Yooperforeman
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Does White Poplar make good firewood? What's it worth $ per face cord? I have a few that need to be cut,and I thought I might as well make firewood out of it.I've never burned it in a woodstove.
poplar for firewood
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Burns very fast people will be mad if you sell them that.It will be good for your own burning.
darkbyrd
Forest Hugger
They'll be mad if you sell it by the load, but if you wrap it in plastic and put a handle on it, you'll get $5/cu ft!
shelbythedog
ArboristSite Operative
I've gotten quite a bit of poplar from my neighbor's property, all blow downs and leaners. Much agreed with those above, it is a good wood to burn when you are around the house and can tend the fire pretty often. If you are selling, don't ask for top dollar and someone will take it off your hands.
kodiakattack
ArboristSite Operative
I like to have a pile around to help burn down the coals before i load the stove up for the night.
russhd1997
Innocent By Stander
It burns fast and hot and doesn't make coals. I burn it during the day in my OWB to help keep the coal build up in check. In my maple syrup evaporator it is rocket fuel.
Yoopermike
ArboristSite Guru
I agree with the others about selling it, unless its for camp fire wood. I have cut and burnt it myself, but its a pain in the a$$. Kind of a double edged sword if you will. On one side it burns ice and hot but, the other it burns just as fast as pine. I see your a fellow Yooper, what parts??
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Yooperforeman
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Southern Delta Co.
I need to get the trees out of there.I was thinking about $25.00/face cord or else I'll just give it away.
I need to get the trees out of there.I was thinking about $25.00/face cord or else I'll just give it away.
branchbuzzer
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They'll be mad if you advertise it as "hardwood", but not if you are up front about what it is and price it accordingly. I sometimes get requests for it specifically - sometimes it's for mild days, some people use it in old-style cookstoves when they don't need a long fire ( summer ). I can't imagine there's going to be a hot market for it by the cord in the UP tho. The trouble with selling poplar by cords is that it still needs to be cut, still needs to be hauled. So if you sell it at half-price of oak, your margin is going to be pretty slim.
Definitely the best way to sell it.
It does make coals, they just don't last very long. If you blink you'll miss them. You can make it last a bit longer by leaving it a big as possible and reducing the surface area on it, just like folks out west do with huge cottonwood pieces.
I actually burn a lot of it since my house isn't too large and that lets me sell more of the high density stuff like oak and locust.
Yoopermike
ArboristSite Guru
Id think $25 per is a good price. Im in Alger co. I might know a few people interested.. lemmie ask around.
bcorradi
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I agree with what others have said. A lot around here burn green poplar in their OWB and prefer it, but I'm not 100% sure why. I seen a local guy selling poplar for $50 per pickup load so your price is pretty fair.
MN Ripper
ArboristSite Operative
That is what our local gas station sells it for and I thought the DNR tag bundled with it said .75 cu ft! Whoever processes it for them has a good thing going they sell a lot of it even in the summer.
darkbyrd
Forest Hugger
Thats where I see it too. I guess it's for the rich folks and their pretty fireplaces and a cuddle. I'm with the other guys. If it's easy, or in the way anyway, I'll work it up. Leave it big, and it's good if you're home or in the warmer season. I even keep some around in the winter for a quick warmup in the morning of if I don't load the stove soon enough and it almost goes out. Here what we have is yellow (tulip) poplar. Different species than you have up north I think, but burns the same. Heavy when wet, light like pine when dry.
It's great fire starter wood when dry.
I cut the older Poplar trees on my property and split them into small kindling for just that purpose.
I would never buy it as heating wood.
Maple, Oak, Cherry or Ash is what I burn for that.
Maybe the odd Yellow or White Birch.
Good Luck
I cut the older Poplar trees on my property and split them into small kindling for just that purpose.
I would never buy it as heating wood.
Maple, Oak, Cherry or Ash is what I burn for that.
Maybe the odd Yellow or White Birch.
Good Luck
alleyyooper
Addicted to ArboristSite
We call it gofur wood.Place aq load in the wood burner and go fur a nother load.
But in the summer a truck load of it goes reall fast at the state forest camp ground. A arm load & and a big unsplit round for an evening camp fire sells for $10.00 off the back of the truck.
City slickers don't know popple from teak.
Al
But in the summer a truck load of it goes reall fast at the state forest camp ground. A arm load & and a big unsplit round for an evening camp fire sells for $10.00 off the back of the truck.
City slickers don't know popple from teak.
Algenesis5521
ArboristSite Operative
Hi Yooperforeman:
I don't sell firewood, but I burn a ton of Poplar (just because it's available on my land) in the wood stove in my living room. It burns fast and hot, and I have to keep adding it to the stove on a really cold day. But overall, I'm OK with it as it's "free".
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branchbuzzer
Undiagnosed
Not if all ya need is one load to heat the house up.....
We're not burning the wrong wood, you're just living in the wrong state!
logbutcher
Addicted to ArboristSite
Heavy, dense, no BTUs, a PITA wood. Better off burning pine, spruce, or fir.
Butt, if that's all you got, dance with it. :alien2:
Butt, if that's all you got, dance with it. :alien2:
"Here what we have is yellow (tulip) poplar. Different species than you have up north I think, but burns the same. Heavy when wet, light like pine when dry. "
Here in PA it is the same - tulip poplar. Grows fast and big and falls easily...
Here in PA it is the same - tulip poplar. Grows fast and big and falls easily...
