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Offline beenthere

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Tamarack flooring
« on: July 27, 2004, 02:17:43 pm »
This site has an interesting approach to utilizing small diameter trees in Western forests.

http://northslopewood.com/

Would be interesting to learn what system is used to get the flooring from the tamarack stems.  Anyone know?

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Re: Tamarack flooring
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2004, 09:10:24 pm »
My experience with small fast growing tamarack is that it is VERY unstable.  We have sawn some wind throws up to the cabin and its ridiculous how much that stuff cups.
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Re: Tamarack flooring
« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2004, 04:18:03 pm »
I was approached by a company called Hunter Lake Flooring a couple years ago. I think they were from New Brunswick. He had a nice website but I couldn't find it last night. He had a DH kiln and he said the Tamarack twisted and warped. I tried some in a vac kiln and it was like drying any softwood. Easy as could be. It makes a darn pretty floor from logs that look like junk (to me).
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Re: Tamarack flooring
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2004, 08:16:24 am »

This is the link to Hunter Lake Tamarack Flooring


http://www.tamarackflooring.com/Home.asp
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