Massive Live Oak w Burls

[BurlyBurl]

I just connected with a guy in southern CT who sold me his enormous 60”+DBH Oak Tree with massive burls on it. The tree sits on the edge of a driveway with a large field behind it where I can drop the whole thing…ALL the wood is mine but there’s no possible way I could cut/haul/store/use all of it. He said I can drop it and take whatever I want, whenever I want, even if it takes several years and that is my first option…but I wanted to throw it out to ya’ll if there are any other good ideas, options or interest in acquiring or helping me figure out the best way to make use of this beautiful Oak tree. Pictures are forthcoming, forgot to take some when I was looking at it yesterday. I’m a 20-year ex-tree climbing/foreman and have dropped thousands of trees from the ground and besides the gigantic conifers, one being a 325’ tall 13’DBH Sitka Spruce in Olympic National Park, this would easily be one the biggest deciduous trees I’ve ever cut down…anyways…any suggestions for local mills, live edge slab/table makers, woodturning clubs or the like in the New England/Connecticut area would be appreciated. Oh, I also need somebody to let me borrow/rent their Stihl 660 ! cheers WB!

 

[2feathers Creative Making]

I just connected with a guy in southern CT who sold me his enormous 60”+DBH Oak Tree with massive burls on it. The tree sits on the edge of a driveway with a large field behind it where I can drop the whole thing…ALL the wood is mine but there’s no possible way I could cut/haul/store/use all of it. He said I can drop it and take whatever I want, whenever I want, even if it takes several years and that is my first option…but I wanted to throw it out to ya’ll if there are any other good ideas, options or interest in acquiring or helping me figure out the best way to make use of this beautiful Oak tree. Pictures are forthcoming, forgot to take some when I was looking at it yesterday. I’m a 20-year ex-tree climbing/foreman and have dropped thousands of trees from the ground and besides the gigantic conifers, one being a 325’ tall 13’DBH Sitka Spruce in Olympic National Park, this would easily be one the biggest deciduous trees I’ve ever cut down…anyways…any suggestions for local mills, live edge slab/table makers, woodturning clubs or the like in the New England/Connecticut area would be appreciated. Oh, I also need somebody to let me borrow/rent their Stihl 660 ! cheers WB!

I have had 4 years out of my Stihl clone 660. You can find them for around 400 if you are ordering direct. I paid a bit more from a local man who would warranty it for a year.

 

[Eric Rorabaugh]

If you are reasonably close by and want it all but want to get it out of the gentleman's way, have someone with a rollback pick it up and haul to your place. That way, its out of his way, at your place so you can cut when you have a little time, and you don't have to drive there when you want to cut but don't have a lot of time. Shouldn't be too expensive to have it hauled and in the long run, may be cheaper than loading all your equipment up, driving over, cutting and loading, hauling back to your place and unloading then cutting into whatever.

 

[BurlyBurl]

Here’s a couple photos.
The burl had a secondary leader break off about 20 years ago and about 1/8 of the whole burl is rotten, but the burl wraps around to the back side and where several other burls are.

 

[woodtickgreg]

I don't know if I'd call that a burl. More of a grow over I think.

 

[BurlyBurl]

Part of it is grow over. It didn’t do too good of a job compartmentalizing and sealing itself due to being a break, but the majority of that growth is burl.

 

[2feathers Creative Making]

I just connected with a guy in southern CT who sold me his enormous 60”+DBH Oak Tree with massive burls on it. The tree sits on the edge of a driveway with a large field behind it where I can drop the whole thing…ALL the wood is mine but there’s no possible way I could cut/haul/store/use all of it. He said I can drop it and take whatever I want, whenever I want, even if it takes several years and that is my first option…but I wanted to throw it out to ya’ll if there are any other good ideas, options or interest in acquiring or helping me figure out the best way to make use of this beautiful Oak tree. Pictures are forthcoming, forgot to take some when I was looking at it yesterday. I’m a 20-year ex-tree climbing/foreman and have dropped thousands of trees from the ground and besides the gigantic conifers, one being a 325’ tall 13’DBH Sitka Spruce in Olympic National Park, this would easily be one the biggest deciduous trees I’ve ever cut down…anyways…any suggestions for local mills, live edge slab/table makers, woodturning clubs or the like in the New England/Connecticut area would be appreciated. Oh, I also need somebody to let me borrow/rent their Stihl 660 ! cheers WB!

You might cut the tree about a foot either side of that growth and have the growth hauled to your house. Then you can talk to a Sawyer about cutting up what's left into quarter sawn material. That is if it's solid. If it is hollow, talk to a firewood guy about helping himself to what's left

 

[Mr. Peet]

Seeing the title with Live oak, I was thinking of a southern tree species. Can't enlarge the picture enough to ID the tree, but looks like Red oak bark but some of the leaves looked Black oak. Acorns can answer that one.

Tick might be right, but I'm thinking it looks like a canker. There again, in the craft world, anything made from it sells as "burl" because it draws more money....

 

[BurlyBurl]

I realized that after posting, shoulda led with Black Oak, I think that’s what it is but been wrong before. I’ll look closer at acorns next time I’m there to confirm. It’s going to be some pretty wood, god willing, and I hope to get as much as possible. Thanks for stopping by! I will get more photos to show the burl better. There’s significant canker wood, but also lots of Burl.