Should i remove bark from firewood

If there are no loose areas, position the blade somewhere on the cambium layer. The cambium layer is the layer of tissue between the bark and the wood.

Push down on the tool to cut into the cambium layer and insert the blade. Hold the log in one hand and tilt the tool with the other to pry the bark from the wood. The bark may come off all at once, or it may come off in chunks. I let it dry now. I have actually put fires out in a fireplace with green whitepine.

Green, whitepine contains so much moisture it takes as much heat to burn it as the wood itself will give off. Dry it out and it makes darn good kindling for starting a fire. Burnsup clean but doesnt create a lot of coals. Quote from: muddstopper on February 09, , AM. Not many blast furnace up this way. Or none that I know off. You are right about the wet pine. I've beenthere,done that experiment. Juniper, only meant to say that dealing with the public isnt always easy.

It seems they either want what I dont have or cant get, or they are tickeled to pieces with what I do have. Everybody has different ideals about the same thing. Nothing wrong with asking for what they want and providing it if you can. Just sometimes its hard to please everybody. No offense meant toward you. Oh yah, no problem at all mudstopper. I completely agree with what you just said.

Ridding trees of their bark especially juniper would appeal to some customers, and some like it. It just takes too long for the wood to get to the point where the bark peals off. I have it all sold by then. Sometimes bits still don't come off by hand anyway. No offense taken and I truly do the best I can at making customers happy.

My little business is run not by money, but by smiles. And when people are happy, I'm happy, and they come back for more. Pages: [ 1 ] Go Up. Share Topic. Look at all those pieces of wood in the picture above. Removing the bark from wood will most likely speed up the seasoning process. The outside shell is there to protect the wood and trap moisture. At the very most it will take a few weeks off the seasoning process.

Your time would be better spent splitting and stacking more wood. This is one of those things that I will leave up to your interpretation. Bark burns faster and hotter than traditional logs so burning it will change the consistency of the fire. A fire that burns hot will run through more wood, but it will put out a lot of heat. Plus the added bark is more fuel to go into the fire.

Anybody that has a fireplace in their house knows how much of a mess bark can be. Removing the bark will reduce the mess that comes into the house. It forms a rough U-shape, and if that bark is put on the bottom, it can act as a bowl that collects rain or snow. On the other hand, if you put the bark side up, then the U-shape of the bark will be facing downwards, which reduces the amount of water that it can collect.

So, if for this reason or another, you decide that you do want to debark your firewood. If you were to try to peel the bark off of fresh green wood, it would require significantly more effort. If you just need a little more leverage, you might be able to use your bark spud as a makeshift crowbar. In other words, slide your tool in between the bark and the wood, and push outwards to try to pry the bark off.

Alternatively, you can chop the bark off with your hatchet, similar to how you would split kindling off of the edges of a log. You may find it helpful to put down a large round log face side up , so that you can use it as a chopping block. If debarking is important to you, and if you have plenty of time to let your firewood season, then it will probably be easier for you to season your wood before splitting it.

In other words, your steps would go like this:. Whether or not this is practical will obviously depend on the size and weigh of your rounds, but I think you get the idea.

One of the biggest challenges with firewood identification in general, is how to identify the wood without any leaves available. And one way you can do this, is by looking for distinctive features in the bark.