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17 hours ago, Big J said:

500t plus is a lot of coffins!

Yes, I wonder how many people get buried nowadays, a simple coffin must be advantageous for cremation. . We sent a few lorry loads of good butts in multiples of 7ft lengths up to a mill in Towcester so they must have had a market.

 

Of course George Snell used to promote it for furniture but I wonder what happened after his firm morphed into a biog firewood business.

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37 minutes ago, ESS said:

A lot been shipped to India in recent years for peeling.

There was a market garden both my parents worked at before my dad volunteered for the RAF and they planted a poplar grove with the intent of making vegetable punnets but then plastic came along and latterly the place became a F1 headquarters and supercar factory but the remnant poplar coppice is still at the front.

 

Forest Fencing had a peeling line as did the aforementioned poplar Timber Company but I don't think this last was commissioned.

 

The problem with poplar furniture was  it dented easily. I wondered if this could be overcome in the same way they surface harden cricket bats, by crushing the outer layer, to give a tough surface and a light rigid core.

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