Hello everyone tonight:

You know the old saying "A place for everything and everything has its place:

Ken: a question please---
Originally Posted By: Ken Hume
Hi Richard,

You elude to poplar not being a very good firewood and this made me recall that the English company Bryant and May used poplar wood to make matches for fire and cigarette lighting. One of the reasons for choosing this wood apparently was that it did not flare up and burn quickly instead it burned in a more slow and controlled fashion hence maybe poplar might be a good choice of wood where rapid onset of a fire is to be avoided e.g. in a flour or gunpowder (charcoal) mill.

Regards

Ken Hume



I am puzzled where poplar came into the picture in flour mills, I am quite familiar with early flour mills and I really cannot remember any poplar being used in their construction and or bearings which were the main source of fire

NH