I do reference the one with the drying times.. I don’t see tulip poplar on there however. From other posts I gather it is somewhere between (aspen) poplar and silver maple. I was wondering about these ornamental cherries that I have been piecemealing. I think they might be significantly more dense/ higher BTU, than their faster growing, wild cousins on the chart.
Get that tulip split and it’ll be ready for next year. The wood drys fast. If the bark comes off so much the better. If it’s firmly attached and fast drying is wanted I split it off in board like fashion. Normally I’m not worried about how fast I get a pile topcovered. June thru sept usually dries up a bit with heat. Those are the months I want it covered to get moisture out of the wood. But if it’s a rainy year you never can tell. I burned mostly all tulip this year. In my soapstone stove it gave nice heat. Problem was the coals were gone before the stone cooled off to the temp I would normally reload. Did a whole lot of relights this year. It disappears fast in the stove. If you have plenty of it like I do it’s not even bad for the real cold spells. You can keep stuffing it in and not worry about getting a huge bed of coals like oak. Keep the stove up at max temp without going through a coaling stage. But you will be busy fetching and stuffing
Yellow poplar smells acrid when burning. Good SS wood though...and usually quite plentiful. I've burned a couple cords over the last 3 years. There was a load of wood left in the log yard at the neighbors after the loggers left.
I split the tulip this afternoon mrfancyplants, very easy. First time for me! Dunno if ill scrounge more.
Hey, it dries quick, splits easy and lights good. Makes a good mix in wood, helps burn down coals, better than some woods out there. Get it when you can
I had a co-worker several years ago that identified every tree as Dogwood, he could tell by the bark!
I second this!! Basically all I burned my first year, popular and ash.. I'm surprised you don't have it NH mountain man .. We just call it popple or poplar here..
The one I mapped is called tulip or yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera).I think there are a variety of species that get lumped in to the “poplar” common name. Magnolia family, interesting.
mrfancyplants .. I wish I knew how to put a link on with the phone but it was just won't do it. There is an 11 foot. DBH tree in Bennington, VT our largest tree.. not trying to argue, but I'm pretty sure that map is wrong. Because I didn't know how to spell that off the top of my head
i often wonder how accurate those maps are and if they are updated. Maybe the tree didnt read the map! When is the FHC spelling bee?
