Poplar- uses??

[Mike Hill]

Low loader decks always used to be boarded with poplar. As people have spent more and more on their super expensive low loaders, the manufacturers started using expensive hardwood decks. Pointless really, as a track machine tears up a deck in no time.

 

Also the grouser bars on tracked machines sink into Poplar Decks a little bit,makes a Dozer or Digger a little bit more stable on a Truck after its chained down.

 

People back home have made decks and out buildings from Poplar for an age.It seems as though if its off the ground or inside cladding it does ok.

[Buzzsurgeon]

I found unless your stump teeth are super sharp difficult to grind, you just bounce off the long fibers!

[skyhuck]

I found unless your stump teeth are super sharp difficult to grind, you just bounce off the long fibers!

 

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo true!!!

[Mr Ed]

I found unless your stump teeth are super sharp difficult to grind, you just bounce off the long fibers!

 

Then you need Sandvik teeth. even after grinding a load of old cobbles and bricks, they cut through poplar like butter -

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVtJdeBuvLI]YouTube - Hornet pro 38 stumpgrinder[/ame]

[tommer9]

I found unless your stump teeth are super sharp difficult to grind, you just bounce off the long fibers!

 

Haha- the guy who i was climbing for rang me the next day whilst grinding the stump out- he didnt sound at all happy!!

[Buzzsurgeon]

Then you need Sandvik teeth. even after grinding a load of old cobbles and bricks, they cut through poplar like butter -

 

Out of interest what's the cost of the Hornet Grinder, handy on my loader!

[Mr Ed]

About £4500

[coolie]

chopsticks

[wills-mill]

a very under-rated timber.

 

Pop's great for truck floors for the same reason as it's a PITA to stump grind- the long woolly fibres make it unlikely to split and crack when you drop something on the truck, so the floor slowly fluffs up and wears away over time instead of chipping and breaking like harder timbers. 'Strength' is not always a good thing, it usually means a degree of brittleness as well.

 

Being nice and light is a bonus, you can get a greater payload on a poplar floored truck.

 

We've used it for quite a few things, you just have to think of it as a broadleaved version of hemlock or well behaved spruce..... extremely stable and quick drying with very little shrinkage. We've made some superb rafters, studwork and 16in to 22in wide weatherboarding for a cabin on a meadow that has been up for about 4 years with only an initial coat of brown shed treatment to keep it happy. I can't see any problems with it at the moment, but it's up off the ground on oak bearers and has a fairly decent overhang on the roof.

 

If you look at some of the uses that tulip tree (Tulip Poplar) is put to in the States you will see how versatile pop is- absolutely great for carcassing boards for kitchen units and staircases as a start....

[D Mc]

a very under-rated timber.

 

I agree for many of the reasons already stated. And one more which is when used for siding for a corral or animal pen, its ability to not produce splinters that penetrate the hide saves wear and tear on both animals and their handlers.

 

If you look at some of the uses that tulip tree (Tulip Poplar) is put to in the States you will see how versatile pop is- absolutely great for carcassing boards for kitchen units and staircases as a start....

 

This is a common thought but the tulip poplar is not a poplar at all. The Liriodendron tulipifera is a member of the Magnoliaceae family not the Salicaceae. But, nonetheless, a very nice wood.

 

Dave