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. ✌️🍷🎩🎩🎩
Emerald, you may not be "rich" in money, but you are certainly blessed with a wealth of knowledge, and other aspects that matter so much more. Money does not make you.
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???
I'm a huge fan of poplar! It's also called "tulip wood" and is a member of the magnolia family. My local lumber mill turned me on to poplar about three years ago. I was making a dozen 24"x30" frame and panel doors for a project that was designed to be painted, rather than stain/varnish. I was going to use soft maple but when I got to the lumber yard and told the sawyer what I was doing, he suggested poplar. Besides being about 2/3 the price of the maple it is perfect paint grade lumber, not much more expensive than white pine. The grain is so straight and it machines beautifully. Very few knots as well. The doors and subsequent projects I've use it for turned out amazing. I imagine you could stain/varnish as well, but I haven't tried it. Usually I use cherry, walnut, maple, or oak for projects like that.
Tulip poplar is the local name for the tree. Whether or not it's a true "poplar" isn't relevant. Tulip poplar is common in the area Lumber Capitol logs, so that's likely what they are cutting in the video.
@@chash7335 Not true. M9 M4 was correct, I am local to this mill so I know the local lingo. If it is a "poplar" or not is relevant in this case because she is actually discussing the specifics of it. The uses of true poplar and tulip poplar are generally the same, but if you want to correct someone, you should at least know your facts.
This is definitely tulip poplar, and not true poplar - you can tell by the bark. True poplar has pretty smooth bark, superficially similar to that of a birch.
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.
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+!
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.
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 .
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.
Congrats on breaking 80,000 subs!!! I think I started watching your channel at about 1500 or so. You have grown your channel faster than any other channel I can think of. Keep up the good work. I learn so much from you and your family.
Emerald, you have a solid career ahead in social media promoting products and services beyond the family business. You've really grown over the past year as a presenter and the video editing is professional quality. Best wishes to you, Jade, and all of your family.
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.
Emerald I was thinking of retiring the employee of the week nomination cause I'm not sure if the winner's have been compensated, however you eye roll with the comment about those ridh people that somehow made it in life had me pn my panties. For this reason you're earned my nomination for Monday (as well as a very informative message). Thank You 💚
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 !!!!
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'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.
Great video. We used to use it for trim inside the houses we built. It was a littler harder to work with, but was more durable than pine for sure. We made built-ins with it as well.
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.
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.
You may want to explain what determines what makes a tree hardwood or softwood. A wood will be classified as a hardwood if the seeds that the tree produces have a coating. These coatings can either take the shape of a fruit or a shell. A wood will be classified as a softwood if the seeds don't have any type of coating and are instead dropped to the ground and left to the elements.
Rick, I believe the actual difference between the two is in the cellular makeup of the wood. Generally speaking a Hardwood is an angiosperm, or a flowering plant that loses its leaves and softwood is a gymnosperm that usually retain their needles. I think the seeds are a part of the differences, but not the defining factor.
You are each partially correct and partially wrong. However, I think the bigger point is that Emerald should refrain from using what she knows from working on a log yard or doing a little quickie Internet research and teaching technical aspects of trees and wood technology. I greatly admire Em and her efforts in these videos, but to use a popular term of the day she is spreading “disinformation” in a few instances.
Hardwoods are generally much harder than softwoods. You will never find a softwood as hard as oak or maple, and never find a hardwood as soft as white pine, but they overlap, willow is softer than hemlock, which can be very hard. It's just a general term. Hardwoods make sap, softwoods make tar, or they are dry, but they NEVER make sap. Hardwoods have leaves, softwoods have needles. Huge difference.
Poplar is a great wood and you can use it for a lot of things. I use it for custom door jambs, door stop, and crown mold. But it can also be used to make cabinet doors and drawer fronts, and also face frame for cabinets. Most of the time this Poplar gets painted, but it can actually be stained as well.
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).
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Really nice to hear someone talking about what they really know about. Remember the old chestnut (English comment about an old story) " I'm going to show you something that no one has every seen before, the inside of this log". Laughter.
Ok! I have 3 huge poplars that blew down on my vacation property and have been thinking about chainsaw milling them. I just subscribed this morning and up pops this!
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.
Poplar can also be stained using an antique oil finish, to replicate Cherry Lumber. It is great for making the interior of drawers and the inside framework of furniture.
ive been trying to build plaques as a begginer and i have poplar that ive made up into plaques didjnt know really how to stain the poplar it was scaring me since its exspensive for me anyways so thanks alot
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.
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.
Keep making information videos please! I thought I was the only rainbow poplar lover. Thanks for all the content! Your dad is a good example of a man. Humility is strength. Stay safe.
Wrong. Botanically... Balsa is classified as a Softwood Angiosperm. Hardwood vs Softwood is determined by the Janka Scale... NOT unrelated characteristics such as evergreen vs deciduous or cone vs flower.
Great show After working with wood for about 5o years all hard woods com from deciduous trees so you will know the difference. Even tho you may not believe me that balsa wood is considered a hard wood Love to see two young women working at the family business Keep up the hard work
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
FINALLY a channel with women that dont sell their content with halfnaked thumbnails and bikini pics! THANK YOU Lumber Capitol Yard its litterally sickening me!
Here in Middle Tennessee poplar has been the go to molding wood for years. Dried and surfaced 4 sides is between $3.00-$4.00 a board foot. Love your content.
There are two types of poplar. There is a northern poplar which may be what you are dealing with and in the south we have Tulip poplar. It was used by the Indians as dugout canoes. They machined it with fire (coals and scraping with stone tools) All the conifers are quite resinous. Poplar not so much. It is a fast growing wood. You can get a 24 inch diameter log in less than 20 years. It also is used tor wooden utensils that won't scratch the seasoning off of your nice cast iron skillets.
There are three types of true poplar: white poplar (populus alba), black poplar (populus nigra), and balsam poplar (populus balsamifera). Of these, only the latter grows natively in North America, in the Nothern US and Canada. It's unlikely she's talking about this type, since it is much softer, around 300lbf Janka. Even where it's native, I can't see any evidence that it's used commercially as lumber. All the poplar lumber I've seen in Canada is tulip wood.
In the past. Popular was used for indoor construction. It was used as rough sawn beams and supports. When properly dried it is incredibly strong and hard. If you're not using it in post and beam construction, such as in a barn, it's not good for much.
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
We used to run oak most of the week. Hands would be stained by the red oak. Last couple of hours of the day on Friday the sawyer would run poplar. It would take the stain off.
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.
Our local Poplar here in NW Ontario is used for a lot of everything. Especially the old homesteads had lots of farm uses. Buildings, beams, rough animal decking (stalls), Fence lines. Many old farms used fresh cut Poplar for new fence lines and would take root and grow into a new live tree. I've pulled down many old poplar buildings nailed together long ago. When the house or barn was constructed it was green wood. The wood dried around the nails so tightly often times we had to cut off the nail or destroy the wood around it. If you could keep it dry it would last very well.
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 is used in backs in many instruments. Because it is quite light when It dries it is more often used in larger instruments like cellos. Well actually I use Cottonwood which is a Canadian poplar that might be a little harder than yours. All poplars are quite similar though, smells funny, twists as it dries, hardens with age, wood rebounds under impact. It was used as truck decking for a long time because it could take a hit.
Where I am from in Canada, it is used on trailer decks where Caterpillars are transported. When run over by the tracks it does not break up like other woods and the divots springs back. Making the decks last longer by not having to replaced as often
Balsa is also a hardwood, which are defined as deciduous angiosperms (oak, cherry, hickory, walnut, mulberry, apple, chestnut, elm, ash), whereas conifers (pine, fir, hemlock, spruce, cedar, cypress) are considered softwoods. (Edit) Poplar is also used as a base wood for furniture, and veneered with walnut, cherry, or oak to make a more valuable piece of furniture. Basswood and beech are also used as secondary woods, generally where they won't be seen, such as drawer bottoms or sides.
We moved to our homestead in 2018 and have been cutting poplar on our mill ever since. It was used long ago in construction because it was what they had and when kept dry it is surprisingly durable. I took a gamble and used it for shelter and barn rafters and siding. It is holding up extremely well even without any preservative. It definitely deserves a chance in far more than trim and picture frames.
Poplar is sometimes used for electric guitar bodies. Watching those slabs roll off I was thinking "look at all those guitar body blanks!" I have a couple of poplars growing on my property that are four feet in diameter at eye level above the ground - not sure if they're white or yellow poplar - yellow, I suspect.
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.
Poplar wood can be used for about any thing, but can not be used where it must hold a nail. You must nail thru it into another kind of wood like oak or pine. Also if you try to use it in outdoor projects it will rot faster than any other wood i know, it is ok in vertical siding where the water can run right off. It makes good studs long as you use screws. Green poplar is bad about spitting if nailed up green. You can not trust it in a weight carrying like joist or rafter or beams carrying weight. Used to be most of it was used in basket factory. Dead wrong about it not growing fast. It grows faster than pine much faster. In less than 20 years it produces large saw logs. In 5 years it will be large shad tree. Or at least it does around here. I got several over 20 ft tall that are less than 4 years old. The logs bring more at basket factory than the lumber sells for. And it is used in cheap molding and other cheap things built out of wood.
Yes she is dead wrong about how fast it grows, i have cut many logs for basket factory, until it shut down. Right it will not hld a nail, and it rots fast. It will take paint but not stain. And it can never be trusted to hold weight. It grows fast and spreads like crazy. I cut one only 3 years ago, and now i got 4 more about 20 feet tall. This summer i will cut top off so it will spread out and not get any taller, makes good shade but blows down easy with high winds.
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.
Em, kudos ‘pon your sister, folks, and g-pa. For reference, Martin Scorsese, produced a film, we built for him and Leonardo DiCaprio, et al, for the film, “ Shutter Island”. Outta Boston, we used a closed-mental institution, and 10 locations. We received a load of about 300+ board feet a week for 3 1/2 months, in 16 ft lengths. All of our architectural moldings, were poplar as well. I organized the extra materials, and moldings for my mill shop union film industry. After the production, I was encouraged to take home, the usable leftovers, so they didn’t have to dumpsterize. I still have it all.
In Southern Maryland poplar is used siding on barns. It's put on vertical and left 12 to 18" off the ground to prevent rot. It stands up very good in these uses. I had barns 50 to 70 years old with original siding. We also used 6-8" boards 6' long for hanging tobacco in the barns.i was told it was used in framing of modern furniture (couches, sofas, recliners). Thanks for making these great videos. Take Care and be Careful.
My house was built in 1886 - a rural area. Back then, at least in my area, they would move a mill to the property and use the native wood there to build the house. All the studs, rafters and joists are white oak (some cherry). Floors were done with southern yellow pine - still look great. But poplar is everywhere - used for sheeting in the old days - much like how we use plywood today. While doing some remodeling I came across some poplar sheeting when I added a doorway - I would say this poplar is definitely harder than pine, closer to black walnut actually. Love your channel.
The world needs more women like you. 💪🤝
Why don't you be that kind of woman?
@@HaggisMuncher-69-420 Why do u assume she isn’t that kind of a woman.
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. ✌️🍷🎩🎩🎩
Love seeing more women taking the front and center in this field. More of this!
Emerald, you may not be "rich" in money, but you are certainly blessed with a wealth of knowledge, and other aspects that matter so much more. Money does not make you.
Great information Emerald and excellent camera work! Keep the great info coming we enjoy it! Have wonderful evening! TTFN
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.
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???
I'm a huge fan of poplar! It's also called "tulip wood" and is a member of the magnolia family. My local lumber mill turned me on to poplar about three years ago. I was making a dozen 24"x30" frame and panel doors for a project that was designed to be painted, rather than stain/varnish. I was going to use soft maple but when I got to the lumber yard and told the sawyer what I was doing, he suggested poplar. Besides being about 2/3 the price of the maple it is perfect paint grade lumber, not much more expensive than white pine. The grain is so straight and it machines beautifully. Very few knots as well. The doors and subsequent projects I've use it for turned out amazing. I imagine you could stain/varnish as well, but I haven't tried it. Usually I use cherry, walnut, maple, or oak for projects like that.
Tulip poplar is the local name for the tree. Whether or not it's a true "poplar" isn't relevant. Tulip poplar is common in the area Lumber Capitol logs, so that's likely what they are cutting in the video.
@@chash7335 Not true. M9 M4 was correct, I am local to this mill so I know the local lingo. If it is a "poplar" or not is relevant in this case because she is actually discussing the specifics of it. The uses of true poplar and tulip poplar are generally the same, but if you want to correct someone, you should at least know your facts.
@@David-fv7zg Nope. true poplar doesn't grow in the area. I did research before I posted. Try taking your own advice.
This is definitely tulip poplar, and not true poplar - you can tell by the bark. True poplar has pretty smooth bark, superficially similar to that of a birch.
yes i made a few doors with this wood...it takes paint very well
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
Its a hardwood.
Balsa is a hardwood
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!!!!!!! 😂😂😃
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.
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 .
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.
Thank you for the education
Congrats on breaking 80,000 subs!!! I think I started watching your channel at about 1500 or so. You have grown your channel faster than any other channel I can think of. Keep up the good work. I learn so much from you and your family.
Emerald, you have a solid career ahead in social media promoting products and services beyond the family business. You've really grown over the past year as a presenter and the video editing is professional quality. Best wishes to you, Jade, and all of your family.
FFA taught me that in 1975.
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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
Emerald I was thinking of retiring the employee of the week nomination cause I'm not sure if the winner's have been compensated, however you eye roll with the comment about those ridh people that somehow made it in life had me pn my panties. For this reason you're earned my nomination for Monday (as well as a very informative message). Thank You 💚
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.
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.
We use it for making trusses, which makes it very useful, indeed. Also in framing structures anywhere above the ground where it will stay dry.
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.
Oh mercy, I love your facial expressions when explaining popular and building furniture. Love your video's and you ladies seem to be authentic.
Great video. We used to use it for trim inside the houses we built. It was a littler harder to work with, but was more durable than pine for sure. We made built-ins with it as well.
Emerald,love the look and the phrase,made it in life, love it ....Cal in Calgary
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.
I worked in a mill for 37 years and we ran 100 of thousands lin.feet of popular into moldings, casing, baseboards,crown moldings , paneling, d4s etc.
Thanks!
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.
Poplar is one of the woods we used in our civil engineering mechanics of materials lab.
You may want to explain what determines what makes a tree hardwood or softwood.
A wood will be classified as a hardwood if the seeds that the tree produces have a coating. These coatings can either take the shape of a fruit or a shell. A wood will be classified as a softwood if the seeds don't have any type of coating and are instead dropped to the ground and left to the elements.
Rick, I believe the actual difference between the two is in the cellular makeup of the wood. Generally speaking a Hardwood is an angiosperm, or a flowering plant that loses its leaves and softwood is a gymnosperm that usually retain their needles. I think the seeds are a part of the differences, but not the defining factor.
You are each partially correct and partially wrong. However, I think the bigger point is that Emerald should refrain from using what she knows from working on a log yard or doing a little quickie Internet research and teaching technical aspects of trees and wood technology. I greatly admire Em and her efforts in these videos, but to use a popular term of the day she is spreading “disinformation” in a few instances.
The terms hardwood and softwood has zero to do with how hard or soft the wood is. It actually refers to how they reproduce.
Hardwood - sober, softwood - drunk
Hardwoods are generally much harder than softwoods. You will never find a softwood as hard as oak or maple, and never find a hardwood as soft as white pine, but they overlap, willow is softer than hemlock, which can be very hard. It's just a general term. Hardwoods make sap, softwoods make tar, or they are dry, but they NEVER make sap. Hardwoods have leaves, softwoods have needles. Huge difference.
Poplar is a great wood and you can use it for a lot of things. I use it for custom door jambs, door stop, and crown mold. But it can also be used to make cabinet doors and drawer fronts, and also face frame for cabinets. Most of the time this Poplar gets painted, but it can actually be stained as well.
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).
Bald cypress is a softwood and is deciduous
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.
Beautiful.
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
Hello how are you doing?
It is indeed good for carving and one of my electric guitars has a poplar body, and it plays real nice.
This could be your most poplar episode. 🥸
No You Didn't!
Yes they fid! 😂😂😂
Duuuuuuuuuuuude!!! That is sooo bad. I love it
Are you a Dad? That was definitely a Dad joke!!!
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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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
@@2ndborn186 yessir
Hardwood reference is to deciduous trees that shed their leaves in the fall season. Yes, slower growth and tighter growth rings.
At least some one knows the difference in soft wood and hard wood. But poplar grows faster than any pine tree.
Jade we herenin the Tarheel State sometimes refer to Popular as North Carolina Mahogany !!
Thanks for explaining the scale for determining where the wood falls in terms of hardness. Educational 👍.
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.
Really nice to hear someone talking about what they really know about. Remember the old chestnut (English comment about an old story) " I'm going to show you something that no one has every seen before, the inside of this log". Laughter.
Ok! I have 3 huge poplars that blew down on my vacation property and have been thinking about chainsaw milling them. I just subscribed this morning and up pops this!
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.
Congratulations Em on your channel becoming more poplar. Well someone had to start off with the poplar jokes. Anyway, thanks for the education.
Better keep your day job for a while. Thank you!
Great! Now we can have a Poplarity contest.
@@wayneweis653 she gave us some Poplar Mechanics of the wood
Never thought at my age and worked as a joiner/carpenter would appreciate being educated by a beautiful intelligent young lady👌👌👌
Poplar can also be stained using an antique oil finish, to replicate Cherry Lumber. It is great for making the interior of drawers and the inside framework of furniture.
Yeah, a lot of the store-bought furniture I have is poplar framed. Upholatered couches and chairs often use poplar.
ive been trying to build plaques as a begginer and i have poplar that ive made up into plaques didjnt know really how to stain the poplar it was scaring me since its exspensive for me anyways so thanks alot
So refreshing to see young, intelligent and articulate people sharing valuable knowledge 👌
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....
Love sawing poplar. Makes great moulding, takes paint well.
Huh. I knew poplar could have a greenish cast. Didn’t know about the others. Traditional drawer slides, etc.
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.
now you got me wondering how it would be for a simple table. Sweet Channel.
Keep making information videos please! I thought I was the only rainbow poplar lover. Thanks for all the content! Your dad is a good example of a man. Humility is strength. Stay safe.
4:40 lol. that somehow made it in life.. cool expression,,,lol they probably got it the old fashioned way,,,,, inherited it.. lol
Believe it or not, Balsa is technically a hardwood.
Bamboo is a hardwood.
@@flynnstone3580it’s a grass.
Wrong.
Botanically... Balsa is classified as a Softwood Angiosperm.
Hardwood vs Softwood is determined by the Janka Scale... NOT unrelated characteristics such as evergreen vs deciduous or cone vs flower.
I think bamboo is actually a type of grass.@@flynnstone3580
Great show
After working with wood for about 5o years all hard woods com from deciduous trees so you will know the difference.
Even tho you may not believe me that balsa wood is considered a hard wood
Love to see two young women working at the family business
Keep up the hard work
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
FINALLY a channel with women that dont sell their content with halfnaked thumbnails and bikini pics! THANK YOU Lumber Capitol Yard its litterally sickening me!
good job'
Here in Middle Tennessee poplar has been the go to molding wood for years. Dried and surfaced 4 sides is between $3.00-$4.00 a board foot. Love your content.
There are two types of poplar. There is a northern poplar which may be what you are dealing with and in the south we have Tulip poplar. It was used by the Indians as dugout canoes. They machined it with fire (coals and scraping with stone tools) All the conifers are quite resinous. Poplar not so much. It is a fast growing wood. You can get a 24 inch diameter log in less than 20 years. It also is used tor wooden utensils that won't scratch the seasoning off of your nice cast iron skillets.
There are three types of true poplar: white poplar (populus alba), black poplar (populus nigra), and balsam poplar (populus balsamifera). Of these, only the latter grows natively in North America, in the Nothern US and Canada. It's unlikely she's talking about this type, since it is much softer, around 300lbf Janka. Even where it's native, I can't see any evidence that it's used commercially as lumber. All the poplar lumber I've seen in Canada is tulip wood.
There is a bit of confusion in the nomenclature, as the common 'Poplar' lumber is from Tulip Poplar, which is not actually a Poplar. It is missnamed.
In the past. Popular was used for indoor construction. It was used as rough sawn beams and supports. When properly dried it is incredibly strong and hard. If you're not using it in post and beam construction, such as in a barn, it's not good for much.
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
We used to run oak most of the week. Hands would be stained by the red oak. Last couple of hours of the day on Friday the sawyer would run poplar. It would take the stain off.
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.
Our local Poplar here in NW Ontario is used for a lot of everything. Especially the old homesteads had lots of farm uses. Buildings, beams, rough animal decking (stalls), Fence lines. Many old farms used fresh cut Poplar for new fence lines and would take root and grow into a new live tree. I've pulled down many old poplar buildings nailed together long ago. When the house or barn was constructed it was green wood. The wood dried around the nails so tightly often times we had to cut off the nail or destroy the wood around it. If you could keep it dry it would last very well.
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 is used in backs in many instruments. Because it is quite light when It dries it is more often used in larger instruments like cellos. Well actually I use Cottonwood which is a Canadian poplar that might be a little harder than yours. All poplars are quite similar though, smells funny, twists as it dries, hardens with age, wood rebounds under impact. It was used as truck decking for a long time because it could take a hit.
Poplar makes good molding wood.
Great molding my friend
Good for nothing. Only for matches.
IDK if it's a hard wood or not but it's pretty poplar
So true.
1×3×16 is straight and clean.
Easy to work with a router, holds stain well and never warps.
Yes sir primed and painted
Very popular in pulp and paper applications. It grows very fast.
how do you keep the sap off your hands every day? when you are cutting the logs.
Where I am from in Canada, it is used on trailer decks where Caterpillars are transported. When run over by the tracks it does not break up like other woods and the divots springs back. Making the decks last longer by not having to replaced as often
One reason that so many people use this wood for projects, that you forgot to mention, is because it is just very poplar! 😂
Keep your delay job. Thank you!
@@wayneweis653 I posted that comment in the evening here in Ohio, so I have my day job AND my evening humor!
Balsa is also a hardwood, which are defined as deciduous angiosperms (oak, cherry, hickory, walnut, mulberry, apple, chestnut, elm, ash), whereas conifers (pine, fir, hemlock, spruce, cedar, cypress) are considered softwoods. (Edit) Poplar is also used as a base wood for furniture, and veneered with walnut, cherry, or oak to make a more valuable piece of furniture. Basswood and beech are also used as secondary woods, generally where they won't be seen, such as drawer bottoms or sides.
You have a great sense of humor.
We moved to our homestead in 2018 and have been cutting poplar on our mill ever since. It was used long ago in construction because it was what they had and when kept dry it is surprisingly durable. I took a gamble and used it for shelter and barn rafters and siding. It is holding up extremely well even without any preservative. It definitely deserves a chance in far more than trim and picture frames.
Hello ladies
Poplar is sometimes used for electric guitar bodies. Watching those slabs roll off I was thinking "look at all those guitar body blanks!" I have a couple of poplars growing on my property that are four feet in diameter at eye level above the ground - not sure if they're white or yellow poplar - yellow, I suspect.
It’s classed as a hardwood because it’s deciduous…
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
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.
So funny starting at 4:40
That was funny !!! LOL !!😀
Poplar wood can be used for about any thing, but can not be used where it must hold a nail. You must nail thru it into another kind of wood like oak or pine. Also if you try to use it in outdoor projects it will rot faster than any other wood i know, it is ok in vertical siding where the water can run right off. It makes good studs long as you use screws. Green poplar is bad about spitting if nailed up green. You can not trust it in a weight carrying like joist or rafter or beams carrying weight. Used to be most of it was used in basket factory. Dead wrong about it not growing fast. It grows faster than pine much faster. In less than 20 years it produces large saw logs. In 5 years it will be large shad tree. Or at least it does around here. I got several over 20 ft tall that are less than 4 years old. The logs bring more at basket factory than the lumber sells for. And it is used in cheap molding and other cheap things built out of wood.
Yes she is dead wrong about how fast it grows, i have cut many logs for basket factory, until it shut down. Right it will not hld a nail, and it rots fast. It will take paint but not stain. And it can never be trusted to hold weight. It grows fast and spreads like crazy. I cut one only 3 years ago, and now i got 4 more about 20 feet tall. This summer i will cut top off so it will spread out and not get any taller, makes good shade but blows down easy with high winds.
Tulip Poplar is a great wood.
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.
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.
Door and window trim. It’s great interior paneling , and is very paintable, good job guys
I never knew, how good you looked in those jeans till now.
Em, kudos ‘pon your sister, folks, and g-pa.
For reference, Martin Scorsese, produced a film, we built for him and Leonardo DiCaprio, et al, for the film,
“ Shutter Island”. Outta Boston, we used a closed-mental institution, and 10 locations.
We received a load of about 300+ board feet a week for 3 1/2 months, in 16 ft lengths.
All of our architectural moldings, were poplar as well.
I organized the extra materials, and moldings for my mill shop union film industry.
After the production, I was encouraged to take home, the usable leftovers, so they didn’t have to dumpsterize. I still have it all.
She is drop dead gorgeous isn’t she. Wow lady.
Calm down I bet your money she got a man. Not a boyfriend real women don't play with boys.
In Southern Maryland poplar is used siding on barns. It's put on vertical and left 12 to 18" off the ground to prevent rot. It stands up very good in these uses. I had barns 50 to 70 years old with original siding. We also used 6-8" boards 6' long for hanging tobacco in the barns.i was told it was used in framing of modern furniture (couches, sofas, recliners). Thanks for making these great videos. Take Care and be Careful.
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My house was built in 1886 - a rural area. Back then, at least in my area, they would move a mill to the property and use the native wood there to build the house. All the studs, rafters and joists are white oak (some cherry). Floors were done with southern yellow pine - still look great. But poplar is everywhere - used for sheeting in the old days - much like how we use plywood today. While doing some remodeling I came across some poplar sheeting when I added a doorway - I would say this poplar is definitely harder than pine, closer to black walnut actually. Love your channel.