Poplar- uses??

[tommer9]

just saw this ad on ebay- can anybody shed any light on it- particularly the bit where it describes how poplar is strong and rot resistant or something.

Poplar Hardwood timber board plank wood trailer wagon on eBay (end time 09-Oct-09 18:08:23 BST)

[Ian Leach]

just saw this ad on ebay- can anybody shed any light on it- particularly the bit where it describes how poplar is strong and rot resistant or something.

Poplar Hardwood timber board plank wood trailer wagon on eBay (end time 09-Oct-09 18:08:23 BST)

 

This what wikapedia says

 

Manufacturing

 

* In many areas fast-growing hybrid poplars are grown on plantations for pulpwood

 

* Poplar is widely used for the manufacture of paper[8].

 

* It is also sold as inexpensive hardwood timber, used for pallets and cheap plywood; more specialised uses include matches and the boxes in which camembert cheese is sold.

* Almost the entire woodwork of the traditional houses of the people of Badakhshan, also known as Pamir in Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Northern Areas of Pakistan is comprised of poplar wood.

 

Traditional Pamiri House

 

* Poplar wood is also widely used in the snowboard industry for the snowboard "core", because it has exceptional flexibility, and is sometimes used in the bodies of electric guitars and drums.

 

* Poplar wood, particularly when seasoned, makes a good hearth for a bow drill.

 

* Due to its high tannic acid content, the bark has been used in Europe for tanning leather.[3]

 

* It was also picked as the material for the bones of "Buster", the crash test dummy used in the TV show MythBusters, after some experiments revealed that it fractures under approximately the same loads as human bone.

 

[edit] Energy

 

There is interest in using poplar as an energy crop for biomass or biofuel, in energy forestry systems, particularly in light of its high energy in-energy out ratio, large carbon mitigation potential and fast growth.

 

In the United Kingdom poplar (as with fellow energy crop willow) is typically grown for two to five years (with single or multiple stems), then harvested and burned - the yield of some varieties can be as high as 12 oven dry tonnes every year[9]

[edit] Art

 

Poplar was the most common wood used in Italy for panel paintings; the Mona Lisa and indeed most famous early renaissance Italian paintings are on poplar. The wood is generally white, often with a slightly yellowish cast.

 

Some stringed instruments are made with one-piece poplar backs; violas made in this fashion are said to have a particularly resonant tone.

[Ian Leach]

Didn't think it was good outside tho only for indoor furniture and stuff.

[garth mc garth]

i sold a couple of artic loads to a timber merchant who said he sold it on to make match sticks.

[tommer9]

This is what i thought- they are saying in the ad that it was traditionally for trailer beds etc as it is so strong??????? I have never heard that before.

[Ian C]

Pops shite, it aint strong wood at all, hate climbing the damb things to be honest .

 

Probably quite strong to southerners though.................

[tommer9]

Pops shite, it aint strong wood at all, hate climbing the damb things to be honest .

 

Probably quite strong to southerners though.................

 

LOL.

[Peter]

Probably quite strong to southerners though.................

 

I heard you northern folk use it to beat your whippets and wives with.

[Ian C]

I heard you northern folk use it to beat your whippets and wives with.

 

You heard right Peter, just hard enough to hurt but soft enough to bend. keeps our lass ant wippet in check:thumbup1:

[tommer9]

I heard you use your whippets to beat your wives......or was that the other way round??LOL