Huge burr sycamore tree

First of all, I’d like to wish you all a belated Merry Christmas! – I’ve been incredibly busy over the past few weeks and had little chance of updating my blog. However, I was processing some more of the elm this morning and took some photo’s of this beauty…

At over four feet across in places, this burr sycamore trunk is certainly a heavy lump. It is covered in burr, which forms a carpet right along on side. Even the branches are burry, though they're buried somewhere in my pile of elm!

It certainly has some gnarly features…

Loads of burr!...

I acquired it as part of the large stack I bought, as mentioned in a previous post. I put it to one side a few weeks ago, but have been far too busy to cut it up. This will hopefully be my next task, as I’m dying to see inside – I’ve already chalked up some bowl blanks on the outside, but the rain has washed them off!

I’ll certainly be posting some more photo’s, when it’s in pieces…