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[Ed Davidson]

 

[Richard Aldrich]

Cool Post!

 

[Will Armstrong]

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

 

[robo hippy]

Will, is that a Silver Maple? Around here, they grow really big, really fast, and then fall apart....

robo hippy

 

[Will Armstrong]

Will, is that a Silver Maple? Around here, they grow really big, really fast, and then fall apart....

robo hippy

I'm not sure but I think you are correct. I took the picture in the winter and haven't been back to see if it is still there. The orange paint dot on the trunk means the city has decided it is coming down.

 

[robo hippy]

Used to go to Kenora and then fly north for some fishing. I noticed a lot of silver maple in Kenora. They don't have the diversity of trees up there that I have here in Oregon. Must be the weather....

robo hippy

 

[Will Armstrong]

I would have never guessed, but Toronto is at almost the identical latitude as Eugene. Kenora is considerably further north with very long cold winters and it's boreal forests are mixed with fewer species, and predominately coniferous.
Toronto is more temperate and is surrounded by diverse mixed forests, predominantly deciduous.

 

[Ric Williams]

Here are 4 shots (from roughly N, W, S, and E) of a red oak burl that I've been watching for about 10 years. It's just off the bike path at a large regional park where I ride frequently.
The trunk is about 16" in diameter just above the burl. When I first noticed it, the burl was about 12" vertical and only extended half way around the trunk. The tallest portion is about 36" now, starting near ground level. I expect that it'll encircle the trunk in a few years.
(All direction and dimension estimates may be +- 50% since I had 2 hours of riding in the heat and hills to get there.)

 

[Lou Jacobs]

This sycamore is a block from my home. I’ve been watching it for years, waiting for the day the city will take it down. Not holding my breath though…

 

[Peter Jacobson]

I was happy to find a few softball sized cherry burls in the woods near my home, so my son and his girlfriend had to outdo me and show the burls they found while walking in the woods (first one is in Portugal, second upstate NY).

 

[Ric Williams]

I was happy to find a few softball sized cherry burls in the woods near my home, so my son and his girlfriend had to outdo me and show the burls they found while walking in the woods (first one is in Portugal, second upstate NY).

We're lucky to live on 7 acres with 5 acres of woods and I haven't found *any* burls except a few small, insignificant ones. Can't complain though. I've gathered a pretty good stash of wood, just harvesting the trees that have come down.

 

[Bob Brown]

This sycamore is a block from my home. I’ve been watching it for years, waiting for the day the city will take it down. Not holding my breath though…View attachment 54624

You might check that crotch area. And the base. Both areas look like open areas that could cause interior decay. I worked at a city brush pit,a tree trimmer took down a 100 y o sycamore that was hollow heart except for about 5 " . Maybe you can get the city to check it.

 

[Steve Nix]

Waiting on this tree to fall..In the past ten years that I’ve been tuning the tree, water oak, has been thru 3 hurricanes and one tornado and still stands.

 

[Tom Gall]

I was happy to find a few softball sized cherry burls in the woods near my home, so my son and his girlfriend had to outdo me and show the burls they found while walking in the woods (first one is in Portugal, second upstate NY).

Wow ... that NY burl is nearly a perfect hemisphere. Rare ... I've never seen a burl like that.

 

[robo hippy]

Unfortunately I threw the pieces away, or burned them. What gets me is that the burls will have a cone that goes almost all the way to the pith of the tree. Next time I will save them, for sure! Maybe try out my hand plane skills and put a finish on them. Makes me think of the stories about loggers just slicing them straight off the face of the tree....

robo hippy

 

[Richard Shelby]

Cherry burls...lots of 'em. These are the flowering cherry which line the tidal basin in D.C. The trees are slowly dying, mostly because of rising water levels ( I believe). The park service is hiring contractors to cut them down and send them thru a chipper. Someone in the D.C. area with connections needs to score these and save them from the chipper. I'll take one or two.

 

[Travis Tatomir]

Had this given to me by the bartender at an art show in exchange for a piece made from it at some point in the future. I have no idea what wood species it is, and there'll be some rot to get rid of, but it's huge and I should be able to get a couple cool pieces out of it.

 

[Matt Meadows]

Australian Malee burl cap I've had for 15 years. So pretty I cannot bear to do anything with it.

I think I bought this at the Klingspor shop in Raleigh NC back when it was on Capital Blvd. Since then, I and the Klingspor shop have moved.

I Sanded and waxed the face of it and have it at my desk at work.


The two screws holding it up don't go in far.

 

[Richard Shelby]

Cherry burls...lots of 'em. These are the flowering cherry which line the tidal basin in D.C. The trees are slowly dying, mostly because of rising water levels ( I believe). The park service is hiring contractors to cut them down and send them thru a chipper. Someone in the D.C. area with connections needs to score these and save them from the chipper. I'll take one or two.

Just heard on npr....these will all be cut down. Someone in the DC area needs to step up.

 

[Kurt Manley]

My friend harvesting a lions mane mushroom from inside a huge oak burl on a hike in the Sierra Nevada Mountains

 

[Don Wattenhofer]

White oak Note for reference the trailer bed is 5' wide X 8' long