Good friend made me real deal on my big new dump trailer, part of the deal was taking down this 40" Poplar tree. No pics of the actual cutting as we were working shot handed, but here's the aftermath. Cold rain/snow mix early on & wet mushy yard made for very unpleasant working conditions, but we got it done. He's got some firewood guys coming to get it tomorrow, and they can have it. Nasty wet heavy stuff with water running out of the saw cuts. Made for a long day, but it's done.
No I didn't, but Ray said he moved there forty years ago and it was there then. My guess is 60 to 70 years old. Ha yeah only where it's not mud.
Big sucker there. Nice work AC! Looks like the saw herd made short work of it. I hate cutting in sloppy conditions, but we get it done.
Wow. That was a big one. I scrounged about cord of poplar about a year ago. I cut it, split it and stacked it, and am burning it this winter as it is very dry already. You mentioned that poplar can be very moist when green, but do you feel that it also dries quickly? It seems like it dries much faster than other hardwoods like red oak.
It does dry real fast. I CSS some tulip (yellow) polar a couple years ago and it was ready for the following Fall.
Yeah. That's what I'm seeing as well. It was heavy to lift, easy to split, dries very fast, and burns kinda quickly with a medium heat.
Smaug , poplar is a softwood and a quick drying one at that. It's really heavy with water when green, but split it and it dries really quickly. Like 1 summer after split and stacked and it will be dry.
Weeelll...not to split hairs (or needles) but only needle bearing trees are actually classified as softwoods...broad leaves go as "hardwood" (although it is a "soft" hardwood)
All of those are from the populus genus. The tulip poplar isn't really a poplar. It's a magnolia. I know, confusing, right?
Not up here in paper pulp country. Poplars, and similar trees are referred to as pulpwood aka softwood. Needle bearers are conifers. Yes, it's really just a way of sorting out the better hardwood from the lower density stuff.
Yeah, just cause Hork has a TP mill or two in the neighborhood, he thinks he's an expert I prefer real conifer pulp TP on my tushy... Got that coffee goin yet BSB?!
