Drying: This wood must be dried slowly to avoid checking. However, it does dry without much warp. End coating is essential. Treat 4/4 Osage orange like 8/4 red oak. Shed drying of green lumber ...

The tree’s popularity spread rapidly across the Midwest, with farmers planting Osage orange hedgerows to contain livestock before the advent of barbed wire. Its rot-resistant wood also found use ...