Found this in the bushes

[Burl Source]

I gotta call your bs on finding this in some random blackberry bushes.
If so....I gotta say, great find!

It didn't grow there. The burl hunters offload truckloads of manzanita on the back of the wood yard where it sits waiting to be pressure washed.
Very likely it was pushed aside and the blackberries grew over it.
Our wood yard with whole burls, slabs and burl caps covers a few acres of the grounds here.

[Burl Source]

This pile of manzanita burls is about 40 feet long.
These are dirty ones waiting to get washed.

[apicius9]

'The burl hunters' sounds like another one of these 'reality' shows Nice stash, Mark!

Stefan

[Lucretia]

What I want to know is what Mark was doing in the bushes...

[Hattorichop]

It didn't grow there. The burl hunters offload truckloads of manzanita on the back of the wood yard where it sits waiting to be pressure washed.
Very likely it was pushed aside and the blackberries grew over it.
Our wood yard with whole burls, slabs and burl caps covers a few acres of the grounds here.

I forgot, you live in a land where the burl is plentiful.

[sachem allison]

I will probably finish cutting this tomorrow and let you know what I come up with.

does it need to be stabilized?

[HHH Knives]

Great find Mark. I would love a block or 2 if its not all spoken for yet! Message me when ya get a chance.

God Bless
Randy

[Lefty]

It's nice looking stuff!

[Burl Source]

does it need to be stabilized?

It can go either way.
It is extra hard wood, but it takes stabilizing very nicely too.

[Burl Source]

I was able to get more out of this burl than I thought.
But, I think I will send it to K&G for stabilizing just to play it safe.
When they get back Son and Randy will get first choice, since they asked.