Small wood haul

[Danzn Bar]

Patrick
It was the chainsaw from hell as far as I was concerned, had it for many years....Clint did such a great job on the last saws he worked on I though he could work his magic on this one......he still hasn't given up but that saw is cursed!!!
DBar

[Mounter]

Please excuse the dumb question, but is there an easy way to tell tight ringed osage before you cut it? i'm firing up the saw tomorrow..

I can usually tell what kind of rings a tree will have by judging the bark.  There is a difference between young looking bark and old looking bark.  At least that is my observations for the trees on my property.  I did a post about reading the bark a while back.  Here is a link to page 2 where I have some pictures of the difference in bark.
Awesome! I've cut, burned,cleared and just thrown away Osage pretty much forever, but I can't recall seeing one like that 4th and 5th pic. Very unusual! I will be paying a lot more attention in the future. Thanks for the info!

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,49976.15.html

[Mounter]

Somehow my post got mixed with yours...(new guy?) lol. Thanks for the info!

[dylanholderman]

whooo i'm happy to see you found some honeysuckle that was worth cutting
keep a close eye on it though, this time of year it can check down to the pith over the coarse of a warm afternoon
if it starts too check remove the bark and a small amount of wood from the belly side to get it under control

[lebhuntfish]

Patrick
It was the chainsaw from hell as far as I was concerned, had it for many years....Clint did such a great job on the last saws he worked on I though he could work his magic on this one......he still hasn't given up but that saw is cursed!!!
DBar

I hear ya,  my dad had an ancient McCulloch that we would take turns pulling until it started. Great running saw once it got running.
He gave it to me a few years ago. I took it apart and found a crack in a carburetor gasket. Made a new one out of an old cereal box.  Put a new plug in it and it fired and ran on the second pull. 

Patrick

[osage outlaw]

I'll see what I can do with the saw Patrick.  Thanks.

Here is a larger piece of that honeysuckle.  It would make some nice knife scales.

[DC]

That looks nice!  So here you are with a piece of wood you've never used before. How do you decide whether to do a heartwood/sapwood or all heartwood? That would look so nice as heartwood/sapwood, kind of like yew on steroids.

[missilemaster]

Nice saplings!

[joachimM]

And it looks like the chain could use some sharpening, looking at the saw marks on the osage 

[JoJoDapyro]

And it looks like the chain could use some sharpening, looking at the saw marks on the osage 

The wood is bad, Send it to me, I'll even pay shipping! 

[osage outlaw]

And it looks like the chain could use some sharpening, looking at the saw marks on the osage 

The chain was sharp.  A dull chain won't cut osage.  The tree hung up on the tree next to it.  It tool some careful sawing to cut the final bit of wood to get it loose.  Osage trees almost never fall over clean when you cut them.