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Offline BowEd

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Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« on: July 08, 2013, 11:22:39 am »
I'm gonna open up a little can of worms and ask how many different types of wood per state you've got in your stash.There is different kinds out there but not in my stash.
Here's mine:All of these are local wood except the winged elm.I'm in Iowa.
Osage
Hickory
Black Locust
Ironwood
Elm[Red&Winged]
Cherry
Kenticky Coffee Tree
Yew[Irish]

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2013, 11:25:40 am »
Osage
Osage
Osage
Hickory
Elms
yew
crepe mertyl
ocean spray
erc
HHB
ash
sassafras
buckthorn
mulberry
black locust

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2013, 11:29:51 am »
No fair stating one more than once.PD.
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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2013, 11:32:42 am »
How many are local wood PD?
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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2013, 11:32:48 am »
Yew
Elder
Hawthorn
Laburnum
Maple
Hornbeam
Ash
must be some Hazel in there somewhere, else I'll pop over the woods and cut some ;)
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Offline autologus

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2013, 11:33:30 am »
Not much, but I do have some:

Hickory
Mulberry
Black Locust
ERC

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2013, 11:35:44 am »
Arkansas has got a lot of good wood.
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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #7 on: July 08, 2013, 11:39:57 am »
I've got to admit though that the largest count on my staves is osage PD.
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Offline TacticalFate

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #8 on: July 08, 2013, 11:40:16 am »
Lots of buckthorn
black locust
HHB
white ash

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #9 on: July 08, 2013, 11:42:26 am »
Maybe some trades through the mail can be gotten from this ya never know.
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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #10 on: July 08, 2013, 11:45:18 am »
Ash/Hickory/Hackberry/Winged elm/Black Walnut/ERC//Black Locus /Osage. All off my farm except the Osage,not a stick of it on my place.  :) I trade for it or cut it up on the KY. line.  :) I also have Yew/ Vine maple/maple and assorted outher wood in my stash but not from around me. :)
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Offline Ed Brooks

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #11 on: July 08, 2013, 11:46:32 am »
yew
ocean spray (iron wood)
vine maple
Ly lack
 
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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #12 on: July 08, 2013, 11:47:26 am »
Ones' that are local that I don't have here in the shed are:
Mulberry
Ash
Hackberry
ERC
Sycamore
I think that's about 15 or so different kinds here in Iowa and I'm sure I'm forgetting a few maybe.
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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #13 on: July 08, 2013, 11:48:58 am »
Let's see...I have some OSAGE...more OSAGE...n then another pile of OSAGE...and....

Black locust
Yew
Eastern Hophornbeam
Flowering Dogwood
White Oak
Red Oak
White Ash
Hickory
European Buckthorn
Mulberry
Sassafras
Mountain Laurel
Downy Serviceberry
Crepe Myrtle
Chokecherry
 Eastern Red Cedar
Elm
Hackberry
Black Walnut

N I'm sure im forgetting at least one(n maybe a couple more) as I'm not home right now..and I know I've used other woods that are not on that list,I just don't have em in stock right now....yeah....I'm an admitted wood whore  >:D

Did I forget to mention OSAGE ;) ;D
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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #14 on: July 08, 2013, 11:49:29 am »
We've got lilac and honeysuckle too if you can find one big enough.
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