This aggressive bark is throwing me off and there like 6 dead standing of this tree in the new sweet ash hoard spot. No limbs on em really they seem solid. ????
I ll have to see if any other polars are around that area. I just didnt think polars had bark like that. Iv cut some recently about that big but the bark was much less deep and aggressive
Looks like older aspen which i believe is AKA cottonwood. Not sure if the aspen around here is the same as cottonwood out West. I remember a thread about this a while back.
Looks just like what I burned last year. Everyone on here said Poplar (or the local variant) I thought I knew what this was... If you cut one up its very fragrant
Theres quite a few of them we’ll see maybe Wednesday or Thursday , we have the little guys wrestling practice tomorrow. Not to hopeful on the quality after the first one i cut today was punk.
Looks like Aspen, called popple in my neck of the woods. Past their prime and died out. If they were cut while still alive you would see hundreds of saplings sprouting up from the root system as far as they reach. Goes punky quick and snaps and pops alot in the firepit.
That’s not any aspen I’ve ever seen. Aspen has a relatively smooth, white and black bark. The area I live in is about 70% aspen. Eh, maybe 50% - but still. Doesn’t look anything like that. This is aspen bark.
The “aspen” on the east coast I believe is big tooth aspen but I could be totally wrong. The aspen in the Rockies and out west is quaking aspen....the pictures you posted with the white bark. Where I live people like to burn aspen (quaking) after burning ponderosa pine and pinyon pine because both those pines burn “dirty”. If you have glass that has black spots on it burn a load of quaking aspen and it cleans right up. All the black soot burns off and your glass is clear again. The belief is that this works on your chimney as well. Burns hot with little to no smoke. It splits easily and seasons in a year. BTU on charts I use rate it slightly higher than ponderosa pine and less than Douglas Fir. From a quick internet search on bigtooth aspen bark it seems the older more mature trees develop that aggressive deep furrowed bark near the bottom part of the trunk.
Yep. You nailed it. I burn a lot of it. Burns surprisingly hot, but fast. And it does clean out the flu and glass.
ThanksTimberdog . Ours start out smooth in various shades of white to greenish and develop the rough texture as they mature.
The guy that trained me in the woods always told me poplar is a stinky wood. He never burned it inside for that reason, but i see people saying they burn it here. I guess ill leave it though since i can get so many other species. Atleast i know If i needed to it sounds like i can burn it from what iv heard on here. I do have some logs of it at the quarry to do up for kindling maybe, iv read its pretty good for that.
I have quite a few tulip poplar on the property. Healthy trees. Rarely get to burn them from the woods. Had a big one taken down in the yard about three years ago. Still burning that wood at times. It’s not a bad wood at all IMO. Burns fairly hot, very clean but very fast. It’s not something you use for overnight burns unless you rarely sleep. The worst thing about it is the bark. Best to leave a green log sit until the bark loosens. There’s a layer of sponge underneath the bark that hold water forever. Wouldn’t be surprised if the bark gave it the reputation as stinky wood. it doesn’t coal much at all. That can be a good thing at times. Been pushing your stove hard and have too many coals? Toss a load or two of tulip in there and heat your house while the coals disappear. Last year I burned it almost exclusively. Needed it gone. Because it leaves no coals you can skip the entire coaling stage. I found it’s easier to keep the house heated by the stove only without the coaling. Can keep the stove temps up high. Course I rarely sleep and it’s like feeding a locomotive. Never ending job My first and last attempt at splitting vertical.
Great info thanks, im gonna going to bring that poplar home from the quarry and try it myself, they told me about the bark back when i first cut it at the quarry. Those have much smoother bark. Im definitely going to process it. Those are some extremely large rounds. Im not a big fan of vertical splitting either.
