Not totally useless besides juicy gossip, either, though these (text-search "cottonwood" on that page), like Debbie, just sit there and look pretty.
I once salvaged a 150-lb. cottonwood burl for a friend who makes wood clock faces, but I didn't know how to treat the wood and just stuck it on a pallet. It grew a spectacular orange fungus on the cut surface and covered everything in my garage with orange spores like rust.
...wait for it...
STUMP SPEECH.
*furious masturbation hand gesture*
I've got a nice black walnut stump here. It'll make some nice knife handles.
Cottonwood? Not so much.
I once salvaged a 150-lb. cottonwood burl for a friend who makes wood clock faces, but I didn't know how to treat the wood and just stuck it on a pallet. It grew a spectacular orange fungus on the cut surface and covered everything in my garage with orange spores like rust.
Got burl?
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