
They do buy parts for them like springs and wheels though.
Pretty sophisticated buggies with battery powered lights and even kerosene heaters.

After construction they have a paint booth.




I keep a lot of straight edge grain ash strips for backing bows.
They were fascinated watching me bend wood with a heat gun.A few of the boys in that family make bows through my assiciation with them.They still prefer to use compounds though.They don't want to go through the practice of shooting to achieve accuracy.

bjrogg:
They look exactly the same here to Ed. I did some custom corn spraying this year and they must have had a auction or something. I bet a minimum of 200 buggies drove by the field I was in. Along with another 30 or more van with Amish taxi wrote on them. Would have been a interesting auction to go to. I will see if I can find a couple pictures I took.

Here’s one I took yesterday. This place looks so beautiful in the fall. It was better a week ago but it still looked nice yesterday. Today we have our cold, drizzling rain and strong winds so tomorrow it’ll probably look different.

Bjrogg

bjrogg:
Afraid it’s not a very good picture, but the steady stream of buggies lasted for over a hour. I meet a bunch of them when I was driving to the field and their horses didn’t like my Hagie at all. I tried very hard to give them as much room as I could but several of the horses were bucking and standing on their hind legs. The passengers in the buggies looked terrified. I was so glad no one got hurt and I was even more glad they weren’t on the road anymore when I finished the field.

Bjrogg

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