Which poplar species is this?

[openspaceman]

8 minutes ago, Big J said:

Not huge. Pallet wood mostly. Low-grade chocks and bearers for haulage and packaging. 

Coffin boards was the high value market. It looks like that tree has been high pruned

[Rough Hewn]

Yes mill it.
Forget ya traditional lorry beds and veg boxes.
If it looks good, people will buy it.
Or log cabins.
[emoji106]

[Big J]

3 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

Coffin boards was the high value market. It looks like that tree has been high pruned

500t plus is a lot of coffins!

[spuddog0507]

4 hours ago, Big J said:

500t plus is a lot of coffins!

if we get another bout of the plague, you will be quids in,????

[farmer rod]

the only things that are certain :-- death and taxes

[openspaceman]

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.

[Mr. Squirrel]

I met a guy who built cabinets, furniture etc for yachts, he used mostly Poplar and Tulip wood. I was amazed it got used for anything, but makes sense. Light, innit...

Can't help on ident though...

[ESS]

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

[openspaceman]

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.

[devon TWiG]

I have heard it said a lot of poplar was planted for match production and plywood   , don't think the precise species matters much as the wood is pretty much the same ,