Tree firewood species identification

[lone wolf]

Yea this tulip poplar fell and nailed this old chevy

Will it buff out?

 

[Andyshine77]

Yup it isTulip huh.

Cut a lot of it in my day, have quite a lot of it around this area, some of the larger trees we have. Sadly it's soft and makes crap firewood, light as a feather when dry. Straight grain splits easy, rots fast. Better than Cotton wood or Basswood though. It's probably going to be one of the more dominant species with all the ash gone, which was about my favorite firewood.

 

[unclemoustache]

Just so you all know, the Tulip Poplar tree is not in the poplar family. Nor is it related to the tulip.
It’s in the Magnolia family.
Go figure.

 

[Dangerous]

Cut a lot of it in my day, have quite a lot of it around this area, some of the larger trees we have. Sadly it's soft and makes crap firewood, light as a feather when dry. Straight grain splits easy, rots fast. Better than Cotton wood or Basswood though. It's probably going to be one of the more dominant species with all the ash gone, which was about my favorite firewood.

Locust is my Favorite fire wood more btu than oak.

 

[Andyshine77]

Locust is my Favorite fire wood more btu than oak.

Absolutely! Just don't have enough of it!

 

[lone wolf]

Absolutely! Just don't have enough of it!

Splits real nice too.

 

[Andyshine77]

Just so you all know, the Tulip Poplar tree is not in the poplar family. Nor is it related to the tulip.
It’s in the Magnolia family.
Go figure.

Lol never thought it was related to a Tulip, but I did think it was a poplar, like Cottonwood.

 

[Firemaker1111]

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[AKoz]

It’s definitely a poplar tree. Sometimes called a tulip poplar or a yellow poplar. I’ve milled thousands of them over the years. When it seasons it will make for a great fall and late spring wood to burn and will be much lighter. It’s a relatively fast burning wood. The green hue will quickly turn tan to brown when exposed to the outside world. Sometimes there is even purple and black heartwood.

So what do you or your customers do with the lumber? It's so light when it dries that I just assume it's not very strong.
I believe in this area they were used to make peach crates because this part of NJ used to be know for peaches.