Spotted this while driving to the the job this morning and remembered to take pics on the way home. Hard to miss. Cant say ive ever seen such dramatic burling. It really stood out. It was at least three feet DBH.
I wonder if all the burls bump up the BTU value? C’mon Brad, forget all about locust mania and get wild about willow! No? Hey I tried.
Looks like mulberry to me. When you stop and think about it, humans and animals get diseases that disfigure them so why not trees as well?
Put Brad under that Willow in his buzzsaw costume for Halloween & you'd sell tickets like no tomorrow.
Highly doubtful. Even" straight" grain willow is notoriously horrible to split. Btdt, broke several splitter ram bolts on my push plate splitter that has no issues with elm. Never again will I attempt to attempt anything with willow except chainsawing it.
A burl results from a tree undergoing some form of stress. It may be caused by an injury, virus or fungus. Most burls grow beneath the ground, attached to the roots as a type of malignancy that is generally not discovered until the tree dies or falls over. Such burls sometimes appear as groups of bulbous protrusions connected by a system of rope-like roots. Almost all burl wood is covered by bark, even if it is underground. Insect infestation and certain types of mold infestation are the most common causes of this condition.
