I once had a neighbor 35 years ago when I worked in the woods, he made these bowls out of wood. One day while bringing out wood with a skidder I saw a big 2'-ish burl on a side of a tree, after work I went back in and cut it down, of course the boss had to ask what I was doing, told him my neighbor buys these burls, ok he said.
Next day I come to the job site and the boss ask what I got for that burl, I said $150.00, he goes WHAT!!, he was thinking like I was, $10-$20.00, and yes I thought I did alright since I was only getting $5.30/hr. Well he told his boss and that was the end of that, a message came down to all 5 of us, from now on ALL burls will be turned into the company, it was a small sawmill company with it's own wood harvesting crew, I no longer cared looking for tree burls while on the job after that, and that sawmill co is long gone now and so isn't that bowl turning neighbor.
