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Title: This was worth the gas.
Post by: ffdiggs on May 19, 2017, 03:10:00 PM: Took a little trip this week and it turned out pretty good. Scored 22 osage logs, one stave and one set of billets. Also scored 150 port orford cedar shafts and a few other odds and ends including a Asbell Bighorn Ram Hunter longbow that was like new.. (http://i928.photobucket.com/albums/ad129/wdigby71/IMG_2730_zpsdeeqfi7v.jpg) (http://s928.photobucket.com/user/wdigby71/media/IMG_2730_zpsdeeqfi7v.jpg.html) (http://i928.photobucket.com/albums/ad129/wdigby71/IMG_3558_zpsuj9ybjaf.jpg) (http://s928.photobucket.com/user/wdigby71/media/IMG_3558_zpsuj9ybjaf.jpg.html)
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Post by: Crooked Stic on May 19, 2017, 04:55:00 PM: Nice got them all sealed up?
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Post by: BMorv on May 19, 2017, 05:12:00 PM: Wow. I picked up 2 limbs last week after a big storm passed through, and I thought I was lucky.
I'm jealous.
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Post by: Roy from Pa on May 19, 2017, 06:26:00 PM: I'm surprised that dodge could haul that much weight. LOL

But that's a great load of Osage.

Congrats.
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Post by: Bvas on May 19, 2017, 07:07:00 PM: Nice haul!!!
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Post by: mwosborn on May 19, 2017, 08:28:00 PM: Looks like a good trip! Have to agree with Roy on the Dodge! :D
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Post by: Pat B on May 19, 2017, 08:40:00 PM: Nice haul of osage. Some of it looks well aged already.
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Post by: Mad Max on May 19, 2017, 09:21:00 PM: Watch out Roy, no drooling.
You are counting the lams in those logs
:eek:
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Post by: ffdiggs on May 20, 2017, 12:38:00 AM
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Post by: ffdiggs on May 20, 2017, 09:56:00 AM: Drove from Ohio to Missouri then Kansas for it, the guy was selling it as fence post. Hey Roy I know what you mean, I'm a chevy guy myself. Borrowed the truck and trailer for he trip. Have some good friends. But it hauled it like it wasn't even back there.
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Post by: Roy from Pa on May 20, 2017, 03:52:00 PM: Good thing ya took the Dodge then. Chevy would have never hauled it.. :)
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Post by: kennym on May 20, 2017, 04:11:00 PM: I had to take my Chevy to the doctor.....
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Post by: kennym on May 20, 2017, 07:17:00 PM: Wait for it........

It had a Toyota stuck right in the air cleaner and was plugged up. Took that TRD out and pitched in the trash can and ol Chev was good as new.
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Post by: ffdiggs on May 20, 2017, 09:29:00 PM: My truck has 209000 miles on it. Love my GM products, The Dodge is just all set up for pulling and better fuel mileage than my 1998 pickup. No new truck in my future until I retire.
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Post by: Mad Max on May 20, 2017, 10:07:00 PM: 202000 On my GMC
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Post by: Roy from Pa on May 21, 2017, 04:49:00 AM: LOL Kenny..
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Post by: Crooked Stic on May 21, 2017, 05:52:00 PM: Only good thing about Dodge is you can get a Cummins in it. Then the engine outlasts the truck.
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Post by: scrub-buster on May 21, 2017, 06:18:00 PM: Nice haul!
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Post by: ffdiggs on May 21, 2017, 09:29:00 PM: need to start splitting it this week, gonna be busy. But it is all sealed up and sprayed for bugs so I don't have to rush, but it is easier to move in stave form than its current state.
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Post by: George Tsoukalas on May 22, 2017, 09:50:00 AM: Well done! Looks like some good osage there. Jawge
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Post by: RAU on May 24, 2017, 12:39:00 PM: That's an awesome haul. The way ive been building lately (1 or 2 a year) that would last my lifetime!
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Post by: Eric Krewson on May 25, 2017, 11:13:00 AM: One of my friends heard about an osage fence post dealer in Cortland Al. He went to the guys place and found a barn full of nice osage fence posts, all sizes.

Everything looked great, prices were cheap, that is until he noticed all the yellow sawdust falling out of the bottom of the "fence posts" everywhere.

Powder post beetles had made sure the fence posts remained fence posts and not bows.
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Post by: ffdiggs on May 25, 2017, 11:18:00 PM: Started splitting the smaller logs for billets, so far so good. Only had a two quaters that will end up as fire wood. Eric Most of the trees were cut in the last month or two, and just under half of them we cut fresh that day, so hopefully I won't have any bug issues, but just to be sure I sprayed them pretty good with some bug and pest spray I had around the house. Hopefully if there are any bugs they don't get past the sap wood.
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Post by: ffdiggs on May 25, 2017, 11:20:00 PM: I actually have another guy I may be looking into getting some logs from, plus my Dad in Missouri has a hunting buddy that let me cut a couple and told me to come back any time and cut all I want, plus he said he would start saving me copper head skins when ever he kills one. So we'll see how everything pans out.