So I peeled the bark off my wood

[jeffesonm]

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.

 

[peakbagger]

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.

 

[David.Ervin]

So what do you guys do with all the bark when you remove it?

Toss it on the weeds in front of my wood stack. Seems to smash 'em down enough to keep it from getting overgrown.

 

[firefighterjake]

Hmmm . . .

 

[bodhran]

Hmmm . . .View attachment 160840

I'm retired...got all kinds of time for that lol

 

[bodhran]

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?

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.

 

[iamlucky13]

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.

 

[Oldman47]

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.

 

[gerry100]

Taking the bark off is probably normal

If you start washing splits, you've got a problem