Where can I buy a load of osage orange

[Dave5454]

I am in West Virginia. Does anyone know the closest place I could travel to buy a load? Contact info would be helpful. Thanks!

 

[Dr. Hackemoff]

I am in West Virginia. Does anyone know the closest place I could travel to buy a load? Contact info would be helpful. Thanks!

Heavy stuff...are you planning on burning it, or ballasting your house for the tornado or hurricane season?

Sorry I can't help you on the delivery tho...

 

[Dave5454]

Need osage orange for workshops

I am developing a fuelwood workshop for farmers and homeowners and would like to get some osage orange and burn side by side with other less dense woods.

 

[Forest Steward]

Well osage orange doesn't reproduce very readily, so you might be better off trying to get something a little more common. I'm not sure what is common in your forests, but something like hop hornbeam (ironwood), musclewood or locust would be a fairly comprable substitute.

 

[JeffHK454]

I personally think that Mulberry is very similar in weight per cord before/after seasoning , sawing/splitting and BTU output.

It's hard on a bar/chain but worth the work for the excellent heat it puts out!

Jeff

 

[Dave5454]

Good species suggestions

Ironwood, musclewood, and mulberry are all great suggestions as substitutes for osage orange. White mulberry is on many exotics lists and that might be one nice reason for cutting it....

 

[begleytree]

dang. too bad you didn't ask earlier this year. I dumped a whole (big SOB) double leadered Osage over the hill.
Some of the big stuff is still close to the top on one end of my dump....
outside portsmouth, Oh. you come get, you can have.
-Ralph

 

[Splunk]

I have about three cords cut and split but it might be a little farther than you are willing to go.

 

[Dave5454]

A little far

It would be great to travel to OK, might pick up a nice whitetail on the way...but it is a bit too far...was hoping to find some in an adjacent state...how is osage for burning? Some have suggested it may be too dense?

 

[Splunk]

Osage is in my opinion the best to burn. However it is not my favorite to cut, it is a thorny mess. After this summers battle with the Osage I might go back to Oak and Pecan.

 

[cord arrow]

PM'ed ya, Ralph.....

 

[046]

yikes!!! can't imagine the fun cutting osage orange.

woods are full of it in Pawhuska, where I hunt deer. don't want to get too close. serious thorns will get ya...