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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.
 
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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.

Burns very fast people will be mad if you sell them that.It will be good for your own burning.
 
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good shoulder season or day wood - cut's and splits easy. I do NOT go out of my way for it and it's mostly is in my stacks because I wanted to clear the space (or a storm did it for me!)
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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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Burns very fast people will be mad if you sell them that.It will be good for your own burning.

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.

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!

Definitely the best way to sell it.

It burns fast and hot and doesn't make coals.

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.
 
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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.
 
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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!


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.
 
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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.

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.
 
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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.


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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.

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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"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...
 
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