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5 hours ago, Whoppa Choppa said:

I have a small quantity (maybe max 150 tonnes) of very straight and clean poplar timber. As far as I know, it's either firewood or kindling. Bigger logs only fetch £70/t delivered (best offer so far) so just as well firewood it right? But then it's about the worst firewood going? None of it is much bigger than 16".

I buy decent poplar logs for milling.  I will pay probably £75 per ton delivered.  I am South east wales, so if you are near me give me a shout!

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Some select few are still making things out of poplar for the food industry, it seems the containerised days are long gone where it was being felled and shipped abroad but throughout this it’s still going out in 8’ pallet and clean 12s, last job I was on was on a water meadow and moving large pieces proved problematic with the machines.

I don’t know if they replanted as the original plan was for the trees to stabilise the ground but with them gone who knows what may happen 

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On 03/12/2023 at 17:36, Squaredy said:

I buy decent poplar logs for milling.  I will pay probably £75 per ton delivered.  I am South east wales, so if you are near me give me a shout!

What do you mill it for if you don’t mind me asking?

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9 hours ago, MattyF said:

What do you mill it for if you don’t mind me asking?

I mill it and air dry it and sell it to my random customers along with all the other species I mill.  It is not a fast seller by any means, but nevertheless it has its fans.  I personally value it as internal cladding where it is of course highly insulative and its very light colour makes it a very modern attractive option.

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