Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Josh B on July 06, 2013, 03:54:40 pm
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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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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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That's one way to leave it alone long enough to cure out!
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Hey! Lose look great, for being on the ground so long. Bugs?
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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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Gotta love Osage
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Figure it's dry? ;) Nice haul!
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Wow great haul great story
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Man that looks Beautiful!!
:)
-gus
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Right on Josh! Nice rings.
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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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Man I bet those were heck on the chainsaw blade.
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That is a huge log! That piece you have your hand on looks mighty fine.
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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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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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It wasn't really lost, just misplaced for a while ;)
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It was hard on this fat man to get that much across! I was actually kinda relieved when I poked a hole in my boat. Ya, floating them isn't really an option, but if we don't get some rain soon the old republican is gonna get low enough that I can drag em out with my horse. The channels are only about 25 yds across now but still over my head. By the time I get all these down to staves, the river will probably only be 3 or 4 feet deep. If it doesn't rain, it'll only be knee deep by September. I'll probably try again then. Josh
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Josh if I was in Kansas I would haul those sweet babies out for yah. For a small piece of course ;)
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Nice haul,looks like some mighty fine Osage and well worth the trouble. :)
Pappy
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Cool josh... ;D ...at least if ya got hot ya could just jump in to cool off ;)
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Man oh man that is a nice haul of wood.Your earning them that's for sure.Lots of belly splits I'd say with all of the checking going on.The story of these is far from over.No sense in letting them go to waste though.Why is it the nicer logs get into them situations.
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Ed-those small checks don't go to far(I hope!) That end cut is the exposed end of the log. I cut a 2 inch slab off to expose the rings better. The other end of those quarters don't have those small checks.
Bryce- if you come down to KS, you better bring a one ton dually to haul home the Osage I'd send home with you!
I got pretty lucky with this stuff. There were ant colonies in the logs, so no borer damage at all. If it hadn't been for them, I doubt there would have been anything salvageable. Josh
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I got pretty lucky with this stuff. There were ant colonies in the logs, so no borer damage at all. If it hadn't been for them, I doubt there would have been anything salvageable. Josh
I cut a live osage once that already an ant colony living in a split at the base of it. You even have bow from that tree. ;)
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Good haul Josh ... can't wait to see what you do with it 8)