It’s a slow growing long lived tree with an avg lifespan of 3-400 yrs. I think that’s why it’s not a common get for me. I can see hundreds of small beech in the woods at this time of year and wonder where the big parent trees are. I don’t remember ever seeing a dead beech.
I never cut beech, but Budweiser is brewed using beech somewhere in the process. My favorite lately is this stuff, because it's pretty. It cuts fine until you hit the voids or dry, hard little limbs, or bark..... or hidden wire. Here's the unfinished European mount of one of the whitetail I harvested this year. I wanted to make a board to mount it, so I cut some slabs. The first pic is dry and sanded, the second is (the backside) after a coat of Truoil. I plan to polyurethane after a couple coats, but idk what I'm doing, help is appreciated. This is the noodles cos I know yall like noodles.
Boisdarc, also known as Osage Orange. Sorry oldspark , the pictures may have fooled you into mistaking it for mulberry.
Interesting, did not think osage got that big, the bark even looks like mulberry. Nice wood for sure.
I had posted a thread a few months back on similar looking wood and a few stated it looked like large mulberry and a few were convinced (myself included) that it was osage. Turned out to be mulberry. Osage not around here and mulberry is on the rare side.
Oh man.. I will have to take a few pictures of some old Boisdarc for you. I saw one the other day that had to be well over 36", I would bet closer to 48" trunk (if my mind isn't exagerating and fooling me). It was FAT. Most old hedge around here seems to be multi-trunk, 8- 10" trunks, some big trunks sort of oval 12x16", very irregular and gnarly limbed. I like a good fence corner post to be preeetty straight, maybe a little bowed in one direction, and 9' long so that 4' can be buried, and that can be hard to find with osage. Fresh cut, the wood and saw dust is a bright burnt yellow, and it fades to burnt orange, then dull brown over time.
Thats a big sum beech. Sorry guys, someone had to say it. What do you estimate the DBH to be Kevin in Ohio?
When Hurricane Ike's winds came through Ohio it took this trees top out. WE had no rain, just wind and it sheered it off. It was right at 5 ft in diameter. Top is on the other side of the truck. Here is just the top. 20 ft up it Y'd. One branch over 3 ft, the other 4 ft. We left the totem hoping it would still live, it didn't. Cut it up the next year and 18 cord from one tree. Tree was over 400 years old, sad to see as it was healthy and solid. Rare for a Beech. This sycamore is now the biggest tree on that farm.
It was the first 2 initials of your town. Didn’t want to type the whole thing in case you’d prefer keeping it private. I only know because I remember you telling me before. I live one town over
