Osage/Hedge apple

I am looking at cutting some Osage trees Saturday. I have never cut any. What am I walking into? Is it gonna ruin my blade or is it easy to cut?

You better have extra chains for the saw, and they better be sharp...it is a extra hard, dense, heavy, wood.
As far as I know, Ironwood is the only thing harder.
This is why it makes such good fish cover....it will last a couple lifetimes.

I have never cut a full tree, I had 3 sources bring me truck loads of big limbs....it took me forever to try to hand saw them to size.
I broke out the chain saw and I dulled a chain. Then I started adding limbs to concrete, after they dried, I realized unlike other limbs these weighed alot more....some sets took 3 guys to drop....BUT IT WAS WORTH ALL THE WORK!

Wear good heavy clothes and boots. Them thorns are rough on your body. Wood is hard a iron but like Intimadator said will be there for your Grankids. Back home in Okla where I am from there are fence post I put up over 50 years ago still holding up barb wire fence.

If I see sparks fly I am gonna run for the truck. LOL

Should not take much weight to sink unless allowed to dry out .

Sounds like your talkin' 'bout Bois-de-Ark to me. Lifetime fence post.

Seriously, it is about THE very best natural cover material we ever used; it supports far more biological diversity than PVC but is extremely LONG lasting . An older gentleman showed me a set that he and his then teen aged son sank in CJ in the early 1980s...it was STILL there and visible on his sonar after 20+ years. His grandkids now fish it with him and his son...would suggest sinking ALL of it you can ! Just make certain you have several SHARP cutting chains; you WILL need them !

we cut lots of it here. It is not bad to cut if it is green. It will be very white sappy. It is when it dries out that it get hard, and makes sparks from your chain.

Yup !

If you are a woodworker this wood is great for wood mallets and chisel handles. I've made wood mauls, called "beetles" out of it and drove steel T posts in with it and it's still good! Cut it to shape while it's still green or prepare to do a LOT of sharpeneing! Not a whole lot of it in GA but thanks for the tip on making good cover for crappie with the limbs.