Price of poplar logs - The Forestry Forum The original poster was asking about Aspen (called Popple or Poplar in MN) The YP is very hot Pricing on good logs is great, you will want to know where they logs are going be cause the various mills desire different lengths Some mills want a 14' log others 16' and exporters always like 10' logs
poplar logs for a cabin - forestryforum. com Referring to aspen as "popple" seems to help avoid the confusion when talking to a larger audience Would help if yellow poplar was used in place of "poplar" But that won't happen
Balsam poplar Cottonwood as building material? - The Forestry Forum I think our popple is very similar to what is called aspen further west, and looks almost the same as cotton wood but rarely gets as big The popple we have here is also supposed to get so hard you can't drive a nail in it once it has seasoned I can't say if that is true or not, I usually mill it one day and am building with it the next
aspen for cabin logs - The Forestry Forum When I cut Popple (Aspen) pulp Peeled in the spring and Left the top on The leaves would come out and draw the sap out of the tree IAugust or September when it came out of the woods it was like handling feathers Lots better than handlling green hardwood Still a taters n gravy job Junkyard
Newbie in need of advice on air drying Eastern White Pine! The popple we stickered inside a shed that has some air movement We put weight on the top of the stack to keep it from warping while it dried It took a longer time for the popple to dry than the pine - 7 months vs 4 for the pine We made all 1" boards from the popple and it came out pretty nice
Using Aspen as framing lumber - The Forestry Forum Our house is built with big tooth aspen Cut the trees one day, sawed them into lumber the next and nailed them up the third with ring shank and ardox nails
Worst smelling wood and best smelling wood? - The Forestry Forum I'm not a sawyer per se, but I love the smell of cutting cherry and walnut I had about 1 25 mbf of dead red oak sawn and it really smelled bad, probably bacterial (sapwood was punky rotten); however, the heartwood was solid and yielded gorgeous, mellow lumber after drying
Cottonwood for trailer deck? vs Oak? - The Forestry Forum ill tell you what,, we put cottonwood on 2 trailer decks so far , one was an inch thick,, light duty , wouldnt do it again unless i put more screws in it to hold it down better, now the 1 5 inch is a ten ton and it has lasted 3 years so far and it looks awesome ,granted he doesnt haul a dozer or excavator but he does haul a 8,000 pd tractor and logs for me from time to time , it gets used alot
JD 440 dozer - The Forestry Forum With the right fulcrum and enough leverage, you can move the world! 2017 LT40 wide, BMS250 and BMT250,036 stihl, 2001 Dodge 3500 5 9 Cummins, l8000 Ford dump truck, hr16 Terex excavator, Valley je 2x24 edger, Gehl ctl65 skid steer, JD350c dozer