More Tulip poplar

Had another tulip close to the house I been needing to drop. It wasn't too hard on the back as most of you know poplar isn't exactly white oak in weight. It works well down in my climate though so I cut a good bit of it. Poplar and red maple is very plentiful around here

 

The thing about tulip poplar is that it grows like weeds. I have some behind the house that I can not drop. the best way would be to rent a lift and take them down from the top. I still have a bunch of poplar from last year that is seasoned and will be burned this year. If the rain moves away I may haul some poplar that was cut the first of the year before leaves and get it up to the house and split.

 

May I ask about the structure behind the wood in the first photo? What is it?

 

That's an old quail pen that I converted into a plant box on the top for my wife.

 

Any Tulip I grab are dead-standers that get split small for starter wood, but I prefer soft Maple, particularly Red, for starter. Right now, most of the low-output wood I use in bigger splits is Black Cherry.

 

I used to find Morell's under TP.

 

Good wood for the kids to learn how to split. Easy so they get a lot of positive reinforcement.

 

Love the T.P. Grows fast, cuts easy, dries fast, but burns fast. Great wood for me, since I have gobs of it and I needed fast drying wood to get started.

 

I've got plenty of T.P. C/S/S now, so lately I've been trying to save the bigger, clearer logs for milling into lumber. It's been working out great. Tops and junky stuff for firewood and the better logs for lumber.

 

Yeah, lots of mushrooms thrive in that sort of environment....moist, laden with fertilizer, coverd with Toilet Paper...
Wait a minute-you talking about tulip poplar?

 

Good looking stacks rebelduckman ! Keep that 13 fed well and happy!

 

Glad you went there yooperdave , because u was going to go there.



Those brown spots are not mushrooms on the TP.

 

The cross reference with T.P. was definitely intentional. Glad you picked it up.

 

I'm a recent graduate of the Eric VW School of Puns and Humor Detection! You know...PHD?

 

And most of Eric VW 's puns are two thirds of a pun--a real P U

 

Everyone says this. I have lots of tulip poplars in my woods. BUT, I never see morels. Then again, I've never ever been able to find them in the wild, only on my dinner plate that someone else has found.

 

Reb, how long are those landscape timbers?

 

8ft