posted
Got to hate them buggers. I spray mine with bug spray if I can't get'em shucked when I cut'em.
-------------------- Striker stinger 58" 55# @ 28 any wood bow I pick off the rack. 2 Cor. 10:4 TGMM Family of The Bow MK, LLC Shareholder Proud Member of the Twister Twelve Posts: 3571 | From: Petersburg, Indiana | Registered: Aug 2009
| IP: Logged |
posted
Oh boy......I hate them buggers! They ate up some of my finest staves when I first started cutting Osage. You really gotta watch them staves close and even if you can't see any damage from the outside, they could still be hiding away on the inside. It's just a crap shoot whether or not they hatch inside a particular stave. I've had staves eaten up like swiss cheese and others unharmed that came from the same damn tree! How does this happen?
Good luck man, all you can do is start peeling......check for damage and move on to the next one and hope it's better. I feel your pain.
-------------------- ~Varitas Vos Liberabit~ John 8:32 ~Genesis 27:3~ Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most. Posts: 2867 | From: Missouri | Registered: Aug 2010
| IP: Logged |
posted
man that sucks. I have to agree with SEMO just keep scraping away to the good wood. Good luck
-------------------- "He never promised that the cross would not be heavy and the hill wouldn't be hard to climb" "I don't want to gain the whole world, and lose my soul"
10 Year Active Army Disabled Vet. Posts: 436 | From: West Virginia | Registered: Mar 2011
| IP: Logged |
posted
Bummer. You got to get under them. They like to tunnel sideways in the heartwood and they can only get so far before they mature and head back out.
I pretty much stopped storing osage with bark and sapwood on, even inside the shop. I bite the bullet and get 'em all chased to a ring and all the sides and bellies cleaned up. Easier to store and no risk of bugs that way. I've lost a heap of osage in the past to the li'l SOBs. I spent Sunday going through all my osage, some of which is 10 years old, and doing the same to it. I had one piece in there with bug damage.
-------------------- Take a kid hunting!
TGMM Family of the Bow Posts: 5963 | From: Indiana | Registered: May 2003
| IP: Logged |
posted
I have 2 logs that I split into 1/2's laying in my garage on the floor with barks still on them. Looks like I better heed the advice you folk's are sharing or I'll be really be disappointed on the material and time lost on my 1st harvest.
Thanks for sharing...
-------------------- ~ Lee
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?" — Aldo Leopold ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Posts: 249 | From: MI | Registered: Jan 2011
| IP: Logged |
posted
Well I finally got the bark and bugs out. Man that sap wood would have been a lot easer to work when it was green,I wont put up any more with the bark on it.
-------------------- Every one is ignorant its just on different subjects Posts: 316 | From: Columbus ,Ms | Registered: Jan 2006
| IP: Logged |
UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!
Printer-friendly view of this topic
![[biglaugh]](graemlins/xxc_laugh.gif)
