I salvaged a limb from an big osage that had washed into a creek. It had been in the creek for years as all the sapwood was gone and it had a lot of lengthwise cracks on the back of the stave. One stave has a crack that goes all the way through, I've dug down over an inch and I've run out of wood. The crack starts about 3 inches above the fades on the top limb and runs for about 5 inches then goes back together. Put superglue in it and hope for the best? Back it with something? Make a 41 inch bow for a kid? Firewood?
I still have to go back and get the rest, or at least as much as I want to carry up that steep ax, slippery bank. The tree is laying from bank to bank, about 20 feet above the water, the wood is nice and dry and ready to work. I have to balance on the log, cut a limb off, climb down to the creek bottom, cut the limb into a managable length, split it, then drag it up the bank. I'll probably do some this weekend.