A friend of mine took me to a farmer's land that had no fense, but the crops grew right up next to a grove of trees that has lots of osage orange. He knows the farmer and was given permission to take all we want. Came home with half a truck load. Would have grabbed more but ran out of sealer.
One piece we cut was from a stump where the guy had cut a very large osage orange down to about 30" or so. From that I plan to make an end table. About 24" dia. That was just part of the entire top of the stump.
I love that stuff. One of my favorite woods.
When I learn how to turn like the majority on here I may make my friend the urn he asked me to turn for him.
I hope he sticks around for a few more years. Still using a HF 10x18 (while waiting for a 10% discount from Grizzly), focusing in tool grinding ( and making bowls).
That's the second time he located an unlimited supply of one species, the first being a huge willow tree that fell in his yard. He pushed it up and over a hill so he would not have to burn it, so, I get the whole tree if I want.
Wish I had more friends like him, but then I'd run out of room to store it.
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