We always called them Monkey Ball trees.

Years ago we had some old fence posts still in the ground along the road at one of our farms when I was a kid. The place used to be a horse farm, the posts were osage and my Dad said they were 100 years old. We used to pull them and use them from time to time...they had to be drilled to get a fence staple into them.

A few years ago I was telling a friend of mine about them and he asked if there were still any there, I told him yes along the woods. I pulled one for him and he made me a pair of duck&goose calls out of it for me.


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