[SEL] Hedge Apples

[bill at antique-engines.com]

It's rot resistant naturally, so it gets used for fence posts here - but
try to drive staples into it!

Bill

> 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-----
> From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com
> [mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com] On Behalf Of Judge Tommy
> Turner
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 9:27 AM
> To: The SEL email discussion list
> 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
>
>
>
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