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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: HH~ on July 30, 2019, 09:37:49 am

Title: Brothers of the Hedge
Post by: HH~ on July 30, 2019, 09:37:49 am

Did some cutting other day off farm up the road. My 2nd Batt Ranger bud hunts and farms this place. Had a big Osage tree tip over. Got three 80" sections out of this bugger. Stuff looks OK for Tennessee Hedge. Figgered it to be a 70yr old tree.

HH~

Title: Re: Brothers of the Hedge
Post by: SLIMBOB on July 30, 2019, 09:41:12 am

Nice.

Title: Re: Brothers of the Hedge
Post by: Eric Krewson on July 30, 2019, 10:19:46 am

Did you salvage the billet wood?

Title: Re: Brothers of the Hedge
Post by: Del the cat on July 30, 2019, 10:55:05 am

Woo yeller gold...  :)
Del

Title: Re: Brothers of the Hedge
Post by: HH~ on July 30, 2019, 11:00:13 am

Yes Eric
I kept it all. Belly splits too.

HH~

Title: Re: Brothers of the Hedge
Post by: Pat B on July 30, 2019, 11:11:59 am

Nice haul. Looks like some real good osage.   :BB

Title: Re: Brothers of the Hedge
Post by: Jim Davis on July 30, 2019, 11:13:03 am

You'll be  throwing rocks at elm!  :-) I'm a little jealous.

Title: Re: Brothers of the Hedge
Post by: gifford on July 30, 2019, 11:26:46 am

Way to go, that's a great haul. Lots of bows in those splits. Congrats.

Title: Re: Brothers of the Hedge
Post by: Hawkdancer on July 30, 2019, 01:34:12 pm

Lots of stripping and sealing to do!  Nice load!  Plenty of staves to work on - you could develop orange vision! (lol)
Hawkdancer

Title: Re: Brothers of the Hedge
Post by: bjrogg on July 30, 2019, 02:55:22 pm

That should help restock your supply. Very nice load of hedge HH
Bjrogg

Title: Re: Brothers of the Hedge
Post by: Russ on July 30, 2019, 02:57:03 pm

Nice load! Waiting till fall to harvest my osage

Title: Re: Brothers of the Hedge
Post by: Selfbowman on July 30, 2019, 06:02:42 pm

That’s some good Osage I don’t care where it grew. No excuses in that pile. I would be interested in a couple of those staves if they could be sold for a good price. I’m not cheap when it comes to good staves. To my knowledge I have never built a Osage bow from Tennessee Osage. Arvin

Title: Re: Brothers of the Hedge
Post by: jeffp51 on July 30, 2019, 10:19:59 pm

Did you know the intermountain west is the best climate for seasoning Osage? I'd be willing to help a brother out. . .

Title: Re: Brothers of the Hedge
Post by: osage outlaw on July 31, 2019, 01:03:53 am

That's a great haul!

Title: Re: Brothers of the Hedge
Post by: Hawkdancer on July 31, 2019, 02:15:28 am

Jeff,
We could have the whole batch cured for him by late fall, most likely! >:D :BB (SH)
Hawkdancer

Title: Re: Brothers of the Hedge
Post by: HH~ on August 03, 2019, 06:49:19 am

Well Brothers,

Had to go back to this big ol Hedge tree and get last log. Then, I got to looking at the butt and thought "boy, I can get a pile of billets of this baby". So, I got to it.

HH~

Title: Re: Brothers of the Hedge
Post by: osage outlaw on August 03, 2019, 11:51:01 am

That is some clean looking osage.  Nice score!

Title: Re: Brothers of the Hedge
Post by: Pat B on August 03, 2019, 12:38:57 pm

 :OK

Title: Re: Brothers of the Hedge
Post by: bradsmith2010 on August 03, 2019, 12:59:20 pm

thats great,,,, congrats, I made alot of good bows from Tennessee hedge,,that looks like about a million dollars worth,, (-S

Title: Re: Brothers of the Hedge
Post by: HH~ on August 07, 2019, 06:20:35 am

This chunk is nice. Get two clean blanks out of this-on here.

HH~

Title: Re: Brothers of the Hedge
Post by: M2A on August 07, 2019, 08:21:32 am

Congrats on such a nice find! Thats some awesome looking stuff.