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To: Osage Orange

I think most hunters do :-) Half the fun is just enjoying what’s going on around you and for the record, I know what an Osage Orange is. Used to pick them by the dozens out of road ditches near Kansas/Nebraska. My FIL used to tell stories about making fence posts out of the wood and they’d still be in use 30 years later.


15 posted on 11/23/2021 5:06:32 PM PST by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: Mean Daddy
OO posts still in use...long time.

Some around here 80 yrs old or more...

It's a hard wood...

17 posted on 11/23/2021 5:22:16 PM PST by Osage Orange (1961 VW Two Door Truck)
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To: Mean Daddy

I have two Osage Orange posts in my yard. One holds my street numbers on it.

They are two of four large stakes (4-5 foot) that used to hold down the wooden windmill on my great grandparents farm in Iowa. Still solid as concrete they are at least 130 years old.

One still has a bolt and some iron strapping on it where it attached to the leg of the windmill.


18 posted on 11/23/2021 5:26:37 PM PST by TigersEye (Ray Epps didn't kill himself.)
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