Head'em up! Move'em out! Sorry...Anytime someone says rawhide, I can't resist.
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Jawge
I hope you you are making the whip crack noise when you say that
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@ Clint:-
Nice experiment.
I can see why thin rings will hold up better. The elongation between adjacent tough* rings is very little if they are close together. With a fat ring there will be a lot of shear force between each tough ring and the soft* ring will gust give up.
* I can never remember which is early growth and which is late... so I'll just call 'em tough and soft
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When I'm explaining what Osage is like to folk whove never worked it, I say it's like alternate rings of cast iron and chalk
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