Anyone just south of Lebanon Missouri want osage?

[JW_Halverson]

I was contacted by someone in the Rendezvous community wanting to trade an osage tree on her brother-in-law's property for a bow. Since she is 14 hours away, I had to decline.

I said I would put word out on the wind and see if anything blew in.  I have asked her to send me photos of the tree as bait.

[JW_Halverson]

The tree has been felled and bunked up into 7-8 ft lengths and is loaded on a trailer.

[TimBo]

Does the trailer come with it???  I am about 3.5 hours north.  Maybe Kyle (MO Coon Catcher) will see this - he is a bit closer than me.

[Mo_coon-catcher]

I’d love to Since it’s not very far away, if I didn’t have so much going on right now. I’m not expecting a free day for a month or so.

Kyle

[Selfbowman]

Pics!!!!

[JW_Halverson]

Yeah, I posted this around on several sites and someone close to her went to take a look. Turns out she would give you a free piece of osage if you made it into a bow for her for free. The rest of it was $50 a stick and there wasn't anything that would even burn straight, much less make a bow.

So sorry.

[Weylin]

Haha, What a deal!

[osage outlaw]

A very small percentage of osage trees are bow quality.   It's hard to explain the difference to someone who knows nothing about building a bow.  Their neighbor probably told them people make bows from those trees and it's worth a lot of money. 

[JW_Halverson]

A very small percentage of osage trees are bow quality.   It's hard to explain the difference to someone who knows nothing about building a bow.  Their neighbor probably told them people make bows from those trees and it's worth a lot of money.

That's what I figger, too.

Last time I was at the Classic we stopped in Herman, MO at a farm where a guy builds split rail fences and will sell a little of the osage for a bowyer that stops by. He had a windrow of cut osage logs 50 yds long and 6 ft high. We spent over 3 hours to get 12 staves.

[Selfbowman]

I have had countless numbers of people over me the same kind of Osage. You never know though. Arvin