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Offline Pat B

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hill cane harvest begins
« on: November 23, 2008, 05:47:23 pm »
Like every morning, I took my dogs for a walk this morning. Along our driveway we have a few clumps of hill cane(Arundaneria appalachiana) growing and this morning I collected these. I walked into a clump of cane, squatted down and collected these 16 culms from right around me. After a few years of management, I think it's gonna be a good year. ;) 8)
   There are a few folks out there that I have promised cane to this year. If you see this, please send me a PM if you are one of them. You other guys don't try to slip one past me! >:(  If I get plenty, I will offer up bundles of cane on the Trading Post later.
   This is the first I have collected for the 2009 season. I also plan to collect sourwood shoots for those that are interested. I'll post about them after I begin collecting them.
   Pat

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Re: hill cane harvest begins
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2008, 06:11:29 pm »
Hey Pat.........I am not one of them...but if there is anyone out there that would dig me up some Rhizome and send it to me....I would be happy to pay shipping.......... ;D
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Re: hill cane harvest begins
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2008, 06:29:56 pm »
Mike, I'll see what I can do!  ;)     Pat
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Re: hill cane harvest begins
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2008, 06:55:10 pm »
I will do Anything to Beautify the Texas Panhandle....and enhance my ability to harvest Arrow Shafts!!! All we have here is Phragmites....and they are limiteds to about a 100 miles from Me....and not worth messing with for me......... :'(
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Re: hill cane harvest begins
« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2008, 09:03:22 pm »
Looks like some good shafts there Pat. I've been driving past clumps of Jap arrow boo here in the hurricane destruction zone for the past week and haven't snipped a one, also palm trees laying around everywhere. I'm going home in the morning and am ashamed for not gathering. I did however get a bucket of chert out of the jobsite - just thinking out loud..
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Re: hill cane harvest begins
« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2008, 07:25:48 am »
got plenty of cane but would trade ya for some sourwood shoots.
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Re: hill cane harvest begins
« Reply #6 on: November 24, 2008, 09:25:43 am »
Chris, I'll let you know when I get a mess of them.   Pat
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Re: hill cane harvest begins
« Reply #7 on: November 24, 2008, 09:38:01 am »
Pat, I would love to try some of those sourwood shoots if you get out to harvesting some later on. I'm sure I have something you"need".

Thanks Tracy

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Re: hill cane harvest begins
« Reply #8 on: November 24, 2008, 11:43:59 am »
Tracy, I'll post when I have them. Please remind me.    Pat
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Re: hill cane harvest begins
« Reply #9 on: November 26, 2008, 09:51:38 am »
Hey Pat B
Happy Thanksgiving from Camel City!
We have a lot of river cane in this part of NC and I have used some for arrows. The problem is usually that the area around the nodes usually has a big divot in it. I forget exactly what its called, but its where the leaf springs up from the culm.
How does Hill cane compare?
Also I dont know if anyone has done this but have you heard of backing a bow with a section of large diameter cane?
Happy hunting!
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Re: hill cane harvest begins
« Reply #10 on: November 26, 2008, 10:04:13 am »
Tom, the hill cane has very little divot at the node compared to river cane. Switch cane is somewhere in the middle. All three are Arundaneria and all 3 are native to the US.
   I think Tim Baker, in one of the first TBBs wrote about using strips of thin boo, laid parrallel to the bow, as a backing. As long as they go from tip to tip there shouldn't be a problem. I think he disassembled a bamboo shade to get the strips.  I've have never tried it.     Pat
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Re: hill cane harvest begins
« Reply #11 on: November 26, 2008, 11:47:26 am »
Tom, you just have to be pickier when cutting river cane. You can get shafts without the big sulcate divots-crawl into the middle of the patch and find the smaller canes that don't have branches near the bottom. Only use the first section of cane right above the ground, the higher up the stem you get, the worse the divots get. There is also a lot of chinese bamboo naturalized in NC (many people call it river cane.) Even the smaller stems of it are pretty dished out, much more so than the native cane.
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Re: hill cane harvest begins
« Reply #12 on: November 26, 2008, 07:52:47 pm »
Pat.  I would love to try some of the sourwood shoots as well, if you get any extra.
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Re: hill cane harvest begins
« Reply #13 on: November 27, 2008, 12:22:26 am »
Just remind me when the times comes.  ;) 
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Re: hill cane harvest begins
« Reply #14 on: November 27, 2008, 02:53:32 am »
Pat, I think you could start a side business with that cane there!
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