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Tamarack
« on: January 03, 2017, 07:53:17 AM »
The week before Christmas was out for a rip with my side by side ,came across a farmer clearing 1/2 section of land . So I stop and chatted with him about getting some of the larger poplar . He said you can have all you want but there is some tamarack cut and delimbed ,piled in the middle of the second 1/4 . So went in  and had a look . They logged the pine and some spruce 2 years ago but the mill will not take tamarack . He said take it cause he was just going to burn it next year when he burns the poplar piles ... got 14 big loads hauled home  ,just have to repile in the back of the yard today . I cut them into 18 ft lengths some were over 70 ft long . I have never used tamarack but say it is a very  hot ,clean burning wood . Any body ever use it ?
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Re: Tamarack
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2017, 02:47:06 PM »
It all burns!
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Re: Tamarack
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2017, 03:00:53 PM »
Ayuh,....     You must be out West,....

If yer happy burnin' poplar, you'll Love tamarack,...

'round here it's known as tamarack, or larch,...
It's a fairly dense, rather rot resistent softwood kinda like hemlock,...

Probably much better firewood than poplar,....
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Re: Tamarack
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2017, 07:53:33 PM »
Definitely burns hot. I remember my mother burning some in the Findlay Oval when I was a kid. It would turn the sides of the stove cherry red.
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Re: Tamarack
« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2017, 10:25:52 PM »
Out west i'am,  north western Alberta 4 miles off the Alaskan Hi-way west of the city of grande prairie . All I have been burning is the white poplar ,when we built here 4 years ago I had to clear out about 1200 of the poplar to make the yard site . I have little over two more seasons of them left but this tamarack was only 6 miles from home. I think I will try some later in the week ,Temps are supposed to hit -30's by week end .good test I guess
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Re: Tamarack
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2017, 09:09:27 AM »
It burns well at least the slabs I have burnt but it will also mill out for some nice barn floor and wall boards stands up to the animal piss pretty good.
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Re: Tamarack
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2017, 08:20:31 PM »
I had a couple large tamaracks on my property which I cut down a few years ago.  I burnt it in the boiler.  For a softwood, it is very hard and dense and burns very well. 
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Re: Tamarack
« Reply #7 on: January 08, 2017, 06:25:29 PM »
I burned 6 cord of tamarack last year in my boiler and loved it. Good burn times and easy to handle. I would have no issues burning it again.
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Re: Tamarack
« Reply #8 on: January 08, 2017, 09:57:11 PM »
Quote from: hoardac on January 04, 2017, 09:09:27 AM
It burns well at least the slabs I have burnt but it will also mill out for some nice barn floor and wall boards stands up to the animal piss pretty good.

I was thinking about using for inside lining in the green house I want to build . But I think I will stick to my orginal plan of riping oak 2x4 down to 1 inch thick use that . I have a boat load if oak 2x4 and 4x4 that I have been hauling home from a pipe yard that is just tossing it out for fire wood .  The 2x4 are 9 ft and the 4x4 are 10 ft . I go by this yard too and from work everyday so if there is any out side the fence I load up !! Since freeze up I got over 1700 2x4 and 700 4x4
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