anyone ever heard of Larch trees?

[CocalicoSprings]

Are they good for anything? I have a few acres of them and they are about 18-20" in diameter. Would loggers have any interest in Larch? These are a kind of deciduous pine tree that looses needles every winter.
I was considering having them sawn into boards.
I'm thinking I should harvest since a few died in the heavy ice storms we had in PA last winter.

[Freeholder]

It's also known in some areas as tamarack (they grow in Alaska). The wood is supposed to be fairly rot-resistant, for what that is worth.

Kathleen

[hillsidedigger]

The bark of the west-coast larches has great cancer-healing properties and I have heard the trees are disappearing rapidly in some places.

[barn-apart]

Eastern Larch - Tammarck makes a very nice flooring material, nice grain similar to southern yellow pine and quite hard when dry.Some was used for log cabin constuction also as it does not check ( crack) radically and they are usually straight.

[fretti]

Larch is highly prized in the lumber industry.

Originally Posted by hillsidedigger

The bark of the west-coast larches has great cancer-healing properties

Larches? Wow. I knew that Yew has cancer fighting properties but I didn't know about larch.

[blufford]

And its also used for bonsai.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larch

[Chixarecute]

Tamarack poles were used to make rafters in my husbands grandparents home shortly after the turn of the century. The home is still being used today by my 90 year old mother in law.

[Michael Kawalek]

Western Larch is considered a high grade timber species, with lumber valued about the same as Douglas Fir.

[MaineFarmMom]

The poles in my barn are larch cut on our property. The baseboards of one of the greenhouses and the hoop houses are larch we had milled.

Larch is highly prized in the lumber industry.

Not here. The only thing it's good for here is hog fuel.

[hillsidedigger]

Originally Posted by fretti

Larch is highly prized in the lumber industry.


Larches? Wow. I knew that Yew has cancer fighting properties but I didn't know about larch.

Yew are correct, its not larch.

[wogglebug]

Lumberjacks have heard of them:

http://www.jumpstation.ca/recroom/co...umberjack.html