Poplar wood

Anyone out there use popel for firing your evaporator ? I've got a few cords of it cut to length, I just have to slit it. Just wondering I know thwBTU's won't be as high as maple but I'n just wondering if it's worth splitting it??

Yes sir use it all the time. Quick hot fires just need more of it. The only thing I don't like about it is it stinks when it is still green and stacked inside.

Poplar is actually classed as a hard wood around here by some. It burns better then cedar thats for sure. Where I come from out west everybody burns it as there isn't to much else. Mom cooked with it untill we got a electric stove. Can't smell any worse then some pine that I have with that sour smell.

I'm in full agreement with 3rdgen.maple. Middle of the road as heat goes when dry and a lot better in the shed then having them compete with you young replacement sugar maples. I can't seem to get ahead of them. As a weed tree they must be genetically linked to witch grass. Skip mowing a field for one year and they are six feet high.

Same here, poplar is good evaporator wood. In a wood stove it is actually good to help keep your chimney clean. If it is dry it burns clean and hot.

That's all I burned this year. In my mind it's a garbage wood - I won't burn it inside - but it's good for the evaporator or outside campfires. Reminds me of pine because it snaps a lot. I still have six - eight cord of poplar that I haven't even split yet. I take 'em down whenever possible because they're so weak.

After 2 years of drying I have some that is starting to rot and some that is still wet. That stuff will not dry! Oh, and I agree, split more of it because you'll go through it faster than hardwood.

If it aint a standing sugar maple burn it to make syrup. It will burn hot and fast esp if split

I burn anything and everything here. The small stuff goes into the evaporator and the big stuff goes into the outdoor wood furnace. If it has or had leaves or needles it's fuel.

Heat produced by each type of wood
(Million BTU per cord)

Oak 29
Sugar maple 29
Beech 28
Yellow birch 26
Ash tree 25
Elm tree 25
Red maple 24
Larch 24
White birch 23
Poplar 18
White pine 17
Lime tree 17
Spruce 16
Fir 16

I don't think you'll find any poplar in Wisconsin. It's an eastern tree. What we call popple is Aspen (populus spp.) Like Ken says, poplar is a hardwood with very light and uniform color. Popple? Burn it if ya got it.