I've been a Logger/Faller most of my adult life. Worked from the Coastal waters of British Columbia to all over the Western US and I have seen burls on Trees that woodworkers would spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for....cut off the trunk of a Tree and let it go to rot sitting high on some slope miles from anyplace....if A guy was smart he would get himself a Sikorsky Heavy lifting Chopper and go searching for these discarded burls, salvage them and sell them on the open market to the highest bidder....you could honestly make millions a year if you knew where to look ! Our Dining Room Table in our Log Home here in the Mountains is made from just such a burl from the side of a giant coastal yellow cedar ...My Son and I did it all by ourselves and it's the most beautiful thing outside our children that I have ever made and gave my wife for our 30th anniversary. It seats 12 adults very comfortable and is the center piece of our formal dining room. It's a live edge creation of my own and there is not one metal fastener in it any place. The top alone is 4" thick and actually two pieces cut one after another at the local saw mill for me then laid end to end so it's almost a mirror image of itself. We only had one shot to get it right and it took our Son and I about 4 months to get it completely finished but boy was the work and sweat equity we put in it ever worth it.