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Offline wapiti1997

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Re: Red Osage
« Reply #15 on: February 28, 2016, 05:52:24 pm »
So, I'm still scraping bark and sapwood, I have another relatively clean 7' section to cut and am already up to 46 staves from this tree.

Here is a ring shot of one of the upper red staves.


And I put the boy to work, gotta earn diaper money....
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Offline Arrowbuster

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« Reply #16 on: February 28, 2016, 08:23:40 pm »
Nice find Joe, way to make the boy earn his keep.
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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: Red Osage
« Reply #17 on: February 28, 2016, 09:28:30 pm »
That is some good looking osage! Nice when you can find a bow wood tree with that kind of yield.

And I love to see the youngster working a drawknife! They just want to do what dad is doing.  :)
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Offline rkeltner

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Re: Red Osage
« Reply #18 on: February 29, 2016, 11:00:39 am »
I've been holding my tongue, but I have got to brag...it's not red, but the land owner that lets me hunt on his property also has lots of osage. he just cuts it, stacks it, and burns it like the farmers in Kansas. anyway, there's been this stack of osage logs there for as long as I've been hunting his land, and I finally decided to do something with it.  split maybe a forth of the stack, and I have over 50 staves! I'm going to be getting rid of a whole bunch of less than ideal wood soon!
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Offline rkeltner

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Re: Red Osage
« Reply #19 on: February 29, 2016, 11:02:17 am »
my apology, I just realized I may have hijacked this thread.
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Offline wapiti1997

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Re: Red Osage
« Reply #20 on: February 29, 2016, 07:03:17 pm »
:D Happiness is in having wood, hijacked is better than dead!
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Offline DC

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Re: Red Osage
« Reply #21 on: February 29, 2016, 07:07:32 pm »
Quote from: rkeltner on February 29, 2016, 11:02:17 am
my apology, I just realized I may have hijacked this thread.

Enthusiasm is hard to control ;D ;D ;D
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Offline rkeltner

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Re: Red Osage
« Reply #22 on: March 01, 2016, 02:08:58 pm »
you said that right! I'd been eyeballing those logs for better than ten years. i'll probably go back when it's dry enough to actually drive down to the pile and get the rest this spring or summer!
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