A tree with or without value

[Torchy]

Hello everyone I'm new to this forum but need some advice about a tree we have in our farm yard. I'm not sure which section to place this post so here goes.

 

The tree we think is a black poplar or hybrid poplar we have no idea how old it is and at a guess possibly fifty to eighty years approx. We are having the crown removed leaving a reasonably straight trunk with no branches. Does anyone think there is a value in this or should I cut it for firewood? The trunk is about twenty five feet long and about three feet and tapering down to two feet in diameter.

 

Thank you.

[treequip]

At best its low grade firewood

 

Sorry

[agg221]

If you had a way of milling it yourself then poplar makes good cladding for sheds, bases for trailers and other general purpose timber. It is not naturally durable when exposed to water but it lasts pretty well if it isn't left damp (there are poplar blades in cruck frames of over 800yrs old) and it takes up preservative very well. It also doesn't splinter and the grain and colour, whilst subtle, are quite pleasant.

 

However, from a commercial perspective it is not a high value timber and there is unlikely to be demand for it, so you are not likely to sell either the log or the milled timber. As such, if you have a use for it yourself to do something from the above list, it would be cheaper to get this milled and use it than to buy in the timber - it would save you a good few hundred pounds over buying in some cheap softwood and do the same job just as well. If not, log it up for firewood.

 

Alec

[Torchy]

Thank you both for your advice.

[Cae Ffynnon]

Log it up for firewood, bearing in mind that once you have done so, a thread will appear on here with some one requesting Poplar to restore a cruck frame or deck a cart..... If it was mine I would mill it up for cladding.

[Ds Tree services]

Don't know how big the trunk is but if you make some big rings knife throwers will use it as a target but they will only give you a small drink of anything for it...

[Torchy]

That's a good one. You've made me laugh.