TAMARACK: A UNIQUE TREE!

[@danielroberts2135]

Thank you for your insightful and educational lesson on Tamarack Trees. Wonderful! Dan

[@jessiee2115]

Not to mention they sure smell good in the fire. They were a real treat growing up in Montana. Love these guys!

[@johnvandenburgh8771]

We sometimes find them 30"plus in diameter, here in Idaho. Tamarack/Western Red Larch, one of the prettiest trees around, and great firewood.

[@lorarowe8423]

Thank you !! Great introduction!!! I may get one

[@tractorboy31]

cool. learned something today. thanks

[@ThatChipperGuy]

+tractorboy31 That's good!!

[@MyerShift7]

They are beautiful. There are stands of them in swampy areas and near waterways commonly even as far south as Southern Michigan (within six miles of Indiana state line).

[@steveh4337]

hi john we have tamarack here in northern New Hampshire and they grow in wet areas and swamps here also another good video ty Steve Hatfield

[@ThatChipperGuy]

+Steve H Thanks so much for Watching!!

[@BossmanEight]

Most interesting. I grew up in northern Indiana (St. Joseph County) on the south side of the county. Lots of bogs & swamps but I can't say I ever saw anything like a Tamarack. Maybe only in northern Michigan?

[@ThatChipperGuy]

+BossmanEight They are around here and to the north....might be some south I'm not sure. Thanks for Watching!

[@BossmanEight]

Must be a Michigan "thing". I've never seen them in Indiana, north or south. Sad, actually. they look rather cool!

[@markmorris3579]

BossmanEight-We have them in Maine as well.The old timers here called the hackmatacks.

[@LadyYoop]

Interesting!! I live in Baraga, and around the "Head of the Bay" (Keweenaw Bay) it's all Tamaracks....way cool vid!! Thanks!

[@w056007568]

That's really interesting information, thanks.

[@ThatChipperGuy]

+Dan Whiteford Your welcome Dan!

[@w056007568]

You might be interested to know that larch here in the UK is a favoured for fencing, gates and garden furniture due to it's natural resistance to rot as well as being quite common.

[@cooperbadger6217]

Cool vid

[@ThatChipperGuy]

+Snickersthecat And Cooper Thanks for Watching!!

[@The_blindpizzaguy1300]

There's a lot of those trees around here in North Carolina. They like mountainous terrain and every year around Christmas I always see some because people use them for Christmas trees. Of course what's the needles falling all over the place I don't know how they keep their ornaments on.

[@ThatChipperGuy]

+Alex Williamson'sadventures Haha Thanks for Watching Alex!!

[@super6954]

Hi I'm sure My Dad used Tamarack for the wall posts in our last 2 biotech shelter hog barns he built 14 years ago. It's a darker color wood compared to spruce lumber we get and pretty hard to cut and bang nails/drive screws into . I think it also has something natural in it so it doesn't rot as quick as regular wood, or rail ties like our other barns use for the posts. This still looks new if it's pressure washed when the barns cleaned out compared to the other wood in there. If you get a splinter off of it in your finger it swells up and gets infected pretty quick if you don't get it out to. Maybe thats to do with the natural part in the wood that stops it rotting, the other wood doesn't do it . What we got was cheaper than older used rail ties as they used it to put under something heavy instead of pallets that was shipped on trucks, so they could still use fork lifts to unload it. I wish I could get more it's real useful wood for certain things.

[@douglaslaramie9245]

I'll have to go on a crop tour and see if I can find any of those deciduous conifer Tamarack trees around the marshy areas around here (SW Ontario ). You never know, that bit of trivia may come up in a game of Trivial Pursuit and I'll have Big John to thank. On a horse and wagon tour of Mackinaw Island, I was the only person to know what made the big holes in the trees. Answer- Pileated Woodpecker. Our driver was impressed. I bet a woodsman like you knew that already. Right Big John. Thanks, doug

[@ThatChipperGuy]

+Douglas Laramie oh yeah! Love them pileated woodpecker!! Haha Thanks so much for Watching!!

[@catdieselpower193]

hell bud we got bunches of them here in my world! sweet vid bud they grow around creeks here in the hills!

[@ThatChipperGuy]

+CAT POWER OR BUST! (ALLDAY) That's cool! Thanks for Watching Cat Power!!

[@WorkingHorsesWithJim]

Sometimes they grow on dry ground, I did a couple videos on them that were 3 ft in diameter.

[@thomascrouch6135]

When I was just a young boy I was introduced to what was called a Tamarack bush. They did not grow more than ten feet tall and the limbs were very springie. My mother would make me go down to the bush and cut her a switch to use on me. I got smart one day and took her a long thin branch. She made me go back down to the bush and cut one that had a little strength to it and she switched my legs with the thin one all the way down to the bush. Needless to say I never cut a puny one again.

[@jake4x41982]

Thomas Crouch

[@ThatChipperGuy]

+Thomas Crouch Oh no!!! Great comment!! Thanks for Watching!

[@leebarnes655]

Often called a Tamarack here too, that is actually a Tamarisk which is truly an invasive specie. Hard to kill, will live on highly alkaline soil where nothing else will, it is a large shrub at best. As you state, very lively wood akin to a Shakespeare ugly stik in that they are unbreakable by normal means. Prime switch wood for sure. Me and my sister found the hiding spot for ours behind the fridge so we hid it some where else. Only earned us a five minute reprieve as mom just went and made another one. We thought it was a good idea at the time too. Not so much it turns out.

[@LordMuck]

Never heard of one here in England although we do have Larch which is a deciduous conifer. Probably related as a species ? *EDIT* Just found out we call the Tamarack the 'American Larch' Cheers for the vid John !

[@calebnewton3261]

we have european Larch in England which do the same

[@MyerShift7]

Same! 🥳

[@darrenrhodenizer9431]

Hear in Nova Scotia we saw lumber out of the big ones and use it for decking the small ones go for fence posts.

[@ThatChipperGuy]

+Darren Rhodenizer Copy that Darren! Thanks for Watching!!

[@catdieselpower193]

And ps bud here in the west there called (western larch) trees! for the record!

[@ejsayler1]

We also have a sub-alpine larch at high elevations!

[@TrailLark]

We love the Tamarack! We celebrated our product launch filming and camping in a beautiful Tamarack marsh. You can check it out on our channel. See you on the trails!

[@boardbysled]

We have two native species here in the PNW, Western Larch and Sub-alpine Larch. Some places they also plant hybrid Larch. Old boss planted a smiley face in view from the highway with hybrid Larch for the face and Doug-Fir for the eyes and mouth. katu.com/news/local/giant-smiley-face-planted-on-hillside-leads-to-lots-of-smiles-11-19-2015

[@ThatChipperGuy]

+boardbysled Thats awesome!!!

[@alexmatthews2332]

Just got back from the UP this weekend, pleanty of them up there!

[@ThatChipperGuy]

+Alex Matthews Oh yeah! Lots of marshes up there! Thanks for Watching!! They look great this time of year.

[@ShlisaShell]

Thanks.

[@SkidderKev]

we have had guys cut them down because they thought they were dead. the best part is seeing there face when u tell them they lose there needles in the fall. haha

[@ThatChipperGuy]

+Skidder Kev Haha that's good stuff!

[@douglaslaramie9245]

Tamarack- sounds like a bad swear word the French in Quebec say .

[@ThatChipperGuy]

+Douglas Laramie lol Yes it does!!

[@rashadabdullah9769]

Thats Tabarnac lol. Tamarack where i live in french is called du violan

[@jbmbanter]

Google search mentioned they were used for snowshoes. I also saw that it could be used for a log cabin and flooring but was extremely hard to nail.. Really susceptible to twisting and cracking.

[@ThatChipperGuy]

+jbmbanter I bet it would great though! Thanks for Watching!!

[@alexesgate8033]

so hay there chipper guy hears a question for ur next q and a video do they make something that just debarks a log without chipping it ?

[@ThatChipperGuy]

+west coast logging alex esgate I'll try to remember this comment for next video. Thanks for Watching!!

[@zachs7565]

are they also called a larch tree?

[@ThatChipperGuy]

+zach s Yep!!!

[@Cumminsmaniac16]

so it's just a non- evergreen pine?

[@FishFind3000]

What's the smallest diameter wood you can put into the chipper without the chains just murdering the wood.

[@ThatChipperGuy]

+FishFind3000 It can Chip a 4 inch tree with ease. Thanks for Watching!!

[@OffroadTrucker740]

what is a good tree book to get. what do you read?

[@chwrangler]

We have plenty up here in Northern Ontario

[@ThatChipperGuy]

+Terry Williamson Love the Tamarack!!

[@nuts319]

they make great lumber highly resistant to rot

[@ThatChipperGuy]

+nuts319 I didnt know that! Thanks for Watching!!

[@adriansperlich7519]

Have them in OR.

[@alexesgate8033]

they make for really good fire wood to stay safe chip logs

[@ThatChipperGuy]

+west coast logging alex esgate I didn't know that! Thanks for Watching!

[@nephilly87]

Larch tree I have cut a lot of them down because people think they are dead In the winter lol

[@ThatChipperGuy]

+nephilly87 lol Thanks for Watching!!

[@jamiemaurer8629]

Northern Minnesota swamp tree. lol

[@ThatChipperGuy]

+Jamie Maurer Haha Thanks for Watching!

[@seanlyman6034]

The 2755 will eat them too!

[@ThatChipperGuy]

+Sean Lyman Yes sir it would!! Thanks for Watching Sean!!

[@kenluggi]

I am told, tamarack when prepared, is a substitute for viagra!!!!

[@Dollapfin]

Stop calling conifers pines. Call them conifers. Please.

[@ThatChipperGuy]

Pines