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called redheart. does not dry the same and is denser than the white. a solid piece of red likes to self destruct sometimes. Holds water differently. the white will be dry and the red wet...
My fav is the one in pic #4.
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the spalt? it is QS multiple pieces of that. into kiln it will go.
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I have looked at many wood piles- barns etc. But never seen a semi truck load of big leaf burl. Loggers would rather burn it. Tree dumps here will not let you take things out. Yard trees bring some of the best. The exceptions- 2 enchanted burl forests. one that everyother tree was full of burl. you could have loaded a couple semis there in just what I saw and it was a 160 acre piece. other was 320 acres- Lots of very large burls.You can't quit buying. I wish I could afford to have tractor trailer loads shipped here to saw, dry and sell. Then I'd say happy retirement
Then you get to the problem of trust and access.
you go back to the Dot Com days. Burl was the rage here and abroad. Logging go really shut down in Oregon and Washington. The real loggers sorta turned up nose at harvesting lowly big leaf- sorta like plaster vs drywall in 50s and 60s. So the big leaf harvesting late 80s and 90s was done by the lower tier workers which were sorta defined by their goal, what they really wanted out of it. They worked hard for a month- 80-100,000 lbs of burl. Loaded truck and got their money- now to the goal- Party hardy- booze-coke-hookers until money was gone and do again. They left messes- no land rehab- forgot to pay stumpage etc. This legacy is what small and big landowners remember. And sons of these party hardiers heard the stories and continues the legacy. The spotted owl destroyed the logging industry and the people in it and that was passed on. Very sad to see some of these once thriving communities- probably like the rust belt but small towns.
The 2 enchanted forests. One was being logged of burl by a very hard working mid 30s guy- went off deep end- Now resides with the state-enforced. Other- he died in January 52 yrs old- human bodies can take abuse but have limits.
so in the end- The burls are there but some areas remind me of Deliverance movie- you do not get near.
I doubt we ever will run out of big leaf burl, but access will get worse- not better. Most burn.
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