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It is not safe to walk in the yard today.........PICS
William81
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Raining and windy most of the day....I headed down the driveway to check the mail and got hit with a hickory nut right on the top of the head...looked around and the hedge tree was dropping baseball size hedge balls and the acorn tree was adding to the ground clutter...I did not even walk near the walnut trees, they were dropping all over the place ......Fall is here for sure...
All the little critters will be in the yard tonight eating the bounty...
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Yes, it is. A friend gave me a few butternuts today. They are extremely rare around these parts. Some folks call them white walnuts.
I do not think I have ever seen one....
Judy and I were out picking up walnuts today. Every time a breeze came up a few more came thumping down. Fortunately neither of us got hit but I think I'll wait until most are down before picking up the rest. These are 60+ ft tall trees and those nuts can achieve a pretty good velocity on the way down. Bob
I've been plowing the nuts off our driveway for about a month so far. This year has been the biggest mess of nuts we've ever had, and that probably corresponds to the nuts in DC also.
Joe
i hauled a butternut log off the side of the mountain one day and had an old, old friend of my dads make a gunstock from it. all done with hand tools, beautiful piece of wood with a large blond streak. i finished it with many coats of lin speed oil. the shame of it all was it was for a carcano. but that was what i had at the time. think i was about 15.
hedge balls were our hand grenades' playing army when i was a kid in Mo.
I was out checking soybean fields this morning on the UTV. A walnut hit the aluminum roof and about caused me to spill my coffee.
The third picture down those green things are what we called hedge apples where I grew up in East Tennessee. The guys I used to work with said they had never heard of such a thing. We had so many of them us boys would have hedge apple wars sometimes. If you ever get hit in the head with one you'll remember it.
Old wives tale is they keep spiders out of the cellar, also.
Grandparents always had some down there.
I'm sure most of you know if you throw hedge apples in a fire they burn different colors.
No, but I will try that out soon !!
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I call them hunting grenades...☺️....when hunting think cover alone, I will toss a couple into the thick stuff I can't walk through...it has chased a few deer out over the years...
Good thinking there,,
Around here they call em "horse apples" and I heard they were poisonous to horses, I have one tree on my property that produces them.
Hedge apple= Osage orange. It's the most northern rangeing citrus tree. I have seen deer eating them. They may have to freeze first. I don't know. The wood of the tree is the hardest you'll ever try to cut. Cabinet makers like it. It can be bright orange or yellow. It makes a good bow too but it's hard to find a straight piece long enough.
My Grandad used to use Bois d Arc wood for fence posts on the Missouri farm. That wood was HAAAAARRRRRDDDDD.
Beautiful pictures William!
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Maclura pomifera, commonly known as the Osage orange, horse apple, hedge, or hedge apple tree is a small deciduous tree or large shrub, typically growing to 8 to 15 metres (30–50 ft) tall.
i believe long bows were made from the wood