The amazing thing to me, is how you found logs that straight.

Lived in eastern Iowa for 63 years and we had a lot of them in our area. Always thought about making a bow but that never happened. I live in Louisiana now and have never seen one down here.

Earlier this year I cut down a Hackberry for a friend to clear space for his new house. Nicest looking wood I’ve ever seen. Branched were a little prickly to clean up but..... The slabs from the logs saved from that tree will be stair treads in the new house. Can’t wait to see the finished staircase.

I make charcuterie and cutting boards from Osage Orange. It is a very very dense and hard wood.

Yay! finally, somebody appreciates the Osage Orange Tree! I like bows made with it, howevr difficult it may be! Just a side note on this tree; 1; it split easily and without warning! Also, the splinters go deep, and fester something bad! For bow makers, its best to make them from the outside (edge) of a log, because the back (side away from you when shooting) has to be intact-no cuts into that grain because as strong as this wood is, if you violate this rule and cut into that grain, it will split from that cut on to the end of the bow when you bend to shoot! Also, dont throw away the chips &sawdust, as it will make good stain for cloth;just put in water-see how yellow the water gets!! This is why you should avoid making spoons, bowls from it. Love the saw, guys!! Maybe someday!

I just bought a bunch of maple from a guy in OKC, and mentioned Osage Orange...he gave me two decent sized live edge slabs of it to play with. I am brand new to woodworking, but I do know I love this wood. I'll likely use it for luthiery projects. We shall see when I get my jointer on June 1st. Thanks for the video! Beautiful wood and very fortunate to have so close.

Love these! I live in a small rural area in southwest PA and these things are everywhere. Old fence lines, road embankments and around cemeteries. Try slabing these beasts with an Alaskan mill on a Stihl for extra fun. Thank you for an informative video.

You and I are in complete agreement on Osage. Walnut and cherry are pretty but Osage is king. But then again that yellow wood always stops me in my tracks after the blade opens it up.

We have lots of those in Indiana....it sure does make beautiful boards!!

My favorite wood to turn on the lathe. Thank you for sharing. Have a blessed day.

Have a bunch of these on our ground in Southern Illinois. Wanted to clean up and get rid of, but now I want to keep and preserve

Another interesting fact about bois’d’ark. When your brush hogging a pasture full of 2-3” mesquite and you hit one of those by mistake, it’ll dang near shake you off your tractor!!!!. If you ever need to make a metal part and only have a hunk of bois d ark, it will probably last longer then the metal part…….

Great video: by the way Its one of the best sounding tone woods for building guitars that I've ever used . If you have some 8 inch wide Quartersawn chunks I'd be interested in buying them.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge The wood is gorgeous

Another one of the oddball arrows in the fat quiver of numerous and wonderful hardwoods of North America with similar properties is black locust. Very very high btu when burned, very hard to mill, and the wood lasts in the ground decades. You look like you might be having too much fun!

What you did not mention is that the wood turns from bright yellow to chocolate brown when exposed to sunlight (UV light).

I’m in central MO. We have these all over our 120 acre hunting property. This winter I’m clearing many of these along with Eastern Red Cedar. Glad u made the comments around 15:00 about the fruit being used as an insect/bug repellent/killer. I put them in my garage and basement for years. Yours is the first video even mentioning it that I’ve watched. Wasn’t sure I’d it was true about legitimately being an insect repellent. Thanks for clarifying.

You are 100% correct

Osage arrows with Flint ridge points would be a beautiful thing Really enjoyed this video

Hedge is used for fence posts all over Kansas. It lasts for about 80-100 yearsThey were planted for wind breaks After the dust bowl in the midwest. It burns hot enough to warp just about any wood burning stove.

I have a stump just like yours. Cut it 32 years ago and still hard as a rock. I think I read once that it is the hardest wood in North America.. and I have a bunch of them 😀. Thanks for sharing.

I thought I had found some black walnut seedlings to start and I’ve gone down the rabbit hole learning about Osage orange. TY!

I have a lot of Osage Orange a the farm in IL. Smaller and much more twisted though. I’ll have to take a look and see if I can find a straight large one. Great, interesting video, thanks,

Great video. Very informative. Thanks for the lesson!

Top notch video! Your B footage has improved immensely! This should be on the woodmizer webpage! Makes me want one!! Great job.

I’d give this award to persimmon, the only ebony native to North America.

I can’t keep the squirrels off of them 😂

Love hedge apple. I wish it grew like popular.

I’m near Topeka Kansas and these trees are everywhere. Most are so gnarled that it doesn’t seem worth it to try and mill some. But I’ll probably look for some now after watching this video. Subscribed!

When I was a kid in Pittsburgh, PA, we used to hit the fruit with baseball bats at each other. They were all over the place. I just thought it was a weed tree. Now I live in Virginia and can't find it at all. I think I will get some seeds or the fruit and try to start some trees or hedges with it.

You're doing really good with your videos. It's a time consuming but fun process to create original content and then do all of the editing. Anyway, I really like this video. I'll have to go look next time I'm back home because I know there are some of these near where I worked when I was a teen.

Here in extreme southern central Oklahoma, it's almost impossible to find Osage orange, hedge apple, bois d'arc, bodark, etc. with enough trunk to saw into lumber; they all branch too close to the ground. However, beautiful wood, great fence posts (I have some that were literally over 100 years old and still are solid), and dried will dull tools ASAP.

I agree 100% also a great turning wood

We have a lot of Osage orange in Oklahoma. The Amish people here do use it for firewood. I havent been inside the house to see what kind of heater they have, but I am sure its enclosed. I can find out though how they burn it if anyone is interested.

Yes it is one of coolest wood, I just wish I could afford some for bow making

I love Osage! Lots of fun and generates a lot of conversations. Very unique. I'm currently working on a chainsaw cut bench.

I am planting a ton on my property and learning about coppicing to make bow wood/hedge posts for a secondary business in the far flung future :). I would argue that the redwood is impossible to beat as coolest tree but my top 5 definitely includes hedge. It's just a crazy set of characteristics you'd never expect being fast growing as well as the strongest wood. Not only is it the hottest wood to burn in the U.S... it's the hottest by a large margin. I would say redwood, bristlecone pine, osage orange, pawpaw, Ozark chinquapin chestnut (mostly for the story of how it is being saved) are all good candidates for most interesting tree.

You do not have to worry about hedge apples if you have the male tree, like I do. It is called iron wood for a reason. It is one of my favorite trees .

I've got some crab apples/horse apples in my garage.🖐️

Glad to have found this channel through Nathan and you building a slab. Your a do'er n not a watcher. I wondered how you got that sawdust out and kept up with... think I might of been inclined to use a small waste conveyer and a slight dip in the floor so it had its own channel to travel in but a real conveyer would go right under the middle and keep a lot of it outdoors. Now to to many people do these as they have their drawbacks but every shake an shingle mill I either built or made for myself had a spalt burner that was buried in the ground with a screen roof an a good fan to blow air down into that hole and keep that flame a cooking an there is no sawdust, spalts from the splitters or bark off the logs. Also if you pick the cans out of your trash, it will take it away with a quickness. One about say ten foot wide by the same deep an lined with some fire brick and its there for one long time, and the ash... if any left is so easy to just dip it out with the mini excavator that I saw you playing on. It does require a screen lid or the sparks and ash that tend to float away might find a dry spot to cause greaf... ... I miss running a good wood mill as its just relaxing to me and I see some things that just never really show themselves otherwise. I was disappointed in that maple burl that you sliced up as it should of had some nice swirls an configurations that generally come from them. I made some huge coffee tables from them out of wood from washington state. I don't have much time back there as I was born on one coast and ended up on the other. Nice place but to see a mill setting inside of a building that just needs a bed, coffee pot (I am sure it already does) and a place to set an watch net flix. So's yea. I enjoyed it and hit the like button

I make hedgeapple turkey box calls.tuff to rasp and file on.makes a high pitched sound.also makes good hiking sticks.

Beautiful hand made bow

I have seen the odd Osage growing here in Ontario Canada but never knew what they were. Only found out today. Very cool tree!

We called it the horse apple tree, and Fort Worth Texas area is full of them. They have softball size fruit (Not eatable), that are a real problem. They will be everywhere and a pain in the you know what.

If I had a shop that nice I would have to add a dust collector to the Woodmizer. Great video.

That would be great to finish a tiny house with

A good quality osage Selfbow stave sells for $140 72 inches long 3 inches across the back seasoned for a year Sawdust makes a great dye for cloth

Interesting. I enjoyed the history lesson. New sub over from OTW

Been trying to figure out what these trees were here in northern France for some time and i agree it's lovely wood and too good to burn.

Finally a good vid on Osage orange, My favorite wood ,Just a few thoughts of mine. Git it out of direct sun light as soon as possible until dry, it WILL crack, it will also darken over time- sun light expedites this. I have made knife handles including pocket knifes and hatchet handles. turned ring boxes. and a judges gavel and sound board And intend many more projects with it. I'm kind of a nut over this wood. Thanks for the very good video about Osage orange. It is NOT a good idea to burn this wood inside of your home. Has anyone found a good way to keep the yellow color when first cut.

I think the unloved trees are all pretty interesting. Black Locust and Osage Orange for example.

I'm lucky to have plenty growing here in York County, PA.

Very rare awesome tree,why the hell arent there groves of it.

Yeah, I don't know about the insects repellent stuff, but if you slice em in half and jab a hunk of cinnamon in the fruit it puts off an amazing smell. They'll last for weeks like that on the coffee table without turning. Smells good! I will say, I've never seen insects attracted to a sliced open hedge apple.

I have a TON of osage on my farm in Kansas but none that grow that big or straight. More like giant bushes.

It’s really difficult to turn. I did a few bowls and a hollow vessel and all them split. I still like it.

Commerce; Texas has a Bois d Arc festival each September as a city event. Trees are abundant in that part of northeast Texas

I think a live edge picnic table made from that would look good up on your cherry deck at the barn

The fruit was eaten by mammoths which explains its thorns and it’s ability to withstand a trampling by mammoths ie toughness

We have lots of it on our property, but it’s all fence posts now.

I have eight seedlings that I grew from a fruit that I found by the road by the woods I hike in. I know the farmer who owns the woods said he has osage orange trees. I have only half an acre and am carefully considering where to plant these trees….for a property line, how far would you stay back. I had not planned to coppice but to let them go up and fill in sideway with branches to limit depth.

I've got tons of them.

Makes some good guitars too

Live in Ga. lived on a farm for a while in my teens that had one of these trees in the back yard. Now i'm 69 have one of these growing in my yard from the seed out of a seed from that tree less then 1 miles from where i live now.

I'm with ya, I've milled some up with my chainsaw mill and it's the coolest looking wood in the USA, I know so many people that just burn it as firewood, what a waste.

I think you are right.

BOW-dark, darlin' ;)

man what a great looking shop you have.how do you keep it clean, the dust must go everywhere.what type wood stove is that and how do you like it.that is nice wood

How cold hardy are these trees? Can they survive northern Manitoba?

I forgot all about this tree my dad's papaw had these along the outh sod of his cow pasture

Some good bows in all that wood......

Build the bow 🏹

What’s the plans for the wood? Ps: pretty cool vintage Piedmont tobacco sign!

Where’s the board with the double pith?

I have access to these. Can you slab for a cabin? Do you need to do anything to prevent splits?

You made the video about cuting the osage orange tree but hardly showed the slabs why?

Asking for trouble using chainsaws at arms length, as though you are shitting yourself using one, get stood up to the work, this way you see what may happen, I have been a timber faller for 40 years, never lost any fingers or been cut with a chainsaw, now I havnt dropped ones as large as north american trees, but have felled ones 6 to 10 feet through the its butt, never had one split, i.e. Widow makers, I had a good teacher............I have never seen this timber before in my life, I saw it on a large log cabin built using it, very hard timber, oh and yes, all the tree's felled, sawyer was stood up to the job in hand.

A force NOT to be reckoned with? So, you could just ignore them?

How about showing us THE WOOD.

where are u located at

Do you sale any yellow wood

I could use staves of that Osage orange in S E Ohio. lol

Hey how can i get a small 1 inch thick 4 inch wide 3 feet long ?

hickory

Cut ‘em down. ESP theBig Uns. Tons of old growth.

It’s pronounced “Bow dark”