[SEL] Hedge Apples

[Bill Brueck]

My experience with Osage was from a partial fence row in a rented pasture in
central Iowa.  I recall the trees being pretty scrubby: low and dense and
not much straight wood in them.  So I would guess the shorter growing season
wasn't as good for Osage as your area.  

I wasn't involved in the project myself but heard that when they took that
fence row out they had to sharpen the chain saws every few cuts, the wood
was so hard.  I bet it would make great bearings for a disk or rotary hoe.

B²
 
Bill Brueck (brick)
Chatfield, MN, USA
 
Confusion is a higher state of knowledge than ignorance.


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com] On Behalf Of Judge Tommy
Turner
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 9:27 AM
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Subject: Re: [SEL] Hedge Apples

Good to know George.  I would assume that someone needed it for a bearing of
some sort.  We have a lot of them here in central KY.  They grow rather
large as well.  I guess our climate is right for some trees to get larger
than they do in many parts of the country.  A couple of years ago I had an
engine at Portland and it was on Sassafrass skids.  
They were probably 4" x 6".  I had several people ask me about them as they
liked the grain and color of the wood.  Most all were surprised when I told
them sassafrass as that type tree never grew more than 6 inches or so in
diameter where they lived.  Here, I can make 6 x 8 sassafrass skids all day
long.  Its a beautiful wood.

Tommy Turner