Charlie, green hedge balls?
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Kraig,
I'll see if by chance I have any pics.
The one's we had this year are already in the wood stove, but I have a standing order from Missouri with a buddy of mine to get some every year.
I'll see if by chance I have any pics.
The one's we had this year are already in the wood stove, but I have a standing order from Missouri with a buddy of mine to get some every year.
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Kraig-
I didn't know what they either. I GOOGLED it and came up with this.
http://hedgeapple.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura_pomifera
I didn't know what they either. I GOOGLED it and came up with this.
http://hedgeapple.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura_pomifera
Art, thanks. Interesting reading.
CHARLIE - Isn't it sad what these young KIDS (Art & Kraig) ;-) don't know about that us old-timers grew up with?
My Mom always used to have hedge apples in the basement rooms all summer to keep bugs out.
When we were home for Thanksgiving my Brother-in-law has been cutting hedge trees along some of his fields the last couple months and gave my Wife & my Sisiter-in-law each a half dozen hedge apples.
Wife & I think there's a good market for those hedge apples as an ecologically friendly bug repellant but there's so little hedge left around anymore we'd have to wait for the trees to grow and we're too old for that!
Before the days of pressure treated or creosoted fence posts there was nothing better than HEDGE posts for building permanent fences. And when the posts finaly got broken off or whatever they made GREAT bonfires. Dad saved all his hedge posts from when he farmed and he'd cut one or two up every fall and we'd have a weiner roast and hayrack ride on a nice Saturday night every fall. Hedge burns about like coal or charcoal. That little fire would go all afternoon and into the evening.
My Mom always used to have hedge apples in the basement rooms all summer to keep bugs out.
When we were home for Thanksgiving my Brother-in-law has been cutting hedge trees along some of his fields the last couple months and gave my Wife & my Sisiter-in-law each a half dozen hedge apples.
Wife & I think there's a good market for those hedge apples as an ecologically friendly bug repellant but there's so little hedge left around anymore we'd have to wait for the trees to grow and we're too old for that!
Before the days of pressure treated or creosoted fence posts there was nothing better than HEDGE posts for building permanent fences. And when the posts finaly got broken off or whatever they made GREAT bonfires. Dad saved all his hedge posts from when he farmed and he'd cut one or two up every fall and we'd have a weiner roast and hayrack ride on a nice Saturday night every fall. Hedge burns about like coal or charcoal. That little fire would go all afternoon and into the evening.
Denny, I take it that they will grow in Southern Wisconsin? I found websites saying they grow in zones 5-9 or in zones 4-9. I'm right on the line between zone 3 and zone 4. On a newer zone map I'm in zone 3b. I'd like to try growing them. I've long known of Osage Orange and that it made for great fence posts, just had never heard of "green hedge balls". I think I need to get a few to experiment with...
Too bad the internet makes it so easy for people to find info on stuff kinda takes the fun away at times. Ever grow a Whippletree or sail on a stone boat?
Too bad the internet makes it so easy for people to find info on stuff kinda takes the fun away at times. Ever grow a Whippletree or sail on a stone boat?
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Kraig-
You grow the trees, I'll build the launcher and we'll "air-mail" those suckers to Charlie!
You grow the trees, I'll build the launcher and we'll "air-mail" those suckers to Charlie!
KRAIG - Osage hedge was common down in NW IL where I grew up, right around the intersection of I-74 & I-80. We didn't actually have any on any of our farms but the "Apples" were available by just stoppng and picking them up off the ground within a 2-3 miles of our farm. I'll see if I can get a couple more for you from my brother-in-law.
I haven't seen any here in south-central WI so I think we may be a bit too far north for them to grow.
ART - Hedge apples are the size of a softball, the slow pitch or "Beer League" variety, or a large grapefruit, and heavy & solid enough that equipment similar to "Chunking Punkins", just smaller caliber, should work great.
KRAIG - I'm familiar with "Stone Boats", very low sleds originally pulled by horses then later by tractors used to roll large stones out of farm fields onto to move them to the edges of the fields. Not sure if thats what your referrring to.
Whippletree I'm not positive of but I think it's a piece of a hitch to a horse-drawn wagon, but then maybe I'm thinking of "Single-tree".
Since this was a "Test" I didn't Google either one so now I'm off to see how right or wrong I was.
I haven't seen any here in south-central WI so I think we may be a bit too far north for them to grow.
ART - Hedge apples are the size of a softball, the slow pitch or "Beer League" variety, or a large grapefruit, and heavy & solid enough that equipment similar to "Chunking Punkins", just smaller caliber, should work great.
KRAIG - I'm familiar with "Stone Boats", very low sleds originally pulled by horses then later by tractors used to roll large stones out of farm fields onto to move them to the edges of the fields. Not sure if thats what your referrring to.
Whippletree I'm not positive of but I think it's a piece of a hitch to a horse-drawn wagon, but then maybe I'm thinking of "Single-tree".
Since this was a "Test" I didn't Google either one so now I'm off to see how right or wrong I was.
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Denny-
I'm picturing something with a long "barrel" and maybe some form of "propellant".
I'm picturing something with a long "barrel" and maybe some form of "propellant".
