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Just have to split now, which will be easy with the fiskers. Love poplar for kindling and for a quick burst of heat. Dries out quick down here 3-6 months easy. We've got an area about 5 acres that is full of just about all poplarFinished bucking up the last of a poplar for kindling
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Just have to split now, which will be easy with the fiskers. Love poplar for kindling and for a quick burst of heat. Dries out quick down here 3-6 months easy. We've got an area about 5 acres that is full of just about all poplar
Looks like you got it before it got too big. Some of the farmers around me girdle them to kill the roots as well but I dont know if that works. Since they are so aggressive about coppicing.
I noticed all my beech trees are coming back from the stumps.
Do you have any leaves? To show us?
Nice wood stack.
I noticed all my beech trees are coming back from the stumps.
Do you have any leaves? To show us?
Nice wood stack.
Lake Girl
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Looks a bit different than our local poplar - our bark is often whiter. Poplar and willow seem to be the bane of my yard - pop up as quickly as the weeds.
kennyp2339
Minister of Fire
You the man 
, love those stacks, your one of the few that understand cutting, splitting, and drying time.
, love those stacks, your one of the few that understand cutting, splitting, and drying time.That's great stuff. If you pick the straight grain trees between 10-15 inch diameter they split perfectly and dry quickly. A few weeks ago I cut and split a pickup load of the stuff for my hunting camp use in October.
This is Tulip "Poplar." Not a true Poplar, but actually a member of the Magnolia family. It's a little better in the BTU department, about 16 MBTU/cord.
We have a lot of Poplar in our local woods. When I first started burning I burned a lot of it the first year since it dried fast and it was easy to come by. I still mix some into my racks. It's always a guaranteed easy starting wood for sure!
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