Useful Osage Orange

 I've been collecting the balls dropped from my trees.

Left in buckets over the winter, the fruit renders down into a slurry.

This slurry can eventually be poured into a shallow trench to get new seedlings.

I spotted the original fruit beside the road in town, stopped and grabbed a few.

I originally hoped to use them as posts.

They're kinda slow-growing here in the sand.

The small-diameter trunks are useful at my house.

Here's an axe with a new handle.

Buncha tool handles previously posted last January.

Mulberry makes a faster-growing post.

This mulberry log has been air-curing for a few months, hopefully be light enough to deal with soon.

When I install them fresh, it's a job, they're heavy as anything.