Re: [MBZ] OT backyards and Trees

[Curley McLain via Mercedes]

http://www.wood-database.com/osage-orange/

Craig via Mercedes wrote:

What is the grain of osage orange like?


I can attest to the last sentence in this report.  I used to make 
bonfires for hayrides, and when I had a pile of old hedge posts, it 
burned hot and long.  Lotsa BTUs there.


For  more info contact Dr. Marc Shellstrom at U of Wisc, Platteville, or 
the UW Forest Products Lab.  Marc is the foremost wood identification 
expert in the country.


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Re: [MBZ] OT backyards and Trees

[Curley McLain via Mercedes]

It would make very good key heads (and trim) for MBs old enough to have 
a real key.


Craig via Mercedes wrote:

Would it make good wood trim for a Mercedes?<- valiantly trying to
>  keep things on topic


What is the grain of osage orange like?

Maybe it would make good wood to make things like key holders.




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Re: [MBZ] OT backyards and Trees

[Donald Snook via Mercedes]

Osage Orange is VERY hard, super dense.  It starts out a vivid yellow color 
when cut and mellows to a chocolate brown. VERY HEAVY.

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On Jun 2, 2017, at 5:19 PM, Craig 
> wrote:

On Fri, 2 Jun 2017 15:11:03 -0500 "M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes"
> wrote:

Would it make good wood trim for a Mercedes?  <- valiantly trying to
keep things on topic

What is the grain of osage orange like?

Maybe it would make good wood to make things like key holders.


I came home last night and a VERY LARGE limb on one of my hedge trees
had broken off.  Hedge (or Osage Orange) is so hard I have never seen
large limbs break off from storms.  It wasn't storming yesterday
anyway.  I got to looking at it and I think lightning may have struck
the tree.  Some of the limbs look blackened.   I don't really have a
question, just thought it was interesting.  Now I have get the chain
saws out this weekend and cut it up.

And make sure you have a sharp chain!


Craig


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Re: [MBZ] OT backyards and Trees

[Floyd Thursby via Mercedes]

That stuff is da bomb for making planes and such as it dries to be hard 
as rock (and nearly as impossible to cut).  How many sizable chunks 
could you get in one of those flat-rate postal boxes?  I'd pay you for some!


--FT


On 6/2/17 3:53 PM, Donald Snook via Mercedes wrote:

I came home last night and a VERY LARGE limb on one of my hedge trees had 
broken off.  Hedge (or Osage Orange) is so hard I have never seen large limbs 
break off from storms.  It wasn't storming yesterday anyway.  I got to looking 
at it and I think lightning may have struck the tree.  Some of the limbs look 
blackened.   I don't really have a question, just thought it was interesting.  
Now I have get the chain saws out this weekend and cut it up.  The small limbs 
are great for the fire pit and the big logs burn hot and long in the fireplace. 
 Of course, I am not going to need any firewood for months, but I can add it to 
the pile.

Don Snook
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“Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or 
petty,
never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the 
enemy.”


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Re: [MBZ] OT backyards and Trees

[Craig via Mercedes]

On Fri, 2 Jun 2017 15:11:03 -0500 "M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes"
 wrote:

> Would it make good wood trim for a Mercedes?  <- valiantly trying to
> keep things on topic

What is the grain of osage orange like?

Maybe it would make good wood to make things like key holders.


> > I came home last night and a VERY LARGE limb on one of my hedge trees
> > had broken off.  Hedge (or Osage Orange) is so hard I have never seen
> > large limbs break off from storms.  It wasn't storming yesterday
> > anyway.  I got to looking at it and I think lightning may have struck
> > the tree.  Some of the limbs look blackened.   I don't really have a
> > question, just thought it was interesting.  Now I have get the chain
> > saws out this weekend and cut it up.

And make sure you have a sharp chain!


Craig

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Re: [MBZ] OT backyards and Trees

[Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes]

Bearly.

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 4:11 PM, M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:

> Would it make good wood trim for a Mercedes?  <- valiantly trying to keep
> things on topic
>
> -MMM-
>
> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Donald Snook via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
> > I came home last night and a VERY LARGE limb on one of my hedge trees had
> > broken off.  Hedge (or Osage Orange) is so hard I have never seen large
> > limbs break off from storms.  It wasn't storming yesterday anyway.  I got
> > to looking at it and I think lightning may have struck the tree.  Some of
> > the limbs look blackened.   I don't really have a question, just thought
> it
> > was interesting.  Now I have get the chain saws out this weekend and cut
> it
> > up.  The small limbs are great for the fire pit and the big logs burn hot
> > and long in the fireplace.  Of course, I am not going to need any
> firewood
> > for months, but I can add it to the pile.
> >
> > Don Snook
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Re: [MBZ] OT backyards and Trees

[M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes]

Would it make good wood trim for a Mercedes?  <- valiantly trying to keep
things on topic

-MMM-

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Donald Snook via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:

> I came home last night and a VERY LARGE limb on one of my hedge trees had
> broken off.  Hedge (or Osage Orange) is so hard I have never seen large
> limbs break off from storms.  It wasn't storming yesterday anyway.  I got
> to looking at it and I think lightning may have struck the tree.  Some of
> the limbs look blackened.   I don't really have a question, just thought it
> was interesting.  Now I have get the chain saws out this weekend and cut it
> up.  The small limbs are great for the fire pit and the big logs burn hot
> and long in the fireplace.  Of course, I am not going to need any firewood
> for months, but I can add it to the pile.
>
> Don Snook
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