A friend of mine at work mentioned he was clearing his property of bodark (osage). I asked if I could come by and look at it. O my word, never have I seen so many straight osage trees in one place. Gus is coming up on Saturday and we'll take 2 Stihl's to these babies. I'm quite sure we can exceed the 2000lb load limit on my trailer in the first tree. He said I could stack what we didn't have room for there at his place and get it later. And, it gets better. Every single tree species in his woods is a potential bow. There's osage, pecan, hackberry, slippery elm, post oak and juniper. Unbelievably, every tree is dead straight, because this property was a thicket, and the owner cleared most of the trees out, leaving the straightest. It's like a park, but he hates the bodark fruit and thorns. Here are the best 5 trees and also the first trees I took pictures of, before I quit looking as I knew that was far more than we could handle. That last pair of trees...elm on the left, osage on the right...both trees are about 50' tall and the osage has about a 30' straight trunk section. Unbelievable. Best of all, he has a tractor and told me to cut out what I wanted and he'd drag the remainder with the tractor to his burn piles, I don't even have to clean up!! It just doesn't get any better with bow wood. To quote Pappy, Life Is Good!
George
