I like TP!

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EJP1234

Burning Hunk
Mar 19, 2015
105
Greensboro, MD
Tulip Poplar that is...

I've read so many times people passing off TP as junk..

I scrounged up a good bit of TP this past early spring.. I split it almost instantly... I started burning this past week, and I went straight for the TP as I figure if all else it would be good shoulder wood...

Well the last two days here in MD it's been more like winter than early fall. It's currently 29-30* outside, and I just got a decent 8hr burn out of a medium load of TP all night, house is 74*'s and I reloaded it...

It seasoned really fast, burns great in my cat stove, and appears to be plenty warm...

I will not be shrugging my nose at TP ever, it seems great to me.
 
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I thought you were going to explain how you were visiting Venezuela and.....never mind.;)

It all burns. Cotton wood, Tulip Poplar, Boxelder, etc. It all makes heat. I like having some of the lesser woods in my stack. Quick startups or when I need to carry the fire for an hour or two before a full overnight reload...that kind of stuff.
 
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Good deal. :)

We burned a lot of tulip poplar back in the day. Had a couple large, dying forest poplars dropped in the front yard. Burned the entire lot in one winter. It is good firewood, kept the house warm. The downside to poplar is it burns pretty quickly.
 
I've got an entire cord sitting on my front yard of tulip poplar. Fantastic kindling and starter wood. Also great for heating up the stove quickly so the secondary burn tubes get rocking. What part of Maryland are you in? I'm down in Calvert County.
 
EJP1234 said:
Tulip Poplar that is...

I've read so many times people passing off TP as junk..

I scrounged up a good bit of TP this past early spring.. I split it almost instantly... I started burning this past week, and I went straight for the TP as I figure if all else it would be good shoulder wood...

Well the last two days here in MD it's been more like winter than early fall. It's currently 29-30* outside, and I just got a decent 8hr burn out of a medium load of TP all night, house is 74*'s and I reloaded it...

It seasoned really fast, burns great in my cat stove, and appears to be plenty warm...

I will not be shrugging my nose at TP ever, it seems great to me.
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An 8 hour burn from it!! I have some I am going to burn soon..looking forward to it.
 
I burn all of the "garbage wood", Cottonwood, Boxelder. A lot of it you can find dumped off, and I grab it up and use it early in the season. I can't see burning my good wood when it's not that cold out. It throws heat, for me it's easy to split and it seasons fast. I got it 75 in here the other night when it was 19 outside. Works for me!
 
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Tulip Poplar gets a bad rep because it has the name poplar. It is pretty good firewood if you ask me.
 
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I burn at least a full cord of tulip poplar every year. I get it free from tree companies here in Maryland. Splits easy, Burns hot, and leaves just powder ash. Plus, it dries in 6 months to 20%mc.

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I Use pop and pine year round. Mixed with harder species btw.
I cut the splits large so they have less surface area and burn as normal
shutting down the intake to just a small stream of airflow.
It must work. The fam sits around in shorts and tees in the dead
of the season.

CheapMark
 
The War Department made me open a window this past January one night when the outside temps got into the 40s. It shot up to over 80 inside the house. Damned tulip poplar.

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Yep. It can be hot burning. It's good mixed with harder hardwoods. Personally, I like it
a lot and have burned a bunch of it over the years. An Oak + Tulip Poplar mix works
well for me. When a fire has died down, a Poplar split will get it going again- faster.
Then throw some more Oak in...

A lot of folks confuse our eastern Yellow Poplar with Popple. Just not the same stuff.
Popple is indeed junky wood, from what I've heard. But Tulip Poplar is worth having...
 
I can't complain. The stuff dries incredibly fast. I've got a cord leftover from last year and I'm excited to see how it burns after 18 months of seasoning time.

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I have some left from last year. I scavenged freshly cut tulip last spring that was left near the road. I burned some last winter in my fireplace. It’s a beautiful light colored wood freshly split. Growing up everything went into the wood stoves we’ve had, from old cedar fence posts and construction scraps to oaks taken down in the neighborhood.
 
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