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Bows / Re: Big Osage tree
« Last post by Eric Krewson on November 25, 2025, 09:32:38 am »I make the first split on the bigger osage logs with a chainsaw, after you get them in half the rest splits with wedges pretty easily. You may loose a little wood that crosses a wavy grain at the chainsaw split but spending 10 minutes apposed to up to an hour or more or so pounding wedges always looked like a fair tradeoff to me.
I always had access to a lot of osage and only split staves for myself to use so a very small loss didn't matter. I always made the chain saw split through the worst part of the log that had tight rings and wind shakes so I wouldn't be able to split the same area with wedges and sledge hammer and gain much in the way of useable wood.
I always had access to a lot of osage and only split staves for myself to use so a very small loss didn't matter. I always made the chain saw split through the worst part of the log that had tight rings and wind shakes so I wouldn't be able to split the same area with wedges and sledge hammer and gain much in the way of useable wood.
Bob.
I saw a video where Clay Hayes cooked up a bobcat he shot and he said it was pretty good. I think I'd have to be pretty hungry.