question about cutting osage

[TroyH]

Got access to cut some good looking osage tomorrow.  The only problem is, I've got to squeeze it into my schedule and won't have time (probably) to get it split immediately.  I can seal the ends, but will it be ok to leave it to split until the next day?  I could put it in the garage out of the sun, and that might help.  What do you think?

[John Scifres]

That will be fine.  I leave logs whole all the time.  I have a couple logs that have been cut for 12 years under my bench.  I'm saving them for something special when I'm 100 years old  

Really, I'm leaving them for the kids as their inheritance.  I expect a buildalong in 50 years from my grandkids using one of them.

[Bob Barnes]

John is right...but if you decide to leave them whole for very long at all...or even if you split them, be sure to spray some insecticide on them...I lost a lot of great osage before I learned my lesson...
Bob

[DCM]

I like to split a log at least once with a couple of week.  Then it can go indefinately.  But I've had a few check severly, the smaller ones more so it's seems, if left whole for say a year or more in dry environment (attic of my shop).