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[+clearpath]

Here in Missouri the Amish and Mennonite make knitting needles and croceut hooks from them. Once the dry out they are as hard as iron and after a little use they become as smooth as glass. Squirrels will eat all the fruit away in a couple of weeks. Also the male tree doesn't have thorns or fruit.

Yeah, who would have guessed that in the tree world, the females have the balls ...

[+sept1c_tank]

Osage wood, as pointed out earlier, is bright orange. It is very, very tough wood (try to break a piece sometime) and makes for an excellent campfire. I believe it is named for the Osage indian nation.

 

They are quite common in Indiana; I remember building a tree house in an Osage tree way back in the early 50s.

[+Fergus]

If you go to a store that sells osage wood you will find it is expensive. I offen save any logs I cut at work for friends who do woodworking. However, the trees do not get very big, and tend not to grow straight. This makes it hard to get logs that one can make boards out of.

[+Team Snoopy]

Our one grocery store sells these hedge balls. I tried putting some in my house, but they didn't work. I guess they're not good with box elder and lady bugs, because they kept coming in and even sitting on the balls.

[+webscouter.]

They also float. My son use to throw them at the D$@#$^M geese in our pond. We would have 20 or 30 floating in the pond.