Is Poplar the BEST choice of wood when Building a LOG CABIN?... Handmade House TV
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Tulip Poplar is an excellent species of wood to use when building a log home. It's abundant, local, straight, fast growing, often large in size, and these logs looks gorgeous! BUT... it does have it drawbacks. Watch this video to learn what they are and how best to address these issues. AND... once you have finished watching come on over to HandmadeHouses.com and join us in the Handmade House Guild where you can gain lifetime access to all of our premium courses. Yes, free videos on UA-cam are nice to watch, but if you are serious about building a dream cabin, you want to enroll in our premium video courses... yours to watch as many times as you would like... for life!
Spoken to a bunch of old folks. There are barns an cabins 200 years old made from tulip poplar that are still standing but you have to keep it off ground. Tulip poplar are not the same as regular poplar. One of if not the best insulating log but gotta be dry. If you have hemlock trees those are great for beams,etc. Slow growth hemlock is as hard as oak but can twist.
I have 34 acres of the biggest straightest Poplar logs in West Virginia.
I can't wait to build our 24' x 36' two-story log home one day (soon I hope)
Thanks Noah :)
I am glad I stumbled across this video. I need to build a shop and have been trying to figure out the best way to utilize the resources on our property as much as possible. I also like the rustic aesthetic, and our property is loaded with tall, super-straight tulip poplars. In fact, several of them are right in the very area where I want to put my shop, so now I am excited! You seem to know your stuff, so I just subscribed to your channel. Thanks!
If you saw yellow (Tulip) poplar for siding undercut the bottom of the board atleast a 22.5° or more of an angle. The long side being to the outside to shed rain water.
I found this on all the old barns in TN where I lived as a teenager.
Poplar is a fine choice here in the eastern woodlands for sure.
Great presentation Noah, thank you.
I just built a 12’x10’ log cabin out of young tulip poplars. Ive never built one before, and I didn’t know much about tulip poplars, other than they are abundant, and they grow tall and straight. So far so good, it is starting to crack a bit as it dries ,but its all still holding well. Located in Bedford, VA
Poplar is one of my favorite . Thank you.
Thank you. I really like the way you give the average person encouragement they need to get out there and do it. I hope you make more videos. Subscribed.
Love your wisdom, looking forward to building ours someday soon and joining your academy!
I bought the Handmade house guild and it’s TOTALY worth it. And any other classes he adds is bonus. I got timber frame for free! Best bang for my buck. He even teaches you how to get your contractors lic and permits! Plus blue prints which I am using! Thank you Mr. Bradley! Waiting with bated breath for timber fram demo and your special guests.
we build all kinds of stuff out of out populars. easy to mill and most have little reaction. from framing to trim.
I plan on building mine with eastern red cedars.
I have heard from an older log builder that running a kerf down the top and bottom of the log can help control the checking on the face of the log. The way he explained it was to plunge cut a cricular saw far enough from the ends that it isnt visible and is hidden by the chink joint, and run it down the length until you reach the point of visibility on the other end. Do this on both sides and it will direct, but not prevent, the checks. I'm not sure as to if it is true because I've never ran a side by side test or anything but when you were talking about the cracks it reminded me of it.
Had a house on the farm put together with wood pegs had poplar siding still solid
Thank you Noah!
Nice wood
Its confusing to hear this wonderful tree called Poplar as its not a real poplar Its Liriodendron tulipifera, better known as American tulip tree. The other real poplar tree, White poplar/ Populus tremuloides is a lesser desired wood with even a higher rot potential. I use white poplar carefully it works great with hand tools. Its not american tulip though.
I my area we call what he's calling a poplar tree, a Tulip tree. We call a cottonwood tree a poplar tree. On the Barnwood builders show they are always talking about poplar and I kept thinking they were talking about a Cottonwood tree. We have plenty of huge Cottonwoods and not too many Tulip trees
😊Liriodendron tulipifera-known as the tulip tree, American tulip tree, tulipwood, tuliptree, tulip poplar, whitewood, fiddletree, lynn-tree, hickory-poplar, and yellow-poplar-is the North American representative of the two-species genus Liriodendron, and the tallest eastern hardwood. Magnolia Family source : Wikipedia
You’re awesome.
Funny, I LOVE working hickory but I would NEVER choose to hew hickory
I have a lot of aspen in my area in Interior Alaska. Ive thought about building a hand hewn home. Wondered how it would last
Timothy from Canada here. Would you use Canadian poplar for timber framing?
Hey Noah! I have been trying to get onto your website for about a week but I keep getting it is under maintenance. I have tried on Microsoft Edge, Firefox and Safari. What am I doing wrong? Help.
Do you need to let fresh cut logs dry out for a period of time before setting into place for building?
Is aspen tree close to the same as a tulip poplar? I have many on my new property, straight and tall.
Norwegian Spruce as an option?
Whats cinking ?
Can I use blue gum trees
Been thinking about making a small cabin from all the eastern hemlock that's going to die on my land because of that damn woolly algid that's everywhere but don't know if it's ever been used or if it's possible?
Treat mountain hemlock as a hardwood
@@nicktozie6685 do I need to varnish it or leave it natural like Noah talks about? I've got so many huge hemlocks on my land, I've been treating the biggest ones but it's becoming futile and is really heart breaking, they're my favorite evergreen trees by far. We lost our Ashe trees a decade ago and now this! Thanks for any info about using it as a log cabin, was it ever used traditionally? If so, does it hold up?
No wonder this wood is so poplar !
PopUlar
Great work