NAKED WOOD

Of course there is nothing wrong with bare wood, but I wouldn't bother taking the bark off unless it fell off when I was splitting it. Bark burns fine as far as I'm concerned. It might hold in some moisture and hold more water if the wood is left out in the rain, but if you are on a three year burn cycle I hardly think it's necessary to be removing bark from your wood.

You need to put NSFW in your thread title.

Funny! I showed my wife as she was near the computer when this thread came up. I told her to read it, thinking she would say " these wood people are nuts", she then said, I like naked wood too. Its much cleaner! I was hoping for a different response.

I like the idea of burning the bugs but I can see where it could be a woman thing. Since I burn anything that even remotely resembles a tree, Im in the definitely NOT fussy catagory. Rather burn those wood boring grubs than let them pupate in a pile on my lawn. ;-) Eff the rug in the living room.

I am that way too. I can't stand bark on the wood and always tear it off. I should get a pic of the bark pile. Actually I am now wondering if that pile could be dangerous to my wood. Wonder if it breeds certain bad bugs?

STIHLY DAN said:

This is the bark that I used a claw hammer to debark as I stacked..

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I believe a good sharp drawknife is the tool you're looking for. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0..._m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0CF01ZV7T3WZK7PZ7ZYY

I picked one up for debarking logs prior to milling. Works great. You could shave off all the bark and leave it in the woods, before you ever buck the tree, if you were so inclined.

Maybe its time to start a " naked wood club " did I just type this ???

Pennsyltucky Chris said:

You need to put NSFW in your thread title.

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Do tell the meaning of NSFW and where and when the next meeting will be.


Bark- not a big fan of this stuff.
https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/bark.129637/#post-1745993

I let nature take the bark off. Man that's a lot of clawing with a hammer.

Not exactly naked when its wearing a rubber hat

Lakeside said:

Do tell the meaning of NSFW and where and when the next meeting will be.

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"NSFW" is an acronym for "Not Safe For Work."

I will de-bark any of my wood where it comes off without too much of a fight. Love the way a big stack of barkless wood looks. Practically screams "burn me!"

gzecc said:

Funny! I showed my wife as she was near the computer when this thread came up. I told her to read it, thinking she would say " these wood people are nuts", she then said, I like naked wood too. Its much cleaner! I was hoping for a different response.

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Yeah, my wife also likes my naked wood.

.........I thought this was about a new TV show!

I actually do my best to leave the bark on, and then try to stack the pieces with the bark side facing the sky.
I also make “shingles” out of some of the larger rounds, leaving the bark on about 1” of wood to roof my holz hausens.

bassJAM said:

I actually do my best to leave the bark on, and then try to stack the pieces with the bark side facing the sky.
I also make “shingles” out of some of the larger rounds, leaving the bark on about 1” of wood to roof my holz hausens.

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I like to stack bark side up too, at least the top few rows. The bark sheds water better than the wood itself, and it's usually darker so more light/heat absorbed. I've not done any scientific dry time experiments, just sounds good to me in theory.