All About Poplar: What’s it good for??
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This could be your most poplar episode. 🥸
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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.
Hello ladies
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.
Believe it or not, Balsa is technically a hardwood.
Bamboo is a hardwood.
Love seeing more women taking the front and center in this field. More of this!
now there is a young lady that knows what she is talking about good job
Beautiful.
4:40 lol. that somehow made it in life.. cool expression,,,lol they probably got it the old fashioned way,,,,, inherited it.. lol
Great video Emerald
So funny starting at 4:40
That was funny !!! LOL !!😀
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’s classed as a hardwood because it’s deciduous…
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!
Thank you for the education
As I understood it poplar is very stable. It doesn’t expand and contract with moisture as much as pine
Popular is good for carving. Try cutting some willow.
Does anyone on here know what China Berry is?
thanks for sharing
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.
Great information Emerald and excellent camera work! Keep the great info coming we enjoy it! Have wonderful evening! TTFN
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
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Emerald,love the look and the phrase,made it in life, love it ....Cal in Calgary
Huh. I knew poplar could have a greenish cast. Didn’t know about the others. Traditional drawer slides, etc.
Tulip Poplar is a great wood.
Thank you Emerald, as usual, I know more for having stopped in.
Jade we herenin the Tarheel State sometimes refer to Popular as North Carolina Mahogany !!
You have a great sense of humor.
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
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.
Popular is considered a hardwood when used as trim but a softwood when used as firewood.
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 th-cam.com/video/O0oPBo9ADrs/w-d-xo.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???
now you got me wondering how it would be for a simple table. Sweet Channel.
‘Em how about talking a bit about the debarker, I mentioned I had a mill similar to yours without a debarker so they interest me.
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.
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
Any leaf tree is a hardwood
Its a hardwood.
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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.
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.
In Canada poplar is used for waferboard. Used in house construction and is less expensive then plywood
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.
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.
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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'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
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 wet wood. Lmao.
Great info, thanks. A soft Hardwood. Who knew?
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!!!!!!! 😂😂😃
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 .
Very popular in pulp and paper applications. It grows very fast.
I was a molder operator for 36 years and used popular for lots of molding cases and crowns and bases
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
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.
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@@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.
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. ✌️🍷🎩🎩🎩
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Poplar is one of the woods we used in our civil engineering mechanics of materials lab.
It is indeed good for carving and one of my electric guitars has a poplar body, and it plays real nice.
@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. 😮
EXCELLENT PRODUCTION . Best informational, in context, presentation i've seen. Great work.
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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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, dont be sour with the folks that have money. You have a lot more going for you. Nice video on the poplar.
Thank you young lady. Keep up the good work.
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 💚
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.
Gotta say, you are a masterpiece of art in red.
So we've come to this, a selfie/instagram video with lumber in the background.
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!
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
The things you said were very interesting about poplar. I have discovered that it works well for making wall hung key chain holders. I made one for my surgeon which had a base of poplar, a sail boat of mahogany , two hearts of redwood had her name on one and her husband's on the other. The sail was also poplar because it was so light in color that it appeared as white. Poplar is easy to saw, easy to sand. And holds together well as it did when I cut the small pieces on the key chain holder for my urologist. The base is poplar, the baseball is also from poplar, however, the miniature baseball bat is oak. The borders of the plaques have routed edges because poplar cuts so smoothly and resists splintering when cut y a router. My doctors really like their key chain holder plaques. This is probably more info than you would ever want. I immensely appreciate your videos. You have an interesting and entertaining family. Thank you for allowing us to peer into your lives.
Love sawing poplar. Makes great moulding, takes paint well.
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’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.
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.
You have to be the cutest sawer I have seen
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
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 love working with Poplar love the grain it has
It's used for electric guitars, mounding and furniture.
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.
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?
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.....
Love your sense of humor! Good, informative, video. Thanks.
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
She is drop dead gorgeous isn’t she. Wow lady.
Emerald, you're really stepping on up with the videography. As ususal I really enjoy these and the background :)
Never thought at my age and worked as a joiner/carpenter would appreciate being educated by a beautiful intelligent young lady👌👌👌
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.
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.
Excellent video. I look forward to your video every night I hope you will keep them coming.
Speaking of Poplar, when are you guys giving us a blooper compilation video?
how do you keep the sap off your hands every day? when you are cutting the logs.
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Fantastic for trim