Larch

[cornish chough]

Who likes cutting larch ?

How do you get on?

[SteveA]

I loves it.

cheers, steve

[MattyF]

Felling or milling ? I like felling it , as they usually have clean stems and easy to dress out which is nice if your getting payed by the tonne... not too enjoyable to mill but the timber is very durable.

[spuddog0507]

Who likes cutting larch ?

How do you get on?

 

Hi good to fell easy dressing out felled about 3500 tonne on a steep bank that was felled to waste due to being infected, had nightmares about it as it was a site with very few infected trees and some cracking straight 100ft poles with 600mm dbh

[Brushcutter]

Who likes cutting larch ?

How do you get on?

 

Like felling Larch easy to dress and it's always fairly easy to process to lengths. I also like milling it, yes you get covered in a lot of sap but it's easy to cut.

 

I hate peeling it before you milling it.

[Graham w]

I love it!

cuts very well with easy positioning

[Rough Hewn]

Good to fell. Bit sticky.

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[Big J]

We're in the milling forum chaps. Kim is asking about how it mills.

 

Hate the stuff with a passion. Covers the blade in resin, rarely cuts true, springs all over the place when you try to cut dimensional timber out of it, covers you in sap and those tiny little splinters and it's difficult to get decent quality saw logs.

 

Much, much prefer cedar and that's what I offer my customers when I can.

[billy_wizz]

I find it to be either great or crap no middle ground very springy if felled in spring or autumn cutting results depend on what your milling it with we used to have a forester horizontal with narrow bands spring set and it used to squash the Teath in real quick and gum up but wide bands with satellite tips it's not bad!

The little hair thick splinters are God awfull though

[MattyF]

I've had some really weird compression on larch so bad not even wedges every few inches helped , I was wondering if it had possibly come off a wind blow site and had continued growing for years after it was that bad... or is that normal? The only time I've experienced it felling with saws pinching on bars has been on wind blow that has continued growing adding some adverse tensions in the timber.