Hello,

So admittedly a bit late in the year I'm busy splitting & stacking some poplar wood as firewood for next winter and reading this post prompted me to try and split out some shingles while doing so. In total about a half hour's effort with mallet and fro, drawknife, shaving horse and carpenters axe netted close to .5 square meters. All pure quarters, wood is very green (see Richard Casselman topic) the billets could have been straighter of grain and there would have been less waste. I know nailing can often split sweet chestnut shingles but poplar nails well. I've had poplar test shingles sitting outside for five years holding up seemingly fine.



Greetings,

Don Wagstaff