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yazoo:
first photo, selecting a tree with good wood, you are looking for healthy bark mostly found on younger trees,I have found the rusty colored loose bark, does not have good earlywood to latewood ratio, I may look at a hundred or more trees before I select one to cut,If I am not sure I will cut a small notch near the ground to check the ring quality before cutting,I here people say that there is no bad osage,, yes there is bad osage leave it in the woods,
 next photo felling the big osage, this tree had 5 cuts on it, this tree was 2 miles from the road ,I use a 4 wheeler to drag them out,

  bucking the tree into 6ft blocks, lot of bows in this osage

  my dad picking out a log for this demo,

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yazoo:
next photo tools needed, small starter wedge very sharp, up to 12 pound wedge on the end small ax and plenty of sledge hammers,
 next photo starting the small wedge always look for a natural crack to start the wedge in, dont force anything,
 
 next one continue splitting the log out to the end, I never saw kerfs, always follow the natural grain then spliting off the stave we will use

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Ryano:
Mike, how come your pictures are so small and crooked and upside down? lol... ::)
That log pile makes me sick, you truely are the osage monger..... :D
Looks like that log your busting has some twist to it.

Eric Krewson:
I like your log holder, never thought of that. Definately a back saver opposed to splitting a log on the ground.

yazoo:
the first time I ever started splitting wood, I raised the wood up to me, so I dont need to bend over,   ryan I am very lucky to have the rights to cut osage on about 1800 acres of which over half is osage, I just drive the back roads going door to door asking will you sell those osage trees,,sometimes they say yes ;D

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