Tulip poplar that is. Passed this last week. Recent cutting back from the wires. Stopped and checked it out. Knocked and got the okay to cut and take. Hit it today. First load out today. 462 & 500i taking turns doing the honors. Record high temps and i cut in short sleeves. Whats left. Split this first then a return trip. Very low on SS wood. Pot luck what i score and when.
Very nice score Brad. Tulip is great to hoard every now and again. That has to be the most colorful one I’ve ever seen! Usually I find it with a green core and only hints of purple. That grain could almost pass for a psychedelic fractal art painting
The trunk log was bucked first and i thought the color was cool. I dont recall cutting one with that color in it. Ive seen it on pallet wood. All the nuggets have been split including those pieces.
, Nice grab! No idea what tulip poplar is. Cool looking wood though. The green grass and lack of snow is tripping me out!
Fast growing low btu wood. Great shoulder season wood. Splits easily and dries as fast as six months. The rounds were spitting as i was sectioning the with the isocore.
Nearly two years since in quantity. Ironically in East Haven as this score was. Wouldnt mind getting more.
There's some big stuff in that load! Poplar tends to split pretty straight and makes a nice addition to bundle wood, especially in the summer.
Bundle wood is where the primo splits are destined. I mix it with the denser hardwoods (maple, birch, beech oak etc.) to keep the weight down. I also have an elderly couple who burn indoors year round so i try to keep their half cords mostly shoulder woods as well.
Nice score! I call it "hero" wood. You hit a round with an X27 and it blows apart like Paul Bunyon himself whacked it!
That's a nice score. Big logs too. It's also great for throwing on some coals to get the fire going quick.
I have seen one 'tulip tree' here and I thought it was an ornamental, transplanted. Whatever it was, it was big like that. The native range of tulip poplar ends east of here. I was thinking we have 'poplar' trees but maybe that is tulip poplar. We do have boatloads of cottonwood trees in the river delta lands, at least. They grow big. I've always heard they are a low quality hardwood. I need to score one sometime and see how it burns because what you guys call shoulder wood can work fine here, as we do not have your brutal cold. Yet, oak is the most popular firewood by far!
That's a common area of discussion here regarding poplars. This one is also known as yellow poplar. When in bloom the flowers resemble tulips hence the name. We also have aspen, cottonwood, and poplar. The name "poplar" commonly used to describe the first two.
The man who had the tulip poplar in his front yard, I asked him what kind of tree it is because it was blooming and I had never seen one. He said it was tulip poplar and he didn't like it and I don't recall why but it seems it would have to be some kind of nuisance in his yard for him to say that. I dunno, but I do know that cottonwood has these cottony seed things that float around by the gazillions when they release from the tree. Other than that, a cottonwood can make a decent shade tree for cattle. And humans!
My guess is the mess the tulip makes. The flowers dry and later disperse seeds and the pods so they can be messy. We have a couple just into out woods. The seeds and pods litter the yard. Birds love the seeds. Ive seen cottonwood "snow" before.
