One of the things I found out that might be helpful. If you have a downed tree or a tree that must be removed, you can use Osage orange to make fabric dye. The wood has a water soluble color in it. Get a good handful of wood chips and boil them in water for 15-20 mins. You will have a yellow dye.
You can also use Osage orange to make a bow. It’s very strong, easy to work with and keeps moisture out very well. A good Osage bow can last multiple life times.
This tree is very tough to knock down with a 20k lb dozer. cut the roots on three sides went to push and nothing..taproot is incredible! The tree was maybe 6 to 8 inches in diameter.
I have a few osage-orange growing here in So. Minn. on the zone 4/5 line, seed collected from central Iowa, but they tend to die back every year due to cold...
It’s not an orange but it can be prepared more like a breadfruit and the pith can be consumed and is a good source of starchy energy.
I've heard the thorns are so big that a hedge is impenetrable, like a barbed wire fence.
One of the things I found out that might be helpful. If you have a downed tree or a tree that must be removed, you can use Osage orange to make fabric dye. The wood has a water soluble color in it. Get a good handful of wood chips and boil them in water for 15-20 mins. You will have a yellow dye.
You can also use Osage orange to make a bow. It’s very strong, easy to work with and keeps moisture out very well. A good Osage bow can last multiple life times.
This tree is very tough to knock down with a 20k lb dozer. cut the roots on three sides went to push and nothing..taproot is incredible! The tree was maybe 6 to 8 inches in diameter.
Where can I buy an Osage orange tree?
It is still used in southern Illinois for fence posts.
I have a few osage-orange growing here in So. Minn. on the zone 4/5 line, seed collected from central Iowa, but they tend to die back every year due to cold...
can they be coppiced?
Great channel.
Nice video, quick, informative and to the point and I like this channel
Yes William 😉
Are you in texas
Nebraska
is osage orange wood good firewood
That would be a waste given the potential to make so many tools out of it