Osage question

[ProArcher]

One of the people in our archery has come across some Osage Orange a 6 1/2 foot x about 10 inch log and a 40 inch x 5 inch log. I would like to know a good offer to make on it. He wants one stave out it but sell the rest.
   
 
 
 

[bigcountry]

Looks like good stuff.  You can't really tell much until you split it.  I would offer up to 150 dollars.    Should be able to get 5 good staves or more.  Rings look good.

[ProArcher]

Thanks bigcountry

[Eric Krewson]

I wouldn't be as generous. The log is crooked, will be hard to split staves out of, has a big painted scar that might be bulldozer damage and isn't that big. $30 and the best stave to the owner would be my max for this wood.

[ProArcher]

Thanks Eric that sounds more like it.
How abuot thne shorter smaller dia. for a takedown or lams?

[vanislebowyer]

why not get him to bust it into staves himself and see what you want from what you find?

[John Scifres]

The vast majority of osage isn't bow wood.  No way of telling if that is until you split and take a closer look.  There may be staves opposite that painted spot which looks like it might have been pushed over.  That's not good because it causes a lot of internal damage.  There are probably billets in a lot of it but they are much easier to find and therefore worth less.  I agree with Eric on the offer.  It's worth $30 just to find out but not much more.

[Dano]

Why I wouldn't give $10 for the whole mess.      

[ProArcher]

Thanks all
The reason he dose not split it he dose not have the tools and I do.
 As for the painted spot that is where it was cut from the upper part of the tree. In the second picture you can see a section of the base it was cut 2 feet up from the ground (stump was over 2 feet in Dia.)And the long log with the painted spot was from "about 21 feet up the trunk" I would say that the guy that cut it did not cut a break line before he topped it and ripped the bark and a little meat from the trunk. Now I can only go by hear say as I was not there when it was cut. The guy is a friend so I hope he would not lead me astray