[AT] osage

[charlie hill]

On the topic of briars, we have plenty here on the Carolina coast.
All kinds of vines with all kinds of briars from wild blackberries
(we call them briar berries) to a little stiff vine we call cat claw briars,
to big long vines sometimes 3/4" in diameter with thorns close to an
inch long and then probably the worst is what I call a pole vine.
It's a stalk that grows straight up about 6 feet high with little or no
branches.  It's very stiff and woody and the whole length of that stalk
is covered with something worse the biggest purple sand burs you ever
saw and oh yes we have sand burs, we call them sand spurs.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: charlie hill
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 4:06 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] osage

Could be Phil and I'm not sure it was Cecil.
I just vaguely remember the topic after Howard
mentioned the thorns.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: pga2 at BasicISP.net
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 3:09 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] osage

Sorta knowing where Cecil B. lives, I suspect the plant in question was some
form of the Locust.
Their thorns are almost as sharp as those of the Pyracantha, which are very
painful as well.
Don't ask me how I know. :o)

Phil in TX

--- charliehill at embarqmail.com wrote:

From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] osage
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 14:26:53 -0400

Howard it seems to me that we talked at length about that some years ago.
Someone, maybe Cecil Bearden, talked about buying used aircraft tires for
farm wagons, etc. to try and stop flat tires from them or some other vicious
plant.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Howard Weeks
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 2:11 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] osage

And the thorns are "deadly"!

Howard

On 7/29/2014 8:11 AM, Herb Metz wrote:
> In the Midwest, our 1940(?), half mile long shelterbelt used osage orange
> and russian olive as a hedge (the two outside rows of trees) because of
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