Now I'm not so sure. A couple years ago I had a widow maker hanging over my woods road and I used a come-along to pull it down. This came down with it. At first I thought it was sugar maple but after cutting it I knew it wasn't (very fragrant) so I assumed it was black birch. I burned some the other night and it pops more than the pine I burn. It burns wicked fast, but doesn't throw a ton of heat. The bark is thick and gets very stringy. The entire trunk had lots of burls where branches had broken off and over grown. Any idea on what it is?
Bark looks a bit like mature aspen. Not much heat sounds like it too. poplar/aspen isn't usually mistaken for black birch by "fragrance" though.
Yep, looks like the poplar/cotton wood we have here in western New York. I’ve taken a load here and there if it’s easy pickins but don’t go out of my way. Last load was one of the reasons I went and bought hydraulics!
Cottonwood from where I sit. Smells a little spicy sometimes, dries down to feather light, and burns real fast.
Looks like mature Popple to me, commonly called Aspen in some areas. Poplar is similar but a completely different tree.
Looks kinda like tulip poplar to me. Stringy bark, green tint to heart and popping. Can't hardly burn that in an open fireplace. Throws coals out.
That looks like tulip poplar to me. I'd never describe it as fragrant, though! I just stuffed the stove with a load for quick heat this morning.
That looks identical to some sort of hybrid poplar tree I cut and burned a few years ago. I have never had any stringy tulip poplar but that hybrid stuff was stringy as can be
The wood itself is straight grained and very easy to split. The stringy stuff looks like long grass clippings under the bark.
In my area of Wisconsin, we call that “popple” throws about as much heat as basswood which isn’t much
