Poplar sawlogs wanted - decent price paid for lorry load.

[Squaredy]

I had a load of poplar from an arbtalker last year, but that is all gone, and I need more.

 

My spec is decent straight logs either 2.4m or 4.8m or a mixture.  Diameter at least a foot please.

 

I will pay around £80 per ton delivered.

 

Exact species doesn't matter as long as they are not lombardy.  Actually, one or two lombardy would be OK.  Also I can take a mixed load - most other hardwoods and softwoods purchased except spruce, hemlock, willow.

 

Message me and let me know what you have.  I am based near Newport South Wales so within an hour or so is preferred.

[Justme]

I think you might need to adjust your price unless you get very lucky.

 

Firewood grade is well over that now never mind saw log grade.

[Squaredy]

19 minutes ago, Justme said:

I think you might need to adjust your price unless you get very lucky.

 

Firewood grade is well over that now never mind saw log grade.

I am aware that firewood logs have sky rocketed in price.  But I am after poplar - not ash or beech.  And of course a lot of the logs I would buy are too big for a lot of processors.  My last load had plenty at about 2 foot diameter

[Squaredy]

I have been offered a supply of poplar/willow hybrid ‘beaupre’.  This is a new one to me - can anyone shed any light on what this timber is like?

 

 I must confess I didn’t know poplar and willow hybridise - is this a common plantation tree?

[Steve Bullman]

Sounds like the stuff of nightmares 😀

[Squaredy]

13 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

Sounds like the stuff of nightmares 😀

Ah but I guess you are talking from an arborist perspective?  I only have to worry about milling.

 

And drying.

 

And selling.

[Steve Bullman]

Yes. I have no idea what it’s like as a timber sorry 

[Stere]

 

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poplar/willow hybrid

 

 

 

Sounds impossible think its just a popular hybrid thats seems aimed at biomass and agroforestry not anything to do with willow?

 

 

Populus × interamericana

 

https://nl-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Zwarte_balsemhybride?_x_tr_sl=nl&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

 

 

EDIT see page 29 for some info on   Beaupre there are also some pictures

 

https://cdn.forestresearch.gov.uk/1990/03/fcbu092.pdf

 

 

Edited February 5, 2023 by Stere

[Paul in the woods]

This supplier of pop cuttings and plants lists Beaupre as a pop with a parentage of P. trichocarpa x P. deltoides. See this page: https://www.bowhayestrees.co.uk/willow-and-poplus-varieties

 

[Squaredy]

Yeah it does look as if beaupre is a pop hybrid.  Thank you guys for your help with this.