Black Knot

[Thistle]

You never know until you cut into a burl whether its hollow & worthless or solid & possibly a treasure.How far up is it? If its not up very high you can remove it with no damage to the tree.Unless you were planning on dropping it anyway.

Thistle, the first three pictures are the same cherry tree, it's up the tree pretty good. The last picture is a smaller cherry tree just down the trail.

zap

Zap, Looks like the lower part of trunk in 3rd pic has fire scar or some other type of damage from years back.I'd drop them both & just for kicks carefully slice off widest side of burl first w/ about an inch or so of main trunk wood just to see what you got.If its even partly hollow,you'll know immediately.Can always burn it later if worthless.

 

[thewoodlands]

If mother nature is good, I'll try for next weekend.


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