Cutting Osage

[ranger 3]

I have found a spot to cut some Osage but I can't get to it with all the snow and frigid cold we have right now.

[don s]

are you married? do you have kids? be a man and send them for it! just kidding. that sucks. i have four bows going right now. i won't go in my shed where my pully system is because it's too damn cold.
          don

[Knawbone]

And your telling Ranger to be a man, but you won't use your shed. your a fellow N. Yorker, you should be used to it-haha   Im just kidding too

[don s]

i tried to be a man. i said to my wife, "wife, take my bow out to the shed and put it on the pully and let me know how the tiller looks". i can't repeat what she said.
                          don

[Dave Bowers]

How much snow yea got Ranger?

[ranger 3]

Some were around 20" and that's not counting the drifts.

[Dave Bowers]

DOHHHH!!! I would either do what Don said..lol or wait til the melt off.

[John Scifres]

I'm supposed to cut osage in Illinois the 19th.  Hope we get some warm weather before then to melt most of that and then a hard freeze so we don't have to deal with a mud bog.  I ain't picky  

[PEARL DRUMS]

You guys are going about it all wrong. I found a farmer in southern Indiana that is cutting 7 foot pieces all winter for me, then storing them in his barn unitl I can make the 10 hour drive for the logs. Now thats how you get osage out of the fields in winter! I plan on making at least a few bow's for him of course. If all goes well I will have enough osage for life......x 3. He and his brother burn it in their stoves to get rid of it! Ouch..........

[Roy from Pa]

Chris, tell him to coat the ends of the logs with elmers wood glue or paint to keep them from checking. This should be done as soon as the tree / log is cut.