Osage overload

Saw an ad on FB marketplace for free wood including Osage orange. Replied and headed out there yesterday morning. I was the first in a line of people looking to take some or all of it. Cut a truck load and told the owners I’d be back with a trailer for as many more loads as they would save for me. Sounds like someone with a log truck was wanting to take it all. Traded some fresh walleye for being able to cut wood and I think that saved me a couple more loads of wood even with others wanting to take it all.

Here’s the one pile I was working on. Hardly made a dent in the pile. It was every bit of 7 feet tall. They had two more piles this size on the property.

There were 3 other people who showed up while I was cutting.

 

Did you go back yesterday? Today?

I hope you get all you can handle

 

I only had time cut the one load yesterday. Planning to go back today or early this week.

 

Better make it snappy. Brad just fired up his truck.

 

Nice! Looks worthy of a sick day, or two. Hoard on!!

 

That last picture of the wood in the truck is awesome. No osage here. Grab all you can.

 

Nice score and great call on the walleye. Get all of that yellow gold that you can.

 

Nice trade and score, they'll remember you.

 

Im jealous cutting some Osage is on my bucket list. Nice saw too.

 

Since there's no Osage Orange in our part of the country I'm very curious why it is sought after and is it also a wood to use with a smoker? Does it have any other uses? Thanks!

 

Thank you, I thought I recalled hearing Osage Orange being used for fencing but wasn't sure. Some folks used Locust for fence posts too, correct? Would Osage mill out nice or be able to be run as moulding? Is it native to US? Apologies for all of the questions

 

Well, went back today and cut another load. Much to my disappointment both of the other big piles were gone already. There was just enough left to fill my truck. Thankful that I was able to get what I got and the property owners made sure at least one more load was left for me. Didn’t take pictures today cause it was raining off and on.

 

Mike13 there is no such thing as Osage overload, get all you can get. It’s more valuable around here for fence posts but there is usually plenty left for firewood after the posts are cut out.

JD Guy
As far as milling goes it makes great lumber & would probably make nice trim & molding also.
Hedgerow has milled some of it for lumber.

 

I grew up cutting hedge in rural Missouri. Almost all the hedgerows planted on the 1920s are gone now. Pushed out to make bigger farms and a few more feet of tilled ground. My grandfather always said we would have another dust bowl if people kept cutting the tree lines down. He passed away before it happened. He lived through one.

Grandpa built all the fence on the home place after he bought it when he returned from WW2. Hedge and locust posts. We started replacing some of them 60 years later. I've built a lot of fence with hedge 20+ years ago and all the posts are fine. I burn some old posts as firewood that are 60 years old. Still very sound firewood for only the coldest nights.

I have a buddy in TN that does wood working. I brought him 6 ft piece of hedge 10" in diameter that's been cut for years. He says it saws tuff but mills on a CNC router well and the surface looks like it is waxed. I guess the old sap drys to a waxy consistency. Very nice yellow to burn orange wood color.

 

That is some nice logs. Bet that was a heavy load. Glad you were able to get a couple loads.

 

That is SWEET. Idve been all over that. None around these parts. Kind of a pain with that much when all you can take is a PU at a time. Been there, done that.