Little to warm for my liking to stack wood or work the saw buck. Swamp is too wet this year to skid out last season's left overs, those will have to wait for freeze up. Spent most of yesterday loading dead vehicles for a scrap run, didn't really feel like working on anything mechanical today. So I decided to take the wheeler for a cruise. My back yard is getting pretty slim. There are about a dozen standing dead along the pipe line easement and that is about it. I scooted across the road to check the neighbors place. Got to know him alot better last spring after the fire and he stopped by yesterday during the scrap metal Olympics. He said again that I was welcome to come over and cut. I said thanks and that I'd wait until after deer season. He said that be great, his mom is a big time deer hunter and he'd never hear the end of it if I was out there running a saw when she was waiting for da thurty point buck... Got a nice little pile of down tamaracks. These are from last summers storm. Got some aspen down, pretty fresh and on high ground. Should still be good. Spotted this on the way out, looks like a tamarack. Lotsa wood that needs a skidding winch. Better get cracking on my farmall m three point and winch.
Winch or a dray. Dray is much cheaper and I like the way you can get the wood up off the ground. It also pulls easy.
Yup, in the very north region. Basically north of duluth up into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Pseudo-Wilderness. Our flavor is Larix laricina. I already have a braden M2, most of the steel fir the frame and blade, and 800 feet of 3/8" cable. Need to source a pto shaft, two pillow blocks two sprockets and some roller chain yet. Otherwise it's just AutoCAD and stick time to get it done.
Cool! I have relatives that live between Park Rapids and Bemidji, and on our visits there I never noticed any Tamarack. Now I know why. Good burnin wood. I wish it grew in Western WA, but too wet and cloudy here for that. I know in Eastern WA it likes to grow where there is good sun exposure and in areas that get less precipitation.
Sounds like it's AKA Eastern Larch. So says the internet, so it must be true. Larix laricina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
