Speaking of Osage Orange!

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Gary

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While driving home today I noticed a new construction site about 3 miles away. It's the site of a new highschool to be built. There were three piles of wood mulch about 50-60 feet high and bright yellow!

It was an 40-acre tract, and they had bulldozed down about a mile of section line that was all osage orange (some of it really big trees). They brought in a commercial grinder/shredder and made bark mulch of it all...lot of pen blanks in there.:(
 
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They did the same thing with some neat cherry and osage orange around me. I asked if I could harvest some of it and they said they couldn't do that - insurance liability or something. What a waste of wood! Garbage trees make mulch!!!

Still that's a lot of turning blanks!!!
 

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Originally posted by tipusnr
<br />They did the same thing with some neat cherry and osage orange around me. I asked if I could harvest some of it and they said they couldn't do that - insurance liability or something. What a waste of wood! Garbage trees make mulch!!!

Still that's a lot of turning blanks!!!

Yep...I inquired too. They wouldn't even let me walk on the site, much less try to reclaim some limbs.
 

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Don't be to hard on yourself guys it happen here to, they don't want anyone to walk on the cuting area like you say public liability insurance if I want some logs I have to barter them with carton of beer[8)], shame sometime to see all those trees goin in smoke[:(][xx(]

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One word......midnight.
Same thinkg happened down my street for a condo project. I went overthere on two separate nights with my chainsaw and pickup and hauled away several large sections of walnut, maple burl and aramatic cedar.
 

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We have same thing, machine comes in, grabs tree, cuts tree, feeds tree into Monster Chipper... We are losing a lot of forested areas...[:0]

Huge mountains of bark and tree chips...[xx(]
 

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In Arkansas, we have a law that says if you are on someone else's land for recreational purposes and get injured, the landowner is free from liability. example: friend asks you over for a picnic, you trip on a rock and get hurt, he will not be financing your early retirement. I think it is a good law. Probably would apply to picking up logs for woodworking hobby. (that's just a laymans' guess)





Originally posted by Gary
<br />You are lucky...around here it is an insurance issue, so they say.
 
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