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Offline Josh B

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long lost Osage rescued
« on: July 06, 2013, 03:54:40 pm »
I cut this on an island in the river fifteen years ago and figured on dragging it out with a four wheeler and trailer.  Before i got back to it , spring flood cut new channels down both sides of the island so I could no longer get to it.  A few weekends ago my oldest and I swam out there and stumbled on the logs.  They were in pretty good shape for laying on the ground all that time.   I decided to use the jonboat to retrieve them yesterday.  I got one 6 foot section of the trunk split into pieces small enough to put in the boat without sinking it and ferried them across.  On the next log, I got it split into quarters and carried to the riverbank.  While trying to load it into the boat I dropped it and tore a small hole in the boat floor.  End of rescue operations until I can weld up my boat.  Here is the trunk split up into fifths.  I have five times this much to recover yet, but the first bit looks promising!  Josh
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: long lost Osage rescued
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2013, 04:16:05 pm »
Nice haul Josh.  Never heard of anyone harvesting osage by boat before.  Looks like some good belly splits in that stuff.  Should be some good seasoned wood.
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Offline JW_Halverson

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« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2013, 04:23:17 pm »
That's one way to leave it alone long enough to cure out!
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Offline Bryce

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Re: long lost Osage rescued
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2013, 04:55:26 pm »
Hey! Lose look great, for being on the ground so long. Bugs?
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Offline lesken2011

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Re: long lost Osage rescued
« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2013, 06:17:15 pm »
Knowin you, Josh. I figured when the boat was damaged, you'd just swim across, tie all the rest of the osage together for a raft and float back across....or don't osage float?? ::)
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Offline Joec123able

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Re: long lost Osage rescued
« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2013, 06:41:58 pm »
Gotta love Osage
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Offline k-hat

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Re: long lost Osage rescued
« Reply #6 on: July 06, 2013, 07:48:59 pm »
Figure it's dry? ;)  Nice haul!
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Offline iowabow

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Re: long lost Osage rescued
« Reply #7 on: July 06, 2013, 08:31:32 pm »
Wow great haul great story
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Offline Gus

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Re: long lost Osage rescued
« Reply #8 on: July 06, 2013, 08:36:32 pm »
Man that looks Beautiful!!

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Offline DuBois

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Re: long lost Osage rescued
« Reply #9 on: July 06, 2013, 08:40:21 pm »
Right on Josh! Nice rings.
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Re: long lost Osage rescued
« Reply #10 on: July 06, 2013, 10:19:26 pm »
I bet you could just drag em across in the water instead of puttin them in the boat. They wouldn't take long to dry back out now that theyre seasoned.
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Offline JonW

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Re: long lost Osage rescued
« Reply #11 on: July 06, 2013, 11:10:49 pm »
Man I bet those were heck on the chainsaw blade.
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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: long lost Osage rescued
« Reply #12 on: July 07, 2013, 01:53:07 am »
That is a huge log!  That piece you have your hand on looks mighty fine. 
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Offline Ben M

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Re: long lost Osage rescued
« Reply #13 on: July 07, 2013, 02:04:27 am »
Great story with that wood! Maybe you'll have to name the first bow "Hard Earned". What river did it come out of?
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Offline Poggins

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Re: long lost Osage rescued
« Reply #14 on: July 07, 2013, 10:13:29 am »
I've thought about floating osage logs before , it don't float, they would be lighter in the water and if it isn't to deep you could wade across with them.
I've seen some nice logs in the Cimeron river , unlike other trees that float down river the osage sinks down into the sand and disappears over time. They are building a new bridge and pulled a large log jam out of their way but no osage in it.
I'm going to salvage some osage in a little while , they dozed up some on the river , won't have time to anything with it when I get home so I'm going to role it of into my pond to keep it from splitting all up and to keep the bugs at bay.
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