Tree help

[jeffreybrown18]

Can anyone help me out a friend has this tree one his land. The tree is a soft maple It has small burl's all over the tree. even on the branches The thing we are try to figure out is what the wood may look like and is it worth any thing.

 

[plantman]

I would say you are going to have a bird's maple on your hands. Or, a fungal growth that has attacked the tree and left some very interesting grain patters in there. Don't let it slip through !! If not you will have some nice firewood at the least. Jim S

 

[workinforwood]

Odds are good you would get ring burl (kinda like a birdseye) off the knobs and very possibly a fiddleback several inches into the tree if sliced properly at a mill. But...is money the motivator to cut it down? If its living and perfectly healthy then you must decide if greed matters more than the trees life. If it was my tree i wouldnt dare cut it until a storm took its life. The tree exudes a true beauty in its own gnarly self. People cutting up trees like this, or just randomly walking through the forest chopping off burls, they should be locked up imo. I am not a tree hugger either, i believe in using the earths resources, and replacing them...thats called responsible harvesting. Its removing 1-2 trees purely because they worth big money that i oppose...hope that makes sense.