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Do Mainers use this as firewood at all, here in Eastern Washington it get a pretty penny for a cord. $250 to $350 a cord.
I don't think anyone would pay for it here. It burns up pretty quick when it's dry, a little slower when it's green but still too fast. You'd be kept pretty busy chunking them in the stove if you were relying on it for heat. I'm burning one now but only because the wind knocked it down a couple of weeks ago, I throw a couple of pieces in and then put my hrdwood on top of it.
Tamarack and poplar, locally called popple, are very different woods. Poplar is light in weight and light in color. It burns well, does not snap, crackle or throw sparks and makes a slow fire with moderate heat. Tamarack is heavy wood. It was used as floors in stables and as decking in covered bridges. It is quite hard and warp resistant. It makes a good fire in a firplace. However, in a wood stove it burns very hot and gasses off quickly. If you try to choke off the air or dampen down the stove the gasses will create creosote in a chimney. I would mix it with other woods to prevent that.
Our fire department wants to reduce the number of chimney fires. We don't want to be on a steep snowy roof at 2 AM. We accomplish this by giving away material to put into your wood stove or fireplace twice a month. Just bring your own dry half gallon milk carton and you get enough of this stuff to last all winter. It's a whole lot cheaper and safer than fighting chimney fires.
Been there. Done that and had the singed eyebrows to prove it.
Poplar is light in weight and light in color. It burns well, does not snap, crackle or throw sparks and makes a slow fire with moderate heat.
I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with this completely. I've been burning poplar for several weeks now and it burns hot, fast, and spits and sparks worse than anything else I've burned.
So poplar must be the same as popple?? Here in Wis they are referred to as popple also. I think Aspen is also in the same family. I had a few popple blown down in storm in spring and am burning them now. I got a full cord out of them. It is a light wood, burns relatively fast. Mine doesn't seem to spit and spark though. I googled "popple" and it doesn't come up with anything.
Tamarack and poplar, locally called popple, are very different woods. Poplar is light in weight and light in color. It burns well, does not snap, crackle or throw sparks and makes a slow fire with moderate heat. Tamarack is heavy wood. It was used as floors in stables and as decking in covered bridges. It is quite hard and warp resistant. It makes a good fire in a firplace. However, in a wood stove it burns very hot and gasses off quickly. If you try to choke off the air or dampen down the stove the gasses will create creosote in a chimney. I would mix it with other woods to prevent that.
Good info NMLM I did not know that about the creosote, My wood this year is mostly Red Fir, With a little tamarack and lodgr pole pine, and a couple aspens that got in the way, not a lot hard wood out here, you can get it, I had about a cord of maple last year, but thats it. My maple tended to leave alot of ash but burned long and warm.
So poplar must be the same as popple?? Here in Wis they are referred to as popple also. I think Aspen is also in the same family. I had a few popple blown down in storm in spring and am burning them now. I got a full cord out of them. It is a light wood, burns relatively fast. Mine doesn't seem to spit and spark though. I googled "popple" and it doesn't come up with anything.
I looked it up a few weeks ago, it *is* one of the Aspens, Populus Grandidentata- Bigtooth Aspen.
So poplar must be the same as popple?? Here in Wis they are referred to as popple also. I think Aspen is also in the same family. I had a few popple blown down in storm in spring and am burning them now. I got a full cord out of them. It is a light wood, burns relatively fast. Mine doesn't seem to spit and spark though. I googled "popple" and it doesn't come up with anything.
Around here poplar is also known as one of the "widowmakers". the trees grow tall and spindly and have a tendency to develop rot high up the trunk where they split off. I was deer hunting in a small stand of poplars today and Iwas surrounded by large fallen limbs and trees snapped short. Creepy!
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