City dweller osage find & Question

[George Tsoukalas]

Nice find! Jawge

[bradsmith2010]

you can never have too many wedges or staves,, right

[bentstick54]

Looks like some good Osage there. Nice rings. Wedges are cheap and can't have too many.

[Jim Davis]

I use wooden wedges too. But be aware: Hard dried Osage wedges are pretty slippery and like to JUMP out of a log when you hit them.

Jim Davis

[Stick Bender]

I ordered 2 more metal ones and I will make up a few wood ones also, what amazed me about osage when cutting it ,is the amount of moister it is still holding in the middle of February. & I put a brand new chain on the Still saw before cutting & brought a extra saw glad I did for a rank ameture  like me I got the saw stuck a couple of times & the spare saw came in handy but hunting down & cutting your own hedge is a lot of fun felt like a kid on Xmas !

[Dances with squirrels]

That nice vertical length above looks like it has a lot of twist in it.

[Stick Bender]

Yes it does, noticed that also but those shorter billet sections look fairly strait most of what I got out of this tree was shorter billets or peaces for sinew but got 2 longer ones also !

[osage outlaw]

I ordered 2 more metal ones and I will make up a few wood ones also, what amazed me about osage when cutting it ,is the amount of moister it is still holding in the middle of February. & I put a brand new chain on the Still saw before cutting & brought a extra saw glad I did for a rank ameture  like me I got the saw stuck a couple of times & the spare saw came in handy but hunting down & cutting your own hedge is a lot of fun felt like a kid on Xmas !

Just about any time of the year I've cut osage I will see sap flowing out of it.  Taking a second saw is a good idea.  The way osage grows it's hard to judge which way the tension is when you cut it.  I get saws stuck pretty often, even on trees that have fallen already.  Some times I'm able to use my splitting wedges to free it up.