So I peeled the bark off my wood

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I also remove the bark when it comes off easy. I just moved a stack of 2+ year hard maple and the bark just fell off.

I've been piling it up on the path in the woods and then I run it over a bunch of times with the tractor to turn it into mulch.
 
Years ago a relative got the cores from a veneer mill. The diameter would vary somewhat but it was perfectly cylindrical and obviously debarked. Stuff burned nice. and a lot less ash.
 
PA. Woodsman said:
So what do you guys do with all the bark when you remove it?
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Toss it on the weeds in front of my wood stack. Seems to smash 'em down enough to keep it from getting overgrown.
 
Hmmm . . . Peelingwood.jpg
 
wildlingabovethebridge said:
I like to take the bark off if its loose to help it dry but won't waste much time with it. If I were on the 3 year plan I'd try to keep every last bit on there, otherwise that's a lot of wasted fuel. Are you actually skinning bolts or just peeling as you split?
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This is fresh cut wood and I peel as I split, comes off easy otherwise I wouldn't bother.. A lot of sap blisters in that bark and it holds moisture for a long time. Drying time is much faster with bark off. If I left this wood in long lengths for a year it would start to rot pretty quickly.
 
Any of you bark peelers ever run it through a woodchipper to make mulch? If so, did it work well?

I don't intentionally peel, but I've got a growing pile of bark that fell off on its own, and plenty of planter beds I could spread it on. Full sized strips wouldn't work on the flower beds.
 
It should work fine in a chipper. It would be a rather fine grade of bark mulch, not the coarse stuff they sell in the store.
 
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