Yes it is. That's why I try to drop any live tree that I want to want to burn in 2 years, before that sap flows.
Poplar is bloody heavy when it's wet. I took a few truckloads from a guy as a favor since he did me huge with a three stemmed hickory and a big red oak. Unfortunately, this particular poplar was about 30"+dbh and located downhill from his septic field where I couldn't drive... so the rounds were hauled up hill in the 90 degree heat on a hand truck. "It's poplar!" I thought. "How heavy can it be?" Well, I learned..
In high school I took a soils and conservation class. The teacher was trying to teach us how to measure a tree at DBH. Take a string with a thumbtack and wrap it around the tree at breast height. Measure the string with a tape measure then go find a calculator and divide your string measurement by pi 3.14 or some stupid algebra computation. Well this dumb farm kid said why don't you just take a freaking yardstick and hold the damm thing up to the tree and leave the string tack tape measure calculator etc in the truck and do it the easy way? Teacher said that is incorrect "this is the way they taught me in college". I thought his way was about the stupidest thing I ever heard of but I was just a dumb farmers son,,,,,
Circumference = Pi *D Circumference of the tree divided by Pi gives tree Diameter. That's why tree huggers hug tree's, to determine size. Thx for the DBH explanation. edit.. from the son of a farmers son who became a math teacher.
My My, aren't you the pithy one. It's not firewood if she turns it into furniture, or shovel/axe handles.
Our first disagreement Chaz.... those things will burn, too If it were some poplar, I wouldn’t want to use it for ax/shovel handle.... best suited as BTU’s
