Will poplar keep for a year

Popple is pretty much like any other wood. split and stacked, and kept dry, it will keep for a long time

I know for sure one year (and it still looks good) and I hear two or three years.

CSS it will last three years (maybe more but have seen it last three).

On the ground in rounds...punky within a year.

in my experiance keep it dry and off the ground. I love poplar if im going to be at home to feed it.

Last year I burned poplar that the PO had cut and stacked into rounds several years before--I'm guessing around 5-6 based on the level of detritus on them and the fact that I'd had the property for 2-3 years at that point.

The bottom round was gone, for the most part and the top was pretty punked out. The stuff in between? I'd burn it the rest of my life if I could get it. And it hadn't been split.

I'm in interior Alaska, and I think our wood grows a little differently here, because the wood that other people call garbage wood is what we depend upon to heat our houses: birch is the good stuff, and spruce comes next, and poplar/aspen/cottonwood is considered at the bottom of the heap. All I know is that stuff was golden, and I got up to almost a 12 hour, heat-producing burn (not just `oh look, there are a few coals left) out of the poplar. I spoke to someone who said he'd been heating his wood for more than 20 years and all he burned was poplar. He cut it down into four foot lengths, stack them like lincoln logs, and the next year he'd cut to length and split.

Even if it wasn't good wood, I'd ask myself if this was a good neighbor.

Keep it dry and it will last for a long time. Around here the 100+ year old log cabins and covered bridges were made out of yellow-poplar. A few boards get replaced here-and-there, but they are still standing.

The beginning of the season I was burning poplar cut/split in March of 09, I'll burn the rest of it in the spring. Only knock on it I have is the amount of ash it leaves behind.

Majority of my wood is poplar from a huge score 2 years ago. Seasons quick, burns quick and hot. Dont discriminate

poplar or tulip?

woodmiser said:

poplar or tulip?

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Yes, there is a big difference between poplar and tulip. And the log cabins were also sometimes built with popple but they did not last long. With yellow poplar it is a different story.

My area is infested with big yellow poplar (tulip).

I split and covered 2 cord of Cottonwood over 2.5 years ago. It's now burning as perfectly as Cottonwood burns (fast and hot). The splits show no signs of decay. The trick is to get them off the ground, keep air spaces between stacks, and definitely cover.

Tony, I thought you had burned all that cottonwood. Well, it should for sure burn well now.

Backwoods Savage said:

Tony, I thought you had burned all that cottonwood. Well, it should for sure burn well now.

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Dennis:

That Cottonwood tree was huge, we will be burning that stuff at least through next year. I almost never fully load the firebox with Cottonwood, I use it mainly for stretch fires and to reheat a cold firebox.

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Backwoods Savage said:

Tony, I thought you had burned all that cottonwood. Well, it should for sure burn well now.

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Dennis:

That Cottonwood tree was huge, we will be burning that stuff at least through next year. I almost never fully load the firebox with Cottonwood, I use it mainly for stretch fires and to reheat a cold firebox.

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And we know cottonwood can get pretty big. Here is a picture of my wife.

The OP has yet to respond. What is all the talk about cottonwood?

Yellow Poplar is a tulip tree... not poplar at all. It's a Magnolia. It does punk up easy if let lying around on the ground. Not great heat output but burns like pine.. crackley.