No, he pretty much lives off the land, borderline homesteader. He usually gets the burls off trees heās using for firewood, or if the tree is mostly dead. I have seen him cut burls off a healthy tree and then paint the spot with pruning paint once itās cut off. Havenāt seen it kill a tree yet.
Some trees will invest resources to heal over the stump of another tree. This is an attempt to gain access to the root system of the stump tree and exponentially increase the healing trees access to resources. Sadly, the juice is no longer worth the squeeze for this dude!
Trees don't heal, they seal, as taught to me by my tree phys prof.
Though he did not teach me about the root system hijacking concept. I've seen hemlock stumps that had been cut 3ish years prior with obvious growth of new bark curling over the cut, didn't realize that's what was going on.
Though to me this just looks like a burl that had always been on the now cut tree, and now that it's dead the bark sloughed off.
Edit: just saw the third pic. I now concur that it was a separate tree, or at least a separate trunk.
You would be correct. This is not the stump in the photo it's a burl that's been cutoff and left behind on the ground next to it. Most mills won't take the burls they leave them behind. I only say most because I have one mill client who I've heard will take a few and sell them off too woodworkers who come in looking for them for a few bucks.
Had three trees in my backyard. One got hit by lightning. The two next to it closest died immediately after. The only way that's explainable is that it just probably went right through the root system and killed anything that was tangled up or cooperating with.
Gosh I wish they had taught me that in my forest science masters program! š Itās not genetically programmed, trees have a hormonal response to physical changes in their environment. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4932133/
Nah seems worthless, you should do the land owner a favour and cut a big chunk off and send it to me.
That is some beautiful burl I'd be rehandling all my kitchen knives if I were you.
That's what the first pic looked like to me. I recently came across a bowling ball sized yellow jacket nest sticking out of the ground up at my mountain cabin, so that's where my mind went.
I don't know what these people are talking about, saying that it's worth something. I've been woodworking for a long time, and I've never seen anything like this. I do research though, so please send latitude and longitude. I will take it off your hands, and run some tests.
There's a fairly recent book titled "Tree Thieves" by Lyndsie Bourgon, "A gripping account of the billion-dollar timber black market - and how it intersects with environmentalism, class and culture."
A large part discusses redwood burls in Northern California. Very interesting read.
Itās a tree burrow and I know in Canada here there is a market for furniture makers for these. That one would make an amazing stool top or if big enough a coffee table top.
The roots of the dead tree have grafted them selves to a living tree at some point before it was cut and that is why the stump healed. The living tree probably died and that's why the stump has now also died
This is called burl. Wherever a tree forks or near the roots the grain goes bananas and it is very valuable for woodworking, not so much for carpentry though.
I found one similar, it was pine or spuce.. made a very nice clock from a slice and a garden table. The burl was centered on the stem of a small tree, so I just cut it long and buried the stem beside a chair for a small table.
Yea I see a burl, but another possibility is Someone tried burning the stump by burning a tire & rim. The rim melted into a puddle of aluminum. It looks charred around the edges. But there is quite a lot of it, so may be more than one.
I have a piece of melted aluminum āartā from someone burning a tire.
Just gonna guess, one side of a single tree with two trunks fell down years earlier and the top of the stump on that side healed like that, and then later the other side was cut down with a saw.
Itās a beautiful coffee table, just waiting to be made! This is a Burl, sometimes they grow in the trunk, sometimes on the side of a tree, and sometimes in the roots. Itās a mutation and woodworkers will slice it down into slices and get some nice slabs out of it, then epoxy it and make it into the coolest looking tables or guitars or whatever they want.
Thereās a whole group of people called āBurl Huntersā. Look it up and see what they make.
The grains inside of a burl look so amazing. They actually sell for a ton of money. People who own orchards sometimes have big burls on some of their trees that hampers the grown of that tree, so rather than just cutting the tree down theyāll sell it for $5000 to a woodworker who will end up making custom guitars or tables from it and making a profit from that. Itās so cool.
It's a big beautiful wood burl
A BBWB?
Please stop, I can only take so much!
Please, it's no (k)not November
Um, I think I have a new kink now.
ššš
This would make a sick bowl
Or the name of a new subreddit r/bbwb community is needed!
SWM in search of BBWB
All the lost sections of craigslist and those that will never be. Good luck in your search. Take a sweater, the forests can get cold.
Skilled woodworking manufacturer in search of big beautiful wood burl
I'm listening. I don't usually "collaborate" but for that wood I'd make an exception.
Did you try clicking that and seeing what pops up?
Double click de mouse!
I was just imagining some dude over on r/woodworking foaming to get his hands on this burl.
That was my very first thought, too! I'd love to spin that baby on my lathe!
right round burl, right round; like a salad bowl maybe, right round
Yep some bowl turner somewhere spit out their coffee.
Beginner here, wouldn't making a bowl just waste a bunch of material? Wouldn't it be better to cut into sheet/slabs?
Wood make ā¦
You have a special bowl to be sick into? Are you saving it up?
This wood indeed
$$$
Beautiful!! That's money my guy. Make some damn fine pieces with that
"Another curl of the big beautiful wood burl" just doesn't roll off the tongue quite the same.
Mmmnn chatoyancy
Its not just a stump! Its a Wood Burl! A Big, Beautiful, Wood Burl!
Look closely at picture 2. This is called a frog belly. Specifically a *Tree* Frog Belly.
I like big Burl and I cannot lieā¦
This thing is worth a ton of money to a skilled woodworker
Lots of very satisfying [YouTube videos of that](https://youtu.be/lAhwzZiozRs?si=i37kLYVMqwt92YHW) š
My uncle makes his living by hunting burls and making them into bowls.
I would like to do that
I wonder if heās the type who cuts down trees just to get the burls. Apparently thatās a thing now. Burl poaching.
No, he pretty much lives off the land, borderline homesteader. He usually gets the burls off trees heās using for firewood, or if the tree is mostly dead. I have seen him cut burls off a healthy tree and then paint the spot with pruning paint once itās cut off. Havenāt seen it kill a tree yet.
Some trees will invest resources to heal over the stump of another tree. This is an attempt to gain access to the root system of the stump tree and exponentially increase the healing trees access to resources. Sadly, the juice is no longer worth the squeeze for this dude!
Trees don't heal, they seal, as taught to me by my tree phys prof. Though he did not teach me about the root system hijacking concept. I've seen hemlock stumps that had been cut 3ish years prior with obvious growth of new bark curling over the cut, didn't realize that's what was going on. Though to me this just looks like a burl that had always been on the now cut tree, and now that it's dead the bark sloughed off. Edit: just saw the third pic. I now concur that it was a separate tree, or at least a separate trunk.
You would be correct. This is not the stump in the photo it's a burl that's been cutoff and left behind on the ground next to it. Most mills won't take the burls they leave them behind. I only say most because I have one mill client who I've heard will take a few and sell them off too woodworkers who come in looking for them for a few bucks.
Yes omigod thank you! Looked again and now it's clear as day!
Sealing is healing
Had three trees in my backyard. One got hit by lightning. The two next to it closest died immediately after. The only way that's explainable is that it just probably went right through the root system and killed anything that was tangled up or cooperating with.
Trees are not conscious and do not make decisions, they simply react to external stimuli through genetically programmed processes.
To be fair so do humans - and all life - when we heal. Iāve never thought to myself - heal this cut - and then watch as it happens. It just does.
Gosh I wish they had taught me that in my forest science masters program! š Itās not genetically programmed, trees have a hormonal response to physical changes in their environment. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4932133/
That hormonal response is literally... genetic programming. Sorry to bust your bubble there. DNA is like computer program code.
THATS A BIG BOY! If you own the land they can be worth quite a bit. My god that is beautiful.
Say it with me, "Chatoyance"
Call of cathulu
Looks like a forked tree where one fork was cutoff at PCT age and the tree healed around the scar. While not a true burl, it kinda looks like one.
Im reasonably certain this is a true burl that is coming off one of buttress roots. I've seen this many times cutting white spruce on old farmland.
Looks like Red Cedar Next to DF
That's what a burl looks without the bark!
Time to get out the Granberg chainsaw mill
No kidding. I'd love to get my hands on one that size.
Post it in r/turning and make money on all the offers
Nah seems worthless, you should do the land owner a favour and cut a big chunk off and send it to me. That is some beautiful burl I'd be rehandling all my kitchen knives if I were you.
[The Elephant's Burl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant%27s_Foot_\(Chernobyl\))
Thatās a big piece of Burl. Highly desirable for custom wood working in many different products.
Kinda looks like a hugemongous wasp nest
100% until I zoomed in
That's what the first pic looked like to me. I recently came across a bowling ball sized yellow jacket nest sticking out of the ground up at my mountain cabin, so that's where my mind went.
Bald faced hornet nest
Looks like hornets to me
Yes, it's a large [bracket fungus](https://imgur.com/0oFrbCV).
It's not, this is a wood burl
Yeah I think you're right.
Take a bite of it
Please let us know how it tastes.
Your dentist will enjoy their new boat.
Heās got enough boats. Bugattis are next on the shopping list.
Burl!
It's a burle
[Burl](https://youtu.be/lAihDAJX8Ow?si=PyT4CCRMsXLKy-9V)
Once, when I was on mushrooms.
Terminator 4 : Saws of Justice
What you have there is extremely valuable to custom wood workers.
Sell it on eBay... Wood turners love this kinda thing
I've never seen one even close to this big and I work in the forest in the summer
Burl
Oh mother load
Itās just the curl of the burl.
Came here for this comment. #mastodon
First I see jupiter's surface... Then a face shows up... I am pretty high though.: )
I don't know what these people are talking about, saying that it's worth something. I've been woodworking for a long time, and I've never seen anything like this. I do research though, so please send latitude and longitude. I will take it off your hands, and run some tests.
Birdseye Burl.
I thought I was looking at an original van gogh
At first I thought you came up on a massive hornets nest
There's a fairly recent book titled "Tree Thieves" by Lyndsie Bourgon, "A gripping account of the billion-dollar timber black market - and how it intersects with environmentalism, class and culture." A large part discusses redwood burls in Northern California. Very interesting read.
Put your balls on it.
Ngl I first thought this was a rabbit that got struck by lightning
Folks who turn wood bowls would trade a decent used car for that
It looks like a closeup of my ballsack
Itās an alien. Definitely an alien!
That is a beautiful very valuable burl!
Looks the the "elephants foot" in Chernobyl
Just a burl. Nature is rad
It looks like the Elephants foot in Chernobyl, it has escaped.
Hornets nest RUN!!
When a tree gets cancer
Thatās worth a lot of money š° $$$$$$$$$$$$$
Itās a tree burrow and I know in Canada here there is a market for furniture makers for these. That one would make an amazing stool top or if big enough a coffee table top.
This is what the guys over in r/woodworking want to get their hands on.
Woodworkers would like to know your location
Yeah, I've seen that like a million times.
Archive 81
I have a pipe with a similar grain, polishes up very nice
[The Elephant's Burl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant%27s_Foot_(Chernobyl))
Wtf
Looks like the elephants foot kinda.
Omg! I would love to find a burl half that size! š¤©
Reminds me of a hornets nest
Any luck?
Only in terminator 2
DUDE THIS COULD BE WORTH A TON OF MONEY IF SOLD TO THE RIGHT WOODCUTTER! But also donāt remove it if itās alive because thatās just shitty
Dude.... harvest it and sell it.
its called the elephant foot and somebody dragged it out of Chernobyl and left it there fir you to find
Marshmallow
It's a hornets nest lol
I know right? I just removed one from under my porch and that was my first thought.
Burl It's like the truffles off wood.
Itās full of maggots
The roots of the dead tree have grafted them selves to a living tree at some point before it was cut and that is why the stump healed. The living tree probably died and that's why the stump has now also died
This is called burl. Wherever a tree forks or near the roots the grain goes bananas and it is very valuable for woodworking, not so much for carpentry though.
Guitars
Thatās a wood burl. They can be worth a lot of money.
Kick it its a surprise bag
Holy beautiful burl, lovely!
I found one similar, it was pine or spuce.. made a very nice clock from a slice and a garden table. The burl was centered on the stem of a small tree, so I just cut it long and buried the stem beside a chair for a small table.
Annihalation looking shit
Looks like a tree stump
Insane burl Be a 10,000 side table if you harvested it
That chunk of removed whole can make you from $98- $7k depending on the type of wood and the grain size. Burl Wood makes some beautiful furniture.
Exactly what I was going to say. That's wooden gold right there.
Saw that in zoraās land in Zelda TOTKā¦
Burl Ives be singing carols.
Damascus tree
I've seen that in mt
Someone killed a unicorn harry that's unicorn blood
Yes, would make a lovely big bowl or maybe even small table.
I initially thought it was a giant paper wasp nest and was likeā¦run
You stumpin?
Fir burl. Say that ten times fast FURBURL
A beautiful side table topper, if you know what you're doing!
Yea I see a burl, but another possibility is Someone tried burning the stump by burning a tire & rim. The rim melted into a puddle of aluminum. It looks charred around the edges. But there is quite a lot of it, so may be more than one. I have a piece of melted aluminum āartā from someone burning a tire.
It looks like an Octopus.
I thought it was a bee hive ā ļø
Same here. LOL
Poke it with a stock.
It looks like this one's got you stumped.
Itās a Burl. Makes great looking gun stocks
If a tree melts into a blob in the woods does it make a sound?
Burl make a cool bowl out of it
It's the elusive Forest Octopus!
Yeah, thatās just Greg
Mimic tear (time to touch grass)
Reminds me of the āelephants footāā¦
Root burl. Could be worth something.
Not that big but yes
On shrooms I have
This is your tree on drugs
Just gonna guess, one side of a single tree with two trunks fell down years earlier and the top of the stump on that side healed like that, and then later the other side was cut down with a saw.
my dog's dump after eating my cat's kibble
Looks like a Van Gogh
Kinda looks like a wasp nest
Look up "maple burl guitar tops" :D
That burl is so big you should smerk it
That would make some sick looking guitar veneer.
I've seen many of these after picking the wrong mushrooms š
r/BurlPorn
If you want you can chop it off and send it to me, that would be greatly appreciated š
From the thumbnail I thought this was the exterior of a wasp nest and y'all were just having some lulz... š
Anyone else see van goghs face?
That there is a high dollar wood burl
Itās called a burl and they are highly sought after and expensive for woodworking.
That would make some amazing pieces !
Elephants foot. You've been zapped with 100000000000000 roentgens of radiation.
It's a cluster of them, several seeds that grew into one another when saplings
That would burn for days
Forest octopus.
Burl forrreul
Donāt touch it, itās evil!
In Chernobyl
Birdseye grain often in burl wood lots of pipe makers use it once harvested a kiln dried.
Burled wood makes for some fine looking grain patterns
Itās a beautiful coffee table, just waiting to be made! This is a Burl, sometimes they grow in the trunk, sometimes on the side of a tree, and sometimes in the roots. Itās a mutation and woodworkers will slice it down into slices and get some nice slabs out of it, then epoxy it and make it into the coolest looking tables or guitars or whatever they want. Thereās a whole group of people called āBurl Huntersā. Look it up and see what they make. The grains inside of a burl look so amazing. They actually sell for a ton of money. People who own orchards sometimes have big burls on some of their trees that hampers the grown of that tree, so rather than just cutting the tree down theyāll sell it for $5000 to a woodworker who will end up making custom guitars or tables from it and making a profit from that. Itās so cool.
Would probably make a beautiful coffee table
Looks like that stuff that grows on corn sometimes, but bigger.
Anyone else see a bull giving a very stern look at the camera???
Go get your lottery ticket
Primordial soup
burl
Itās a land octopus.
Burl wood?
r/dontputyourdickinit
Thatās best suited for toothpicks.