Poplar Trees/wood - any value ?

Goweresque

Goweresque

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North Wilts
bakerboy said:
Well chaps. Good news to some of your ears. Poplar isn't useless. Yes it's cheap but it's used in the restoration business. It makes excellent replacements on things like drawer runners on chest of drawers as it rarely has large knots in it, the grain doesn't have too much variation in density and although it's harder than Pine it's still softer than using hardwood, they also used poplar black poplar/ for brake blocks/bands on traction engines, Iv used it a few times for that with good results. Just some useful information for you there.
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Ah, good to see a new market for farm timber. I hear those steam contraptions are going to be everywhere soon.
 
czechmate

czechmate

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Mixed Farmer
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Limousin/Charentes toad land
It's good for growing mistletoe. If there was a market for the stuff here I could make my fortune.
Must admit, I have been planning to start this thread for a couple of years as I need to clear a couple of hundred out the way. Big bonfire by the looks:(. Having an infinite supply of oak and hornbeam for the woodburners doesn't inspire me to even bother with it fir that
 
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Hesston4860s

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Nr Lincoln
czechmate said:
It's good for growing mistletoe. If there was a market for the stuff here I could make my fortune.
Must admit, I have been planning to start this thread for a couple of years as I need to clear a couple of hundred out the way. Big bonfire by the looks:(. Having an infinite supply of oak and hornbeam for the woodburners doesn't inspire me to even bother with it fir that
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At least you've only got a couple of hundred, I've got over 10 thousand of the ffuking things !. I cut 85 down last year, can't even see where I've been.
 
Davey

Davey

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Derbyshire
I took down half a dozen poplars a few years ago. Even when fully seasoned they stank to high heaven when burnt!

Wasn't so bad as I chucked them in a outside biomass boiler but no way would I want them in the house.
 
Pasty

Pasty

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Location
Devon
I've always got on well with Poplar. It's a good early winter firewood as it will soak up moisture again when the January rains come in. Like Willow, it's a hardwood but doesn't behave like one. Both grow like hell of course. Maybe will depend on the variant that was planted.
 
Y Fan Wen

Y Fan Wen

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Location
N W Snowdonia
Bury the Trash said:
its pretty poor stuff.and most people dont rate it - but here we burn it through the woodburner when its had time to dry.and actually we never waste it. but down by the river it grows very quickly and like a weed and self sows quite easily .but along side it grows a lot of alder which i prefer - that as quick growing fuel.
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Alder was always specified as the charcoal for making gunpowder.
 

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