Re: OT - toughest wood to split

Posted by G-MAN on August 24, 2004 at 17:09:16 from (67.52.48.10):

In Reply to: Re: OT - toughest wood to split posted by buickanddeere on August 24, 2004 at 16:08:51:

aka Osage Orange, buickanddeere. It was in the back of my mind that they were the same tree as I think we've talked about it on YT before, but it's plain old Hedge and not Osage Orange where I come from. Darndest trees you'll ever see. It's planted in rows all over down home, and has spread out from there. You can cut it down to 4 inches of stump and it will grow back full trees ready to be cut for posts again within 40-50 years. Big nasty thorns and big green seedballs that cows occasionally chew on/choke to death on. Hard as a rock when you cut it green, and gets harder as it cures. From a good "straight" tree - they're usually pretty curvy and gnarly - you can get maybe 2 or 2 big corner posts and 6 or 7 good-sized line posts. I've never cut much of it myself, but there are guys down home that make a living cutting hedgeposts and building fence, and at every little town consignment sale, there's usually pile after pile of posts for sale.

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