poplar

[nepia]

In the late 60s we moved to a house with 4 acres that had 700 trees planted. 200 of them were Lombardys that the entrepreneurial predecessor had grown for use as coffin wood and matches. It burns fine, even when not soaked in hydrocarbon.

[detritus21]

I've burnt a fair bit of poplar. The only problem you may have is people moaning it doesn't weighh much as once most of the moisture is gone it weighs very little.

[Marko]

A photo of cages of poplar which was dropped by a certain Mr Riding January 2009 and processed and stacked in February. Random samples from the middle of the crates are measuring a uniform 19% this afternoon. Interesting to note that the contents of each cage has dropped by about 4" since the photo was taken.

Edited October 2, 2009 by Marko

[Mesterh]

I remember hearing that poplar is good for carving. I cant see it myself since I thought it would crack fairly easily and rot pretty quick!

[Hogs Breath]

I get a lot of poplar and if dried and kept dry burns well.If used in wood burners you get very little ash so gets my

[firewoodman]

definatly billet it or store in individual crates with plenty of air flow.

 

if you dont and store it all in one big pile then the bark will absorb all the moisture from the wood and start to go all stringy and rot and leave you with one big black wet mess in the log pile, same for pine and any other wood with a very high water content at felling.

 

get the felling i had this happen???

 

once dry it burns well and had no spitting or poping when burning and gives off a good heat

[Dave Martin]

Marko... those metal crates look ideal for storage .. are they available to buy?

 

Dave

[Dave Martin]

When I first had my wood burners installed I logged a large poplar that had blown down about 5 years ago only to read lots of bad press about it as firewood but in practice it is excellant.

[tommer9]

What your avater about hogsbreath? Bikes? or am i way off the mark?

[Petemate390xp]

I use it for axe racing cuts well...