Burls

[Jeff]

I titled this thread so others could add to it if they get a chance.

Chet and I came across this beauty on a white pine driving around getting stuck in the wilds of da U.P.   Woulda loved to bring her homw along with the bigger white pines growing around it.




Looks bigger when You got an object next to it to give it scale. (I meant the DanG burl looks bigger Chet. >:( ;))

[EZ]

  I want it.
That is big, the burl that is. :D
EZ

[shopteacher]

Which one's the burl? ;D

[Fla._Deadheader]

  What's wrong wit them leaves ???  They got a white mold all over 'em???

[Jeff]

Thats ambrosia  ;)

[Fla._Deadheader]

  Oohhhhhhhhh, so THAT'S whatcha call it now, EH ??? ;D

[Larry]

Walnut burl.



I've educated several of my buddies about burls.  Got a call from one of them about 6 months ago about a big oak burl he wanted to show me.  The tree was on a city parkway so I told him no way are you going to get that one.  He showed up couple of months ago with the log on a trailer.  Said the city cut the tree for him and loaded it. ;D

[J_T]

Never bet on another man's burls :D :D

[Minnesota_boy]

The highest concentration of burls I've seen were on cottonwood in General Sibley Park on the south side of Bismarck ND.  I should have taken pictures.  I'll bet there were 10 or more visible at one time in the tenting area.  Maybe Mark M would wander down there and snap a few pictures if we asked him nicely.  

[Jeff]

Here is one I posted a long time ago on a thread called "a nose for trees"  The picture does not do it any justice. Its between the US127 and median U.S. 10 on ramp and not a real good place to get pictures.

https://forestryforum.com/cgi-bin/board/YaBB.pl?board=general;action=display;num=1022537073;start=0#6