We are also flooding with osage around here. So far we have a 10ft dining table, some end tables, and enough hedge apples each year to go around the foundation of the house 10 times or so. If you are seriously considering cutting the trees down, check on ebay first, there may be a market for rare or exotic woods. They do make beautiful furniture if you can find one that's not hollow, very hard to do. There is a man that makes walking sticks and canes that comes to our annual festival, he buys blanks for a decent price, considering they are pretty easy to come by and take almost no time to collect around here. Posts are great and will last forever, we have made a few bows along the way as well. Did you know that you can make a hedge fence just by taking the hedge apples and laying them down wherever you want a fence. When they begin to grow, you will stake the top down in the ground and keep repeating year after year. They will shoot new shoots out the top of the bent over sapling. These fences are very dense, can be as tall as needed, and have some nasty thorns that will deter many animals. Just some food for thought.
