chainsawman123
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is poplar tree wood good for woood stove and oin door fireplace
is poplar tree wood good for wood stove or in door fireplace
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AGoodSteward
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Burns fast. Low heat...I split it in big chunks (20" long, 6-12" thick) and shove tons of it in when I'm home. Put the good wood in for overnight.
Extra ash in the bottom. Crap wood. That's why I don't sell it.
Extra ash in the bottom. Crap wood. That's why I don't sell it.
ChoppyChoppy
Tree Freak
I burn it at home in the fall and spring. Close to same BTUs as spruce.
Cuts, splits and stacks nice.
About the only thing is it makes light powdery ash. If not careful when loading the stove it gets airborne easily.
Cuts, splits and stacks nice.
About the only thing is it makes light powdery ash. If not careful when loading the stove it gets airborne easily.
Back when I used to burn wood, I remember poplar cracking and popping alot, you know sending sparks out of the stove door.
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ChoppyChoppy
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Odd, have never had that happen. Spruce is really bad for that.
When I'm out cutting wood, I step over poplar or drive over it.
Could be a slightly different species we have in the south, don't know. I would notice it if I used it for campfires too.
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Yeah poplar is less desirable for air tight wood stove usage due to it low btu output . I use it in combination with white birch or cedar occasionally in the spring or fall in the garage woodstove when lower heat is required . Also at camp when blow downs are encountered . I have experienced the popping and sparking at outside fire pits especially if it is still a little green . However Jack pine is the norm for fire pit fires up North !
Just to be clear, we're talking about Tulip Tree / Tulip Poplar, right?
ChoppyChoppy
Tree Freak
I don't think tulip poplar is even a poplar??
I was talking about populus family (poplar) .. cottonwood, balasm poplar, balm of Gilead, aspen, etc.,
ChoppyChoppy
Tree Freak
Often we work on jobs that it's got to be taken along with the "good" wood.
It makes decent lumber, so there's that too.
Yeah Poplar , Aspen , Balsam species is also what I was referring to .
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I think Gunny will take all the free firewood you are willing to drop off at his place! Species be Damn!
windthrown
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No. Tulip poplar is NOT poplar. Its in the magnolia family. We are talking about poplar/aspen/cottonwood/balsam here in the willow family.
windthrown
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Most poplar here in the west is black cottonwood. AKA Populus trichocarpa or balsam poplar. Smells like cat piss when burned, hard on saws to cut, stringy, hard to split, low heat value, takes a long time to dry. We also have eastern poplar trees here which split better and smell better when burned, but they have less heat than black cottonwood. I burned it one year, and that is it. I do not collect, cut or burn it any more. Trash species. Ita all over the place here and I could cut as much as I want (as I have done in the past). Not worth the effort. And I hate the smell of it burning. Commercially they use it for making paper here and for making pallets.
A quick Google search says that the poplars we have here in NC are called yellow poplar.
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windthrown
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Typical of google, and wrong. Yellow poplar is also known as tulip poplar, and not a true poplar. Its a type of maglolia. From wiki:
Liriodendron tulipifera—known as the tulip tree, American tulip tree, tulipwood, tuliptree, tulip poplar, whitewood, fiddletree, and yellow-poplar—is the North American representative of the two-species genus Liriodendron, and the tallest eastern hardwood.
Ok. I'm no tree expert for sure. Everyone around here calls these trees poplar. They grow tall and very straight. Light gray, fairly smooth bark. Their leaves are shaped similar to a maple but without the sharp points.
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Thanks for clearing that up. Kinda thought it wasn't tulip tree.
re: NW black cottonwood:
takes a long time to dry -- well now, I have some BC in my woodshed and it is good and dry, nearly as good as cedar for kindling. The stuff in the woodshed only took about 3 years to dry.
One more 'advantage' to BC, rots even faster than alder,
takes a long time to dry -- well now, I have some BC in my woodshed and it is good and dry, nearly as good as cedar for kindling. The stuff in the woodshed only took about 3 years to dry.
One more 'advantage' to BC, rots even faster than alder,
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