Use for White Poplar other than second rate firewood?

[aspenarb]

Ash and poplar are used for train brake shoes.

 

 

[Steve Bullman]

6 hours ago, Climbergiorgio said:

I've always been seeing poplar plantations, chosen for its fast growing...depending on the type of tree, you can have different things: with biggest than 22 cm diameter they can have wood layer, smaller than 22 cm they send it to sawmill, smaller than 10 cm it's used for biomass (energy)

Interesting.  Don't see them here, not on that scale.  All we have are over expired plantantions that were originally planted for match sticks..who uses matchsticks these days!

[Squaredy]

Wow that is a fascinating video about the train brake shoes - I thought that had died out 50 years ago.  When James the red engine first arrived at Sodor he had wooden brake shoes and they caught fire and he crashed, so the Fat Controller repaired him, painted him red and gave him metal brake shoes!

 

By the way, another good use of Poplar is for young children to learn simple woodwork as it is easy to cut.  Bit of a small market I admit.

[sandspider]

22 hours ago, aspenarb said:

Ash and poplar are used for train brake shoes.

 

 

Interesting, thanks. I wonder what the salt water is for - to dry the shoes out by osmosis, after the oil dipping?

[grmn8]

Poplar logs are used for cultivating mushrooms such as oyster.  Holes are drilled all over the log, then the holes are filled sawdust inoculated with mushroom spores, then sealed over with wax.  The whole log gets colonised by the mushroom and you get a yearly harvest for maybe five years.