Burls

[calgarychef]

If you do put it away somewhere to dry, seal the ends. Lots of white glue will work or go to lee valley tools and buy some log end sealer (expensive but good).

[Kim473]

The bark on it looks just like my maple tree, runners on the trunk also. A few burls on mine as well. Not cutting it down just yet, waiting till the trunk gets to be about 4 ft dia in another 20 years. LOL. About 3 ft now. Some day it will make a few great tables. Geez, I'll be 80 ! Not in my life time I guess.

[owlhoot]

My first thought was Manitoba Maple,
The Lee Valley waxy End Grain sealer as mentioned is a good product, I used it on Russian Olive and it works.
Some wood turners may want the burl green for rough turning before drying. There are wood turning clubs and gilds around that may be interested.

[PCP_ECOM]

Just noticed that it also has some spalting going on as well

[tirebob]

Originally Posted by Red Bullets

I thought it was a box alder too. Not too many manitoba maples in Alberta.
Either way it is a type of maple and I bet if cut properly it will reveal what they call "birds eye maple."

Box Elder is Manitoba Maple. People on the prairies always called it Manitoba Maple but I always knew it as box elder. Kind of like Walleye vs Pickeral. It isn't hard like the maple we normally use like sugar (rock) maple or big leaf maple. ...

Oh... Just for clarification, the pic you posting is more of a quilted maple (super nice piece too!). Birdseye maple is like this...



Curly (Tiger) maple is like this...

[coreya3212]

Tirebob is spot on.

[HunterDave]

Originally Posted by tirebob

Box Elder is Manitoba Maple. People on the prairies always called it Manitoba Maple but I always knew it as box elder. Kind of like Walleye vs Pickeral. It isn't hard like the maple we normally use like sugar (rock) maple or big leaf maple. ...

In Alberta Big Leaf Maple (do they grow here?) and Manitoba Maple may be considered hardwood but they are actually soft maples.

http://www.wood-database.com/wood-ar...aple/#hardness

In Ontario I heated my house with oak, beech and hard maple. When I cut firewood the soft maple and birch stayed in the bush. Nothing wrong with it except you'd have to cut, split and stack more of it for the winter because it burns faster and doesn't give off as much heat. Yes, I was spoiled there.

https://www.firewood-for-life.com/firewood-btu.html

[buckbrush]

Originally Posted by HunterDave

In Alberta Big Leaf Maple (do they grow here?) and Manitoba Maple may be considered hardwood but they are actually soft maples.

http://www.wood-database.com/wood-ar...aple/#hardness

In Ontario I heated my house with oak, beech and hard maple. When I cut firewood the soft maple and birch stayed in the bush. Nothing wrong with it except you'd have to cut, split and stack more of it for the winter because it burns faster and doesn't give off as much heat. Yes, I was spoiled there.

https://www.firewood-for-life.com/firewood-btu.html

Thanks Dave. I Didn't know that.
Handy chart in the second link.

[32-40win]

Dad used to cut them off logs at Woodfibre in Squamish when he worked there in the 60's. I have one here that is 3-1/2 ft in dia and 5" thick, don't remember if it is fir or spruce, probably fir. He spent many hours on them, likely did 30 or 40 of them.

[KnifeFan007]

If you end up cutting it up, let me know. I’d be interested in buy a piece.
I’ve used several different burls for knife handle scales. They usually have pretty nice, tight grain.