Biggest Poplar I've Ever Seen

Hence why I'm getting, splitting, and selling it to the hipsters around me and keeping my oak, locust, and hickory

 

Respect for a man who takes care of his equipment

 

Yep beech and oak are all part of fagacea family. And yellow poplar isn't an actual poplar. All things that we learn as foresters and take for granted and must keep remembering most people not all here but most people don't realize these things.

 

Learn something new every day

 

I've been burning tulip poplar splits in my fireplace primarily more than any other species over the last year, mainly due to the large tree I had cut down, was already here and I found to be very easy to split. I have white oak, hickory, cherry, and red oak to burn over the next several years though, which I am looking forward to. But tulip poplar has gotten the job done for me - I also do not run a wood stove so I am not quite as concerned with the low BTU's.

(pardon my mistake if I'm still addressing the tree species incorrectly but tulip poplar is what everyone I know calls it in NC)

 

If you'd like to know more, I haven't found anything better than the book I mentioned in my previous thread.

 

Just ordered it, thanx

 

I'm up here in the Tennessee Mountains. There blue ridge parkway is lined with plenty of poplar bigger than this one.

 

I have one that's probably close to 4ft on my place on the line. A couple really big ones just over the line on the neighbors property they cut when they logged that place several years back.

 

I hope to get back on that road again w/ my motor sickle. What an epic journey.

 

Are you sure that's one tree, and not 2 tree's that grew up vying for the same real estate? The bark it just so very different...if it is all one tree, that is CRAZY!

 

Looks like two trees to me, too, but I haven't stood next to it.

 

The inflation we’ve seen has me believing in keeping extras of a many different things on hand, especially the consumables!

 

and bar oil!

 

My grandparents, who lived through the great depression, were kinda sorta hoarders...I'm starting to understand it to some degree.

 

Same here except my folks. Grew up watching them be frugal and very conservative with money.
Guess it was my destiny to end up here!

 

Yup, you can argue genetics, or environment, but either way, that crap can be hard to shake!

 

I too hoard stuff. Equipment type things mostly. This nasty Poplar I didn't hoard. Took it down and bucked for a friend a couple years back. Nasty thing.

 

It's 100% two different species of trees. That was my first thought never thought it was the same tree? I see others think the same thing.