Poplar is used quite a bit to make moldings like crown molding because it mills well and also has a good surface to paint with not a lot of knots, checks or voids. It is usually not a wood to stain due to the many color variations it has. It also sands easy and has a smooth surface
Ditto. As a woodworker I love poplar because it is easy to work and it is stable. Plus the price. Usually I use it for "paint grade" projects, but some boards are fine for clear-coated furniture
I disagree about the staining. As a stainer and painter in a 20 year period I probably did 50 homes with stained poplar. As long as the color is dark and the stain is a heavy bodied wiping stain such as Zar it stains quite well. I did about 600 homes over a 20 year career and most of those 600 was both supplying and finishing the millwork package. I did not install.
We often used poplar in custom cabinet shops because it was light, strong, and fairly stable. It painted well, could be used for moldings, and for edging that would be laminated.
Emerald, the granary on my farm is sided with 175 to 150 yr old poplar siding. The barn is sided with 150 to 175 yr old poplar siding. Much of that has been replaced a couple of years ago. None of that was ever painted to our knowledge. Our house is sided with poplar siding and has held up reasonably well for over 30 years (it is stained). All of that poplar was cut here on the property. IF I WERE TO build a barn --- not happening-- I would use poplar.😀
Let me start by admitting i know little to nothing about turning hardwood trees into lumber..... Would a poplar, or any other hardwood, that was harvested 150-200 years ago be of sterner stuff than trees harvested now? Trees back then grew undisturbed for decades/centuries while today's trees haven't been around that long given how much logging has been done in Pennsylvania. Does that make sense?
Same here I have a barn from 1894 made from oak, cypress and poplar I used some of it to build my cabin. Old poplar looks brown and is beautiful I have a couple videos if you look for them, I also used gum inside and out, along with sassafras. Old growth is different from what we see today way stronger
My garage was built from all aspen (poplar) from walls to homemade trusses to siding. Great wood but must be kept dry. Ppl said I couldn't use it, it wouldn't last. One of he main uses for it is PLYWOOD, so why not building lumber???
At horticulture school we were taught that softwoods have cones and hardwoods have flowers, nothing to do with how hard the wood is. Love your channel.
Yes soft woods are generally classed as conifers or cone baring and have needles rather than leaves, notable exceptions being larches and dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostraboides) which lose their needles in winter. Hardwoods are generally broadleaved trees and apart from alder don’t have cones. Many hardwood species can retain their leaves in the winter such as laurels and holly, holm oak and the tropical hardwoods. Balsa is a tropical hardwood but has one of the softest, lightweight woods. Yew is considered a sorfwood, although it is incredibly tough. I had some lovely colourful poplar from my local golf club and have milled it with a chainsaw mill. It is also light weight and easy to carve spoons etc. with a nice finish. Poplar is quite fast grown in comparison to most hardwoods and was grown in the UK for the match industry until everyone started using cheap plastic lighters or gave up smoking. It was grown at wide spacing, quite often in agroforestry or silvopastoral systems prior to canopy closure, with the branches trimmed up the trunk to yield a clean and straight main stem. The wider spacing yields a broader girth in a shorter time period. Lime (Tilia spp.) is very popular with the carving fraternity for its even grain and ease of carving. It is classed as a hardwood as it is broadleaved and loses its leaves in winter. It is often referred to as bass wood.
The subject of poplar aside, the editing, soundtrack, the b-roll, the drone footage used in the intro; the production values of Lumber Capital Log Yard videos just keep getting better.
The "rainbow" poplar that she was describing and hoping for in the video is actually the southern Tulip or yellow poplar which is actually in the magnolia family (genus Liriodendron) and just called "poplar" because it looks similar and also has light/soft wood like the true northern poplars like aspen, cottonwood, etc, in the genus Populus. The tree she cut in the video was a true/northern poplar. Tulip poplars have bark that forms deeper and more interconnected ridges, the wood is much whiter, and then of course has the characteristic purple and green hues that she was referring to. Growing up in VA, I've cut LOTS of tulip poplar.
Yep! I have a lot of it on my property. When the trees come down, I split it into "early and late" season firewood. It burns hot and relatively fast, so I use it in the warmer winter days.
I’ve always liked working with poplar. I would never thought of the picture frame application. Gotta love the responsible harvesting and replenishing of wood. A talented friend of mine was brought in as an expert witness in a lawsuit against a chair manufacturer claiming that the wood wasn’t harvested at it’s full strength. I never would have thought that.
I'm pretty sure any tree that loses its leaves during the winter is a hard wood tree, typically known as deciduous trees. Soft wood trees keep their needles or leaves throughout the winter. Douglas fir is a softwood but is one of the stronger woods and is often used for construction purposes especially carrier beams and load bearing columns. Deciduous is the key word here.
Not really. Pine is a conifer and keeps its needles our bald cypress is a conifer and loses its needles. Both are soft wood. Our live oak tree is a very hard wood and does not lose its leaves. Here in Ms. poplar is very useful in moldings and siding. It's fast growing and more expensive than pine.
my father in law and his son made some nice small tables out of poplar years ago . They worked at a high end comercial furniture plant and could buy surplus wood at a steep discount , They still use the tables, 40+ years and still on good shape . The poplar has been very durable .
Southern Yellow Pine is a softwood because of it's growth rate (a wide growth ring) and loose woodgrain fiber, yet it has a Janka rating of 860. Hardness (Janka rating) and the growth rate neither independently define a hardwood or a softwood. The Red maple grows at 2' per year (fast), yet has a tight woodgrain, heavy wood fiber, and subsequently has a hardness of 920-950, and it is the woodgrain/fiber that defines it as a hardwood. Douglas fir is a medium growth tree (1.5' per year), has a loose woodgrain fiber, and has a Janka hardness of 650, but is still a softwood. The thickness of the grain, and the durability of the grain fiber between the growth rings determine whether it is a hardwood or a softwood. Softwood typically is less used for furniture because of the tearout of the wood fiber.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_fir Wood from this species is preferred for its structural strength as lumber, preferred for constructing wooden-framed buildings. My 1944-vintage small house in the B.C. portion of the Okanagan Valley has milled [planed] 2"x10" floor joists cross-braced on 16" centres that simply don't bounce, supported on rough-sawn 6"x6" beams & posts of the same wood. Great timber ! The British Navy used entire Douglas fir trees as replacement masts for warships when refitting at their naval base Esquimalt {southern tip of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada} even before Canada became a nation.
It was great to hear the hydraulics at work moving the log around on the LT40. Maybe include some more sounds like the Grapple or the Splitter...loving the content!
Do you think you have a lot in common with Laura Farms? Caz gear is a great decision. You are doing great as is. Just a thought to reach out since your channels are similar. If not, disregard my comment as I am just trying to help.
The definition of hardwoods and softwoods is not about the hardness or softness of their lumber: hardwoods come from deciduous trees, and softwoods come from coniferous trees. So, balsa wood is classified as a hardwood. But what then is a redwood tree? Redwoods (sequoias) are so old phylogenetically, that they predate the evolutionary differentiation between coniferous and deciduous! (They're usually referred to as softwoods when sold as lumber).
I live in France. There's a lot of Poplar (Peuplier) grown here. One large volume use of it, green, is for 3×3cm roof-tile battens. It's delivered tightly lashed in bundles of 25. Roofers only open the bundles as they're ready to use them as they can twist off in a big way in an hour or two. Overnight, forget it! Another use, seasoned, is in those parts of furniture which aren't seen, such as drawer liners and bottoms in preference to plywood. I have seen it in churches, too. Some people will say it's resistant to wood borers. It certainly isn't. There's an old English saying about the longevity of Poplar "Though heart of Oak be ere so stout, keep me dry and I'll see him out!". While we're talking about soft hardwoods (without messing about with Balsa or Bass), there are also Lime, Horse Chestnut and in USA especially, how about Catalpa? These are all nice, pleasant woods.
It's considered a hardwood because it come from a deciduous tree. A lot of older furniture was made from veneered poplar. All of those colors disappear pretty quickly to a dull, but it can look pretty amazing when first exposed! I used it a lot for painted cabinetry in my furniture company, and would mix and match it with soft maple.
@@TrapDoorWoodworks well none of our 660 species of eucalypts are deciduous and they're all hardwood, two possibly three of of 1000s of other non eucalypts species that are hardwood are deciduous, your definition is wrong, you may need to get a passport and broaden your dendology a bit. Hardwood is any tree isn't a conifer, those that aren't cone bearing.
@@billybobwombat2231 Hardwood and softwood designations came about in America to describe deciduous and coniferous trees. Although most people think of it as evergreen or non evergreen, it is actually based on cones or seeds. If it has cones it is coniferous, and if it has seeds it is deciduous. Eucalypts have seeds so that would make them deciduous. They would fall into the "deciduous evergreen" category.
They use Poplar to cleanse contaminanta from the soil as well. It draws a LOT of toxins out of the soil. That is why it is not a good wood to burn... as burning it would put the toxins back out into the atmosphere. I like poplar as flooring in my old farm house... looks great , a little softer, and quieter. Great channel Emerald
I'm a woodworker and poplar is a very lightweight and dimensionally stable wood. It is great for making rails & stiles for large doors that are going to have an outer veneer. Great stuff.
Nice video. Very informative, well-edited, and an excellent production. I should also mention that beautiful redheads are few and far between and you are one of the best I've ever seen! Thanks for sharing.
Emerald, you forgot to mention the wonderful by product of poplar, the bark. During certain times of the year when a green poplar tree is felled, the thick bark will easily peel off in one big piece. This bark is used to make bark siding and is extremely beautiful and durable. Also, many settlers like to use poplar trees for building cabins because they grow so big & straight and the wood is easy to work. While you mentioned that the poplar tree grows slower than pine, that may be true, but it actually grows pretty darn fast compared to other hardwoods like oak, maple, and walnut. I’ve seen a poplar grow 5-10 ft a year. Walnut, maple & oak, while they can grow very fast too, they tend to branch out more and not as straight.
You are quite right ! They grow like weeds where I live northern VA. I can't stand them ! But I do like the flowers on them , & so do the bees it makes for great honey , & the deer love them to ! & the seeds they drop during late fall are quite annoying , & stick to the souls of your shoes ! But when you cut the wood they do have some nice colors, & they make for some nice kindling.
Wow, very informative. I thought Poplar was considered a harder wood. Can't wait for a vid on the Janka scale. Another great vid Emerald and always good to see the other half of the dynamic duo, Jade.
Poplar actually grows rapidly for a 'hardwood', achieves a very large size if allowed to mature; the lumber, as noted is smooth surfaced, takes stain and paint well, is fairly stable dimensionally, and holds screws very well. When I still built cabinets, I used poplar for the carcass interior, including the drawer rails, and it worked like a charm.
It used to be a big one for the auto industry back in the day. Onaway Michigan is known for making steering wheels for cars in its early years one company used it for dash components. There was a buyer in Canada that paid good price for veneer.
@Wylie Wildt I grew up the road from the power plant in tower until 83 then moved to Cadillac area. I ended up moving onto the family farm by Cheboygan I get over there from time to time
I worked with a cabinet maker a few years back who built his painted cabinets almost entirely out of poplar because we could sand it to a glass finish and it took paint beautifully. It's strong and holds its shape.
Little safety issue comment. If you get close to heavy machinery .... tie your hair properly so it never gets caught in a mechanical device. My knowledge of some horrible stories make me just a little worried about anybody getting hurt. Very interesting work on wood and its ways to being used. Keep the good work going !!!!
Love your videos! I like poplar a lot as a hand tool woodworker for its general utility and ease of working with. I use it often for furniture internals such as sides and backs of drawers, internal framing and shelving. It's my go to wood for utility odds and ends such as storage boxes, bench hooks, and other paint grade projects.
My father has a cabinet shop in the 1960. My memories are, I love the smell of fresh cut Pine, Douglas Fir, Walnut & Maple, not so much oak and red wood
Poplar,especially tulip poplar is used for supplemental roof supports in coal minesnit is much lighter to carry 800 ft.,throw it under a moving conveyor belt.compafed to red oak.Also the bottoms of zId posts tlerage moisture better.
Great video. 🙏 Lots of comments that imply some of us just aren’t very smart. How’s this…Deciduous = “Hardwood”. Coniferous = “Softwood”…Deciduous trees are the ones with “leaves”, Conifers have cones & usually needles. As to “hardness”, conifers are USUALLY softer, which is why we like them for pounding nails. (But that’s not a rule. Balsa is deciduous, for example, while southern yellow pine is a conifer.) It’s pretty simple. ✌️🍷🎩🎩🎩
Thank you for educating me on softwood that are actually hardwoods I've always heard that the knots are tighter in poplar what's your opinion thank you for making day better
A customer recently had me disassemble a sideboard cabinet that was built by her great grandfather in the early 1900’s. There were beautiful poplar boards nearly 27 inches wide in the cabinet. I used the boards to build her a new hallway cabinet. She was thrilled to have a new piece from this old, tired, family cabinet. I was amazed at the width and stability of the old poplar boards. Keep up the good work!
I started using poplar maybe over 30 years ago mostly as a wood to be painted. It's was always very straight and kept it shape well. I still use popular today but I'm finding it's maybe not the quality that it used to be.
They make the Custom Merchandise (Merch) that channels like Lumber Capital Log Yard sell with their logos on it... It's really pretty high quality stuff actually... But somehow I think you already know that... and just suggesting a subheader for those that don't... Just Say'n in case you didn't.
@@kevind1555 Exactly, it goes by pretty fast and I suspect it gets missed by a lot of folks, it wasn't until I saw it as a sponsor on another channel that I then looked it up...also I didn't see it listed under "Show More" which would help it get more hits.
customer: Do you have a copy of Poplar Science magazine. Newsstand: That ain’t Poplar Science. It’s ‘Popular’! Customer: Then you ought to have a copy.
Poplar wood is used a lot in inexpensive drum sets And other Beginner musical instruments. it's good wood and it keeps the cost down. Your a smart lady.
Emerald, an absolutely superb video! Great information and presence on your part. Your personality came racing through with your comment about “those who have made it.” Funny, informative, enjoyable and well prepared! You receive an A+!
Oh farmers used to build hog trough out of poplar because of the rot resistant in long lasting and wet conditions. Here in Alabama 1800 homesteaders use Poplar logs to build your log cabins wheels and boil the bark down and used to keep away the beetles to keep them from eating the wood up
Poplar is ever growing in demand for finishing moldings and even replacing pine and cedar for ceiling planking. If you have ever seen a vaulted ceiling finished off in poplar T&G, you would be in awe. The colours and the grains with almost no knots are what makes it look beautiful. One must remember that there are different species of poplar, and the poplar on my property is like a weed growing at a rapid rate each year. When cut in planks, it is plain looking without the colourful grain. That said, poplar is making its way into lumber stores, as oak, maple, and other hardwoods are becoming more expensive.
Poplar is used as a secondary wood in furniture making quite often. Secondary woods are pieces that are not seen such as bracing underneath a sofa or drawer stops or corner braces in a chest of drawers. It does not stain well at all as it can be very blotchy. It accepts paint very well and it is used for painted moldings often but not base moldings or door frames as it dents very easily.
We used poplar in our shop for all paint-grade kitchen cabinet frames. Generally our frames were 5/4” thick with 5/4” inlay doors. They were quite expensive as we also used Cherry, maple and mahogany. The poplar was quite easy to sand and spray. It performed very well.
I love working with Poplar. It feels good and smells good, just like, well, lots of good things in life. You too can be one of those rich people in life if you'd make a short movie. I won't stop until you're on the silver screen where you belong. Trust me, you belong there, along with Jade and Sami. Amazing the way you ladies caress the various parts of your scenes with your camera! You don't know how good you are.
I was a cabinetmaker for 35 years and we tended to use Poplar when we built a painted project. With its tight grain, it paints up nicely and we frequently used it in conjunction with MDF, which while weak, has a highly desirable surface for painting. I stayed away from Poplar when a project was to be stained.
That bark slab wood would make some excellent birdhouses. Tulip poplar grows fast, they're usually the largest trees in a 'young' (< 100 yrs) mature forest...but the soft wood makes them prone to strong winds; they live fast and often die hard.
Thank you for the video. I live in Nova Scotia where hurricane Fiona blew down lots of poplar trees. Understanding what poplar wood is used for, I now see them as having more value than firewood. Amateur wood worker.
I made my son a 5 legged small table. I did my saw adjustments and trial fit up in poplar before I did it again in fancy walnut. That sacrificial poplar was $20 well spent.
Poplar is used quite a bit to make moldings like crown molding because it mills well and also has a good surface to paint with not a lot of knots, checks or voids. It is usually not a wood to stain due to the many color variations it has. It also sands easy and has a smooth surface
Ditto. As a woodworker I love poplar because it is easy to work and it is stable. Plus the price. Usually I use it for "paint grade" projects, but some boards are fine for clear-coated furniture
It takes walnut stain well.
I disagree about the staining. As a stainer and painter in a 20 year period I probably did 50 homes with stained poplar. As long as the color is dark and the stain is a heavy bodied wiping stain such as Zar it stains quite well. I did about 600 homes over a 20 year career and most of those 600 was both supplying and finishing the millwork package. I did not install.
I used it to build an entire new fireplace mantle.
Painted it afterwards, and you couldn’t tell it from solid oak.
We often used poplar in custom cabinet shops because it was light, strong, and fairly stable. It painted well, could be used for moldings, and for edging that would be laminated.
This could be your most poplar episode. 🥸
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Emerald, the granary on my farm is sided with 175 to 150 yr old poplar siding. The barn is sided with 150 to 175 yr old poplar siding. Much of that has been replaced a couple of years ago. None of that was ever painted to our knowledge. Our house is sided with poplar siding and has held up reasonably well for over 30 years (it is stained). All of that poplar was cut here on the property. IF I WERE TO build a barn --- not happening-- I would use poplar.😀
Let me start by admitting i know little to nothing about turning hardwood trees into lumber..... Would a poplar, or any other hardwood, that was harvested 150-200 years ago be of sterner stuff than trees harvested now? Trees back then grew undisturbed for decades/centuries while today's trees haven't been around that long given how much logging has been done in Pennsylvania. Does that make sense?
Same here I have a barn from 1894 made from oak, cypress and poplar I used some of it to build my cabin. Old poplar looks brown and is beautiful I have a couple videos if you look for them, I also used gum inside and out, along with sassafras. Old growth is different from what we see today way stronger
Would be nice to see some pictures of that
@@ronin2963 Here’s a short video my phone has a crappy camera ua-cam.com/video/O0oPBo9ADrs/v-deo.html
My garage was built from all aspen (poplar) from walls to homemade trusses to siding. Great wood but must be kept dry. Ppl said I couldn't use it, it wouldn't last. One of he main uses for it is PLYWOOD, so why not building lumber???
Great information Emerald and excellent camera work! Keep the great info coming we enjoy it! Have wonderful evening! TTFN
At horticulture school we were taught that softwoods have cones and hardwoods have flowers, nothing to do with how hard the wood is. Love your channel.
I was always taught that hard would lost their leaves in the winter and soft woods didn't.
Yes soft woods are generally classed as conifers or cone baring and have needles rather than leaves, notable exceptions being larches and dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostraboides) which lose their needles in winter. Hardwoods are generally broadleaved trees and apart from alder don’t have cones. Many hardwood species can retain their leaves in the winter such as laurels and holly, holm oak and the tropical hardwoods. Balsa is a tropical hardwood but has one of the softest, lightweight woods. Yew is considered a sorfwood, although it is incredibly tough.
I had some lovely colourful poplar from my local golf club and have milled it with a chainsaw mill. It is also light weight and easy to carve spoons etc. with a nice finish. Poplar is quite fast grown in comparison to most hardwoods and was grown in the UK for the match industry until everyone started using cheap plastic lighters or gave up smoking. It was grown at wide spacing, quite often in agroforestry or silvopastoral systems prior to canopy closure, with the branches trimmed up the trunk to yield a clean and straight main stem. The wider spacing yields a broader girth in a shorter time period. Lime (Tilia spp.) is very popular with the carving fraternity for its even grain and ease of carving. It is classed as a hardwood as it is broadleaved and loses its leaves in winter. It is often referred to as bass wood.
FFA taught me that in 1975
Any leaf tree is a hardwood
Its a hardwood.
Thank you for the education
The subject of poplar aside, the editing, soundtrack, the b-roll, the drone footage used in the intro; the production values of Lumber Capital Log Yard videos just keep getting better.
The "rainbow" poplar that she was describing and hoping for in the video is actually the southern Tulip or yellow poplar which is actually in the magnolia family (genus Liriodendron) and just called "poplar" because it looks similar and also has light/soft wood like the true northern poplars like aspen, cottonwood, etc, in the genus Populus. The tree she cut in the video was a true/northern poplar. Tulip poplars have bark that forms deeper and more interconnected ridges, the wood is much whiter, and then of course has the characteristic purple and green hues that she was referring to. Growing up in VA, I've cut LOTS of tulip poplar.
Yep! I have a lot of it on my property. When the trees come down, I split it into "early and late" season firewood. It burns hot and relatively fast, so I use it in the warmer winter days.
I’ve always liked working with poplar. I would never thought of the picture frame application. Gotta love the responsible harvesting and replenishing of wood. A talented friend of mine was brought in as an expert witness in a lawsuit against a chair manufacturer claiming that the wood wasn’t harvested at it’s full strength.
I never would have thought that.
Beautiful.
Poplar is one of the woods we used in our civil engineering mechanics of materials lab.
Love seeing more women taking the front and center in this field. More of this!
I'm pretty sure any tree that loses its leaves during the winter is a hard wood tree, typically known as deciduous trees. Soft wood trees keep their needles or leaves throughout the winter. Douglas fir is a softwood but is one of the stronger woods and is often used for construction purposes especially carrier beams and load bearing columns. Deciduous is the key word here.
John Vallandigham you are correct
thats my understanding too
Not really. Pine is a conifer and keeps its needles our bald cypress is a conifer and loses its needles. Both are soft wood. Our live oak tree is a very hard wood and does not lose its leaves. Here in Ms. poplar is very useful in moldings and siding. It's fast growing and more expensive than pine.
On hardwoods losing their leaves basswood is very soft and loses its leaves.
@@kensebring3683 basswood is a hardwood
my father in law and his son made some nice small tables out of poplar years ago . They worked at a high end comercial furniture plant and could buy surplus wood at a steep discount , They still use the tables, 40+ years and still on good shape . The poplar has been very durable .
Southern Yellow Pine is a softwood because of it's growth rate (a wide growth ring) and loose woodgrain fiber, yet it has a Janka rating of 860. Hardness (Janka rating) and the growth rate neither independently define a hardwood or a softwood. The Red maple grows at 2' per year (fast), yet has a tight woodgrain, heavy wood fiber, and subsequently has a hardness of 920-950, and it is the woodgrain/fiber that defines it as a hardwood. Douglas fir is a medium growth tree (1.5' per year), has a loose woodgrain fiber, and has a Janka hardness of 650, but is still a softwood. The thickness of the grain, and the durability of the grain fiber between the growth rings determine whether it is a hardwood or a softwood. Softwood typically is less used for furniture because of the tearout of the wood fiber.
These are some great facts and figures, but hardwood vs softwood is based on whether its deciduous or coniferous.
trees are classified as hardwood or softwood based on the type of seeds they produce.
@@Thundermuffin93 👍
@@Thundermuffin93 ...and nothing else. It's biological and not a grade...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_fir Wood from this species is preferred for its structural strength as lumber, preferred for constructing wooden-framed buildings. My 1944-vintage small house in the B.C. portion of the Okanagan Valley has milled [planed] 2"x10" floor joists cross-braced on 16" centres that simply don't bounce, supported on rough-sawn 6"x6" beams & posts of the same wood. Great timber !
The British Navy used entire Douglas fir trees as replacement masts for warships when refitting at their naval base Esquimalt {southern tip of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada} even before Canada became a nation.
Love sawing poplar. Makes great moulding, takes paint well.
It was great to hear the hydraulics at work moving the log around on the LT40. Maybe include some more sounds like the Grapple or the Splitter...loving the content!
Do you think you have a lot in common with Laura Farms? Caz gear is a great decision. You are doing great as is. Just a thought to reach out since your channels are similar. If not, disregard my comment as I am just trying to help.
You have a great sense of humor.
Nearly 100K subscribers. This channel is becoming very poplar.
Keep up the good work!
Yeah, I see what you did there ... ha ha!😀
That's a good pun. How hard wood it be to come up with another?
I love working with Poplar love the grain it has
The definition of hardwoods and softwoods is not about the hardness or softness of their lumber: hardwoods come from deciduous trees, and softwoods come from coniferous trees. So, balsa wood is classified as a hardwood. But what then is a redwood tree? Redwoods (sequoias) are so old phylogenetically, that they predate the evolutionary differentiation between coniferous and deciduous! (They're usually referred to as softwoods when sold as lumber).
Oh mercy, I love your facial expressions when explaining popular and building furniture. Love your video's and you ladies seem to be authentic.
now you got me wondering how it would be for a simple table. Sweet Channel.
I live in France. There's a lot of Poplar (Peuplier) grown here. One large volume use of it, green, is for 3×3cm roof-tile battens. It's delivered tightly lashed in bundles of 25. Roofers only open the bundles as they're ready to use them as they can twist off in a big way in an hour or two. Overnight, forget it! Another use, seasoned, is in those parts of furniture which aren't seen, such as drawer liners and bottoms in preference to plywood. I have seen it in churches, too. Some people will say it's resistant to wood borers. It certainly isn't. There's an old English saying about the longevity of Poplar "Though heart of Oak be ere so stout, keep me dry and I'll see him out!". While we're talking about soft hardwoods (without messing about with Balsa or Bass), there are also Lime, Horse Chestnut and in USA especially, how about Catalpa? These are all nice, pleasant woods.
I wish the deep south had a fall season. It's all heat and humidity, 2 weeks of the trees dying, then it is winter.
Great video Emerald
It's considered a hardwood because it come from a deciduous tree. A lot of older furniture was made from veneered poplar. All of those colors disappear pretty quickly to a dull, but it can look pretty amazing when first exposed! I used it a lot for painted cabinetry in my furniture company, and would mix and match it with soft maple.
That's the criteria.
Hardwood classification is broad leaf, not deciduous, all those that aren't conifers
@@billybobwombat2231 That's incorrect. The classification is deciduous, of which most are broad leaved.
@@TrapDoorWoodworks well none of our 660 species of eucalypts are deciduous and they're all hardwood, two possibly three of of 1000s of other non eucalypts species that are hardwood are deciduous, your definition is wrong, you may need to get a passport and broaden your dendology a bit. Hardwood is any tree isn't a conifer, those that aren't cone bearing.
@@billybobwombat2231 Hardwood and softwood designations came about in America to describe deciduous and coniferous trees. Although most people think of it as evergreen or non evergreen, it is actually based on cones or seeds. If it has cones it is coniferous, and if it has seeds it is deciduous. Eucalypts have seeds so that would make them deciduous. They would fall into the "deciduous evergreen" category.
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Hello ladies
I feel like you’re talking about me.😂. Love your channel!👍
They use Poplar to cleanse contaminanta from the soil as well.
It draws a LOT of toxins out of the soil. That is why it is not a good wood to burn... as burning it would put the toxins back out into the atmosphere. I like poplar as flooring in my old farm house... looks great , a little softer, and quieter. Great channel Emerald
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I'm a woodworker and poplar is a very lightweight and dimensionally stable wood. It is great for making rails & stiles for large doors that are going to have an outer veneer. Great stuff.
Nice video. Very informative, well-edited, and an excellent production. I should also mention that beautiful redheads are few and far between and you are one of the best I've ever seen! Thanks for sharing.
It is indeed good for carving and one of my electric guitars has a poplar body, and it plays real nice.
In Canada poplar is used for waferboard. Used in house construction and is less expensive then plywood
Emerald, you forgot to mention the wonderful by product of poplar, the bark. During certain times of the year when a green poplar tree is felled, the thick bark will easily peel off in one big piece. This bark is used to make bark siding and is extremely beautiful and durable. Also, many settlers like to use poplar trees for building cabins because they grow so big & straight and the wood is easy to work. While you mentioned that the poplar tree grows slower than pine, that may be true, but it actually grows pretty darn fast compared to other hardwoods like oak, maple, and walnut. I’ve seen a poplar grow 5-10 ft a year. Walnut, maple & oak, while they can grow very fast too, they tend to branch out more and not as straight.
You are quite right ! They grow like weeds where I live northern VA. I can't stand them ! But I do like the flowers on them , & so do the bees it makes for great honey , & the deer love them to ! & the seeds they drop during late fall are quite annoying , & stick to the souls of your shoes ! But when you cut the wood they do have some nice colors, & they make for some nice kindling.
When I use to climb Poplar for removing next to homes I could break off branches on the way up they were so light
. Thanks Emerald.....
Wow, very informative. I thought Poplar was considered a harder wood. Can't wait for a vid on the Janka scale. Another great vid Emerald and always good to see the other half of the dynamic duo, Jade.
It is classified as a hardwood because it is deciduous. It looses its leaves in the fall. Has nothing to do with density or grain. She is wrong.
It’s considered junk here in NZ.
On par with willow..
@@addrock7695 willow makes the best gunpowder....
Very popular in pulp and paper applications. It grows very fast.
Poplar actually grows rapidly for a 'hardwood', achieves a very large size if allowed to mature; the lumber, as noted is smooth surfaced, takes stain and paint well, is fairly stable dimensionally, and holds screws very well. When I still built cabinets, I used poplar for the carcass interior, including the drawer rails, and it worked like a charm.
It is classified as a hardwood because it is deciduous. It looses its leaves in the fall. Has nothing to do with density or grain. She is wrong.
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Emerald, dont be sour with the folks that have money. You have a lot more going for you. Nice video on the poplar.
It used to be a big one for the auto industry back in the day. Onaway Michigan is known for making steering wheels for cars in its early years one company used it for dash components. There was a buyer in Canada that paid good price for veneer.
As a child I vacationed at black lake. This was in the 60s.
@Wylie Wildt I grew up the road from the power plant in tower until 83 then moved to Cadillac area. I ended up moving onto the family farm by Cheboygan I get over there from time to time
I worked with a cabinet maker a few years back who built his painted cabinets almost entirely out of poplar because we could sand it to a glass finish and it took paint beautifully. It's strong and holds its shape.
Little safety issue comment. If you get close to heavy machinery .... tie your hair properly so it never gets caught in a mechanical device. My knowledge of some horrible stories make me just a little worried about anybody getting hurt. Very interesting work on wood and its ways to being used. Keep the good work going !!!!
Hate to say your right and see less of that beautiful hair… but your right.
I was a molder operator for 36 years and used popular for lots of molding cases and crowns and bases
Love your videos! I like poplar a lot as a hand tool woodworker for its general utility and ease of working with. I use it often for furniture internals such as sides and backs of drawers, internal framing and shelving. It's my go to wood for utility odds and ends such as storage boxes, bench hooks, and other paint grade projects.
My father has a cabinet shop in the 1960. My memories are, I love the smell of fresh cut Pine, Douglas Fir, Walnut & Maple, not so much oak and red wood
As I understood it poplar is very stable. It doesn’t expand and contract with moisture as much as pine
Poplar,especially tulip poplar is used for supplemental roof supports in coal minesnit is much lighter to carry 800 ft.,throw it under a moving conveyor belt.compafed to red oak.Also the bottoms of zId posts tlerage moisture better.
Great video. 🙏 Lots of comments that imply some of us just aren’t very smart. How’s this…Deciduous = “Hardwood”. Coniferous = “Softwood”…Deciduous trees are the ones with “leaves”, Conifers have cones & usually needles. As to “hardness”, conifers are USUALLY softer, which is why we like them for pounding nails. (But that’s not a rule. Balsa is deciduous, for example, while southern yellow pine is a conifer.) It’s pretty simple. ✌️🍷🎩🎩🎩
I love poplar. It's stable and cuts cleanly. I use it mainly for kitchen drawers and bookcases.
Thank you for educating me on softwood that are actually hardwoods I've always heard that the knots are tighter in poplar what's your opinion thank you for making day better
A customer recently had me disassemble a sideboard cabinet that was built by her great grandfather in the early 1900’s. There were beautiful poplar boards nearly 27 inches wide in the cabinet. I used the boards to build her a new hallway cabinet. She was thrilled to have a new piece from this old, tired, family cabinet. I was amazed at the width and stability of the old poplar boards. Keep up the good work!
I started using poplar maybe over 30 years ago mostly as a wood to be painted. It's was always very straight and kept it shape well. I still use popular today but I'm finding it's maybe not the quality that it used to be.
Tulip Poplar is a great wood.
Love working with poplar
Great video 👍💕
May I suggest putting a sub head under Caz Gear telling what they do?
They make the Custom Merchandise (Merch) that channels like Lumber Capital Log Yard sell with their logos on it... It's really pretty high quality stuff actually...
But somehow I think you already know that... and just suggesting a subheader for those that don't... Just Say'n in case you didn't.
@@kevind1555 Exactly, it goes by pretty fast and I suspect it gets missed by a lot of folks, it wasn't until I saw it as a sponsor on another channel that I then looked it up...also I didn't see it listed under "Show More" which would help it get more hits.
It makes beautiful siding
She is drop dead gorgeous isn’t she. Wow lady.
Great info, thanks. A soft Hardwood. Who knew?
customer: Do you have a copy of Poplar Science magazine.
Newsstand: That ain’t Poplar Science. It’s ‘Popular’!
Customer: Then you ought to have a copy.
Poplar wood is used a lot in inexpensive drum sets
And other Beginner musical instruments. it's good wood and it keeps the cost down. Your a smart lady.
I never knew, how good you looked in those jeans till now.
Nice day to enjoy ,
thanks for sharing craig
yea interesting
Seasoned woodturner here, and I enjoy using poplar for coffee scoops. It is durable enough to last for years.
Emerald, an absolutely superb video! Great information and presence on your part. Your personality came racing through with your comment about “those who have made it.” Funny, informative, enjoyable and well prepared! You receive an A+!
That look on Emerald's face at 4:42 was absolute GOLD!!! LOL!!!!!!! 😂😂😃
It is a soft straight grained wood that can be used almost interchangeably with pine. I like it because it's very forgiving.
Thank you young lady. Keep up the good work.
Oh farmers used to build hog trough out of poplar because of the rot resistant in long lasting and wet conditions. Here in Alabama 1800 homesteaders use Poplar logs to build your log cabins wheels and boil the bark down and used to keep away the beetles to keep them from eating the wood up
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Poplar is ever growing in demand for finishing moldings and even replacing pine and cedar for ceiling planking. If you have ever seen a vaulted ceiling finished off in poplar T&G, you would be in awe. The colours and the grains with almost no knots are what makes it look beautiful.
One must remember that there are different species of poplar, and the poplar on my property is like a weed growing at a rapid rate each year. When cut in planks, it is plain looking without the colourful grain.
That said, poplar is making its way into lumber stores, as oak, maple, and other hardwoods are becoming more expensive.
Have learned more about wood on your channel than I have in a lifetime. Thanks for sharing your time and knowledge. Have a great day
We have 2 Tobacco barns built with poplar we milled in 1972 and they are still standing.
Poplar is used as a secondary wood in furniture making quite often. Secondary woods are pieces that are not seen such as bracing underneath a sofa or drawer stops or corner braces in a chest of drawers. It does not stain well at all as it can be very blotchy. It accepts paint very well and it is used for painted moldings often but not base moldings or door frames as it dents very easily.
We used poplar in our shop for all paint-grade kitchen cabinet frames.
Generally our frames were 5/4” thick with 5/4” inlay doors. They were quite expensive as we also used Cherry, maple and mahogany.
The poplar was quite easy to sand and spray. It performed very well.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge
I love working with Poplar. It feels good and smells good, just like, well, lots of good things in life. You too can be one of those rich people in life if you'd make a short movie. I won't stop until you're on the silver screen where you belong. Trust me, you belong there, along with Jade and Sami. Amazing the way you ladies caress the various parts of your scenes with your camera! You don't know how good you are.
I re-trimmed all the woodwork in my house in Poplar. Got rid of all that nasty pine and plastic. Looks great! 4:35 to 4:45 is pretty funny!
So we've come to this, a selfie/instagram video with lumber in the background.
Speaking of Poplar, when are you guys giving us a blooper compilation video?
You folks ROCK ! thx for this 👍
I enjoy working with poplar on my small projects at home.
Thank you Emerald for the info on the Janka scale, didn't know it existed.
I built my timber frame front porch out of 8”x8” poplar beams It’s still looking great
Door and window trim. It’s great interior paneling , and is very paintable, good job guys
I was a cabinetmaker for 35 years and we tended to use Poplar when we built a painted project. With its tight grain, it paints up nicely and we frequently used it in conjunction with MDF, which while weak, has a highly desirable surface for painting. I stayed away from Poplar when a project was to be stained.
Popular is good for carving. Try cutting some willow.
Does anyone on here know what China Berry is?
That bark slab wood would make some excellent birdhouses.
Tulip poplar grows fast, they're usually the largest trees in a 'young' (< 100 yrs) mature forest...but the soft wood makes them prone to strong winds; they live fast and often die hard.
A tall redhead beauty wow sweetheart you are all a good man needs so you keep making boards by the foot and get rich lumber prices are good!
I’ve always wondered this, thanks for sharing! Reno
Love your sense of humor! Good, informative, video. Thanks.
Thank you for the video. I live in Nova Scotia where hurricane Fiona blew down lots of poplar trees. Understanding what poplar wood is used for, I now see them as having more value than firewood. Amateur wood worker.
I made my son a 5 legged small table. I did my saw adjustments and trial fit up in poplar before I did it again in fancy walnut. That sacrificial poplar was $20 well spent.
Great explanation of the hardness scale and love your take on 'rich people' 😁
@00:53 After all the years during my childhood watching Scooby Doo now I finally know jinckies is an actual word to describe wood hardness. 😮
Thank you Emerald, as usual, I know more for having stopped in.
Poplar has a beautiful, straight grain and works well on the lathe for turning. Thanks for sharing....👍🏾
Was a lumber inspector for 33 years, grew up in lumber and logging business. Exported a lot to China. 16/4 KD . Love mineral stained pop.
Fantastic for trim
In school we always used Yellow Poplar for our projects. Great video again, Thank You!!!!!!!
Love poplar! Thanks for the video!
Interesting. I work with poplar frequently and appreciate you informing/enlightening me about this available and cost-efficient wood. Thanks!