Osage orange

[Jed1124]

Never seen any Osage Orange around here, Must not grow here. Any one have any pictures of what it looks like ?

Does not grow that far north as far as I know. Mostly up to Southern Jersey then through the mid west. Not any around me in CT that I know of.

 

[buzz sawyer]

Yeah its the same like that here. It grows like that because back in the day they planted it for fences and trees don't grow very good in fence rows. I found an area that wasn't planted like that. They are growing in the timber which is very rare around these parts. The area is over an a hour dive from where i live. I not going to start on it unless i find a market for it and know i will make enough money to make it worth my time. I know i can make money for selling some of it as fence post. But i don't really need to dive that far for that.I have enough of Osage orange around where i live to make into fence posts. I haven't had any luck finding a market for this stuff beside fence post so i don't know what i am going to do with it.

Seems like I've heard of these fence rows referred to as "devil rows". The upper branches get entwined and the danged things won't fall over - even cut all the way through.

It's great for turning on a lathe but the yellow color turns fairly dark brown after a time.