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Offline stringstretcher

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Osage distruction???Ofound the culprit)
« on: January 07, 2013, 09:27:43 am »
Can any one tell me what would do this kind of distruction to osage?  This trail is over 20 inches long, and at some points 3/4 inches wide.


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Offline MWirwicki

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Re: Osage distruction???
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2013, 09:30:35 am »
I've seen ants run out of my osage, when it looks like that.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Osage distruction???
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2013, 10:05:48 am »
I think the ants are just taking up residence in the vacated home of a GIANT wood grub.  Charlie, the grubs of wood sawyer beetles will make tunnels that big but I've never seen them in osage. They are typically in oaks and sometimes pines.
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Offline Poggins

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Re: Osage distruction???
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2013, 10:32:54 am »
I've seen worse , I cut a bunch of Osage out of a brush pile that had been setting fore five years , some of the logs had tunneled three to four inches in to the heartwood.
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Re: Osage distruction???
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2013, 11:18:30 am »
I found it,,,now what is it?



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Offline Pat B

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Re: Osage distruction???Ofound the culprit)
« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2013, 11:45:01 am »
Charlie, the grubs in osage are the larvae of a small wasp. That looks like it has metamorphosed into the wasp.
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Re: Osage distruction???Ofound the culprit)
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2013, 12:51:27 pm »
Thanks Pat.  At least now I know what it is...lol
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Re: Osage distruction???Ofound the culprit)
« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2013, 01:09:36 pm »
To bad a feller can't train one of them to chase a ring   ;D
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Re: Osage distruction???Ofound the culprit)
« Reply #8 on: January 07, 2013, 01:35:23 pm »
Hahahahaha! Good one coaster!
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Re: Osage distruction???Ofound the culprit)
« Reply #9 on: January 07, 2013, 03:13:52 pm »
You should eat it out of pure spite due to all the damage it did to your staves.
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Offline Haithabu

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Re: Osage distruction???Ofound the culprit)
« Reply #10 on: January 07, 2013, 03:25:42 pm »
Hahaha n1 one coaster!

Never seen worm holes this big before!
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Re: Osage distruction???Ofound the culprit)
« Reply #11 on: January 07, 2013, 04:44:56 pm »
Damn, Charlie. That sucks bro, hope it's not the stave your sending me:)
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Re: Osage distruction???Ofound the culprit)
« Reply #12 on: January 07, 2013, 05:21:36 pm »
It is going to be hard not to find worm holes in any of these stave Roy.  Pure heart sickening for sure.  But it was my fault so I have to live with it.
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Re: Osage distruction???Ofound the culprit)
« Reply #13 on: January 07, 2013, 05:34:47 pm »
sorry Charlie,that sucks.hopefully you can salvage some.good luck brother.
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Re: Osage distruction???Ofound the culprit)
« Reply #14 on: January 07, 2013, 05:48:13 pm »
Saw out billets, Charlie.
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