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Offline gstoneberg

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Re: Anybody been out cutting bow wood recently?
« Reply #15 on: July 23, 2011, 05:29:39 pm »
A friend of mine was out playing golf last week, very hot.  He got sunstroke and died on the way to the hospital.  He was 73, which used to seem real old to me and now ... not so much.  Be smart out there in this heat.

George
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Offline toomanyknots

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Re: Anybody been out cutting bow wood recently?
« Reply #16 on: July 23, 2011, 06:23:13 pm »
Man, I'm really sorry to hear that george.
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"The way of heaven is like the bending of a bow-
 the upper part is pressed down,
 the lower part is raised up,
 the part that has too much is reduced,
 the part that has too little is increased."

- Tao Te Ching, 77, A new translation by Victor H. Mair

Offline lowell

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Re: Anybody been out cutting bow wood recently?
« Reply #17 on: July 23, 2011, 06:49:02 pm »
Been hot here too but expect it to break soon.

  Got in the mood to cut yesterday when I was working for some people where I have cut osage years ago.  Would like to look the trees over again more closely and try to find maybe some snakey staves or better straight ones as I think I now know more what to look for.  They have fence row after fence row of osage!!! :)

 Also they have a wet area where the trees are groing and hope for maybe thicker rings??

 I never take the bark off right away...I leave it on till it is dry and I'm ready to make a bow!!
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