Wiggly Osage harvest

[scrub-buster]

I needed to cut some osage for the classic and today seemed like the perfect day, low 50's and sunny.  It has been 2 years since the last time I cut any.  I picked out a leaning tree that had a few straight areas in it.  I got 3 logs, a billet length piece, and two nice looking limbs.  On a couple of pieces I can see a wavy pattern to the bark so I hope the grain of the wood is the same.  I also looked around and cut some small but ancient looking trees.  They are hard as a rock and have the dark color to them.  I think the trees died a long time ago and they have just been aging gracefully.  I'm trying to study the trees to learn what the wood is going to be like inside.  

 

I don't know if you can see the wavy bark pattern in this picture.  Sometimes things just don't show up in a photo.

 

The two pieces on the left are the old trees.  The one has rings like Yew.

 


After I got all those cut and sealed my Dad came home and helped me drag them out with his utility truck.  Everything went so easy and quick that we decided to cut one more log out of a tree that fell across one of our trails.  We looked it over and decided to undercut it so it wouldn't pinch the saw.  We misread the tree and quickly had the saw stuck.  It took us an hour and a half to get that thing loose.  I think we were on plan D by the time we got it out.  After that we cut that one section free and headed for the house.

I'm not sure a 14" homelite is intended to cut some of the things I tackle with it.  Maybe next year Santa will bring me a bigger saw.

 


My Dad let me store them in his garage for the next couple of months.

 

[fujimo]

get the bark off'n the wavey one- lets see it!!!!

[Buxndiverdux]

Nice!

[Pat B]

That wavy stuff looks promising.

[Pat B]

Heck, it all looks good, Clint!

[mwosborn]

Nice harvest Scrub.  Love the smell of fresh cut wood!

[Osagetree]

[TimBoA]

Nice haul!  Your Dad may have a bit of trouble backing his car out for the next couple of months..

[David Flanrey]

Scrub,
I am sooooo jealous.  We have almost no osage very close.  That wavey log looks wicked!  Those are some huge rings.  

I better stop looking.  

[scrub-buster]

Originally posted by TimBoA:
Nice haul!  Your Dad may have a bit of trouble backing his car out for the next couple of months..

That car hasn't moved in 15 years.  The license plate is from 1998.  I don't think he will be driving it any time soon.

[Black Mockingbird]

Did ya write my name on that log yet        

[scrub-buster]

IT'S WIGGLY!!!

I split the short piece in half to see if the bark was telling the truth.  It only took me a few swings of the hammer to get my answer.  I honestly didn't notice the bark was like that until after I had cut it.  When I picked out the tree I made sure it wasn't twisted but never noticed the wiggly pattern.

[Troy D. Breeding]

Oh yea!!! Those are going to be some nice snakie staves.

[Osagetree]

That is wild ~~~~~~~~~~~

[scrub-buster]

Its a new one for me Joe.  I have never split any wood like it.

[Roy from Pa]

Clint ya gonna be home tomorrow? I'm on my way:) Nice sage dude.

[scrub-buster]

I'll be home and well armed Roy    

[Roy from Pa]

Shucks. Well when do ya gotta work?

[Black Mockingbird]

You better lock your doors....you better hide that where no one else can find it....cause you need to keep that safe from folks like me  

[2treks]

Another 20-30 years and it will look like this.

Mine is ruff now but a few staves and billets have been had.

Yours is sweet looking Scrub.