Chip it and use it as a substrate for oyster
mushrooms, Ken.
You'll probably make more money that way it would
seem!
--- "Baker, Rupert" <Rupert.Baker@xxxxxxx.gov.uk>
wrote: > We had the same problem a couple of years ago
- a
shorter but broader butt,
which seemed a real shame to waste.
On the continent, the smaller local mills use poplar
a lot - for furniture,
carcassing, and general indoor use, as well as for
eg pallet wood. I doubt
whether you'll find a UK mill that'd want it, but
it'd be worth a try. It
is used on the continent as a structural timber,
too, for beams etc, and
apparently becomes v. hard when fully seasoned and
in place for some years.
A contact for more information might be either the
Poplar Tree Company, or
the Poplar Forum - the latter contactable via Alice
Holt
Rupert Baker
-----Original Message-----
From: Treecheck@xxxx.com [SMTP:Treecheck@xxxx.com]
Sent: 18 September 2000 23:28
To: UK Tree Care
Subject: Re: Grey Poplar.
We have been asked to remove a massive grey poplar
from a
constricted
waterside site. The tree has a straight clear stem
of 20m to a crown
which
has had major failure. The tree has a DBH of 1.3m.
and the butt is
sound. To
remove it from site will involve destroying the
integrity of the
tree as a
piece of timber. The client doe'nt want a nature
stump, play seats
for kids
in the park or any of the usual things we might try
to sell him.
Has anybody any ideas of uses for planked poplar
and if tannelising
will give
it any added value.
Our desperate search for a solution has reached as
far as 'hollow it
out,
turn it into a canoe and we can float it down the
river'
...but...foiled
again... the river is only two foot deep.
Ken
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