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Those flat bark ridges, and the green/purple heart do look like Tulip Poplar... After dissing this wood for a long time, I'm gonna get some stacked this year and see how it does compared to soft Maple...might be pretty close. For sure, I'm going to get a bunch of small dead ones and use it for kindling. It seems to ignite really fast! Quite a bit of it in our woods...
Ram 1500 with an axe...
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Good stuff to start and finish burning with, especially like last year so many were running out of wood, I would take it and get it CSS as soon as possible.....
Ralphie Boy
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Yep, tulip poplar, dries fast, burns fast, and leaves a lot of ash. Other than the ash, good shoulder season wood and good for jump starting hard to start woods like locust.
I use Poplar pretty often. It splits like a dream, and dries very fast. Unless you can keep it under roof, I wouldn't keep it around for more than 1 season. It turns punky pretty quick. I still get 16 hour burns with it pretty easily! I prefer it over most maples.
red oak
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16 hour burns? I've never gotten that with poplar. In my experience it burns pretty fast. Good for taking a chill off the house but not much else.
He no doubt had better stuff to burn. Back then, they didn't have BKs that would go 12 hrs on a load of Tulip. Smoke-blower probably went through a load in 2 hrs.
I recently read that Tulip and Sweetgum will out-compete other species but haven't really seen that here...
I'd love to be able to add it to the rotation because there's plenty to be had here...and 'fast-drying' is always a plus.
I cut one last year down the block, thinking it was a White Ash. I saw it from the car, then went and cut it and was crestfallen when I saw that green and purple heart. It's still lying there, and is on my wife's cousin's property....he is just about out of wood after last winter, so I need to check it out and see how it held up. He had some stacked for two years with a top cover, and it held up OK...
red oak
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Good point! I run an old Fisher Papa Bear so I'm sure the results are much better with a newer stove.
The two biggest trees in the wooded 4 1/2 acre part of this place are Tulip Poplars. Those suckers are huge. The big red and white oaks have shallow roots and blow over frequently. The Tulip Pops just stand there and laugh at'em.
Years ago I heated this joint the whole winter with the stuff. And that is when we were both at work all day with a 72 mile round trip commute.
Years ago I heated this joint the whole winter with the stuff. And that is when we were both at work all day with a 72 mile round trip commute.
Thanks for the ID
My summer activities are going to put my wood processing on hold til fall.
Will popular get punky between now and Oct/Nov ?
My summer activities are going to put my wood processing on hold til fall.
Will popular get punky between now and Oct/Nov ?
You had a large round there. I know its crazy to suggest stacking them. I roll rounds so the bark is in contact with the soil or onto gravel or pavement to slow decomposition. Its the molds and fungi that grow in the wet environment.
Your photo was an excellent example of Tulip tree wood. Thanks for posting it.
Your photo was an excellent example of Tulip tree wood. Thanks for posting it.
I think it should be OK. I like to put something under any rounds I stack to avoid contact with the ground; Pallets, long, straight limbs, what have you...
TimJ
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