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Offline Eric Krewson

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Re: how many staves do you keep?
« Reply #45 on: March 29, 2020, 07:32:09 am »
Once you can recognize an osage tree you can spot one from a distance, I can spot one on a fence line 1/4 mile away across a field as I drive down a hwy. Osage likes bottomland better than hilltops, in the bottom land they tend to be several in a group, it might be one acre or 40 populated with them.

Offline Jim Davis

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Re: how many staves do you keep?
« Reply #46 on: March 29, 2020, 11:11:02 am »
Driving a secondary  road  in the northwest corner of Kentucky I saw a long fence row  that looked to be all huge Osage trees. I would not want to tackle those giants  with anything  less  than an equally huge  hydraulic splitter.  Those trees would be  better for a sawmill than or  making bow  staves.

Watch upcoming Primitive Archer magazine issues for a different approach to the stave supply. Don't know when the article is scheduled.
Jim Davis

Kentucky--formerly Maine