DE-barking a log half

This is kind of low-tech, but how about using a bark spud and just peeling it off by hand?

(a bark spud is kind of like a great big wood chisel with a long handle - you push it down the log peeling up the bark)

Tom

Or a draw knife works well. A good quality knife keeps a sharp edge, also.

Sonny

Another common method is to use a hatchet. It probably depends on the size and shape of the piece.

I've used a Bastard file on some wood. It is the file that has hooks to grab wood. I use it two-handed. Grind the wood with the center area.

Just remember with a tool of any type can grab something and pull in or throw the tool out at you.

Martin

I tried a hatchet once and also a wide chisel. Neither of which worked well. Actually the chisel had to be driven thru the boundary of the bark and wood.

I think I have see guys doing sculpture work on big logs using a right angle grinder and some sort of blade but looked at Lowe's today and they have nothing like that.

Time to do some Googling I guess.

Thaanks for the replies.

---------------------------------------------------------- The following works on fiberglass, it would be my first stab at it.

A 4" Dia, Milwaukee right angle sander/grinder equipped with a sanding disc attachment.

Remove the guard.

Don't waste your time with anything but Milwaukee.

I burned out everybody but Milwaukee.

Go to a good industrial hardware, definitely not a Lowes or HD item.

I bought discs in lots of 60 to get a price.

Wear a sanding mask.

Lew

Fits 4" or 4-1/2" grinder with 5/8" arbor:

Something like this would do the job

or an arbortech Pro-4 perhaps.

"Lew Hodgett" <

Metabo, best there is!

I've turned a couple hundred bowls from green wood, and if the bark isn't loose enough to peel off by hand, I turn it off. It's much quicker and easier. It takes a lot less energy to sharpen a gouge than to get the bark off. You might want to get David Ellsworth's video on his signature gouge. He uses the gouge in a different way, that removes the bark and shapes the bowl easier than the older methods

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Draw Knife

john

I am doing some turning as a beginner and find that removing the bark from a bowl blank to be time consuming and tool dulling.

I am looking for a way of removing bark on a green blank.

Am wondering if a right angle grinder with some sort of blade would work but I can't find the right kind of blade.

Any ideas.

Thanks.

And isn't the way - from the top down to skin it off.

Lots of people start from the bottom and go up. Guess they figured the cut off area was to start from.

Martin

Thanks for the ideas. I will try some of them.

Yep, and that's made in the USA... so double bonus. The chineese version costs more.

Same one as harbor freight but about $18 more at lee valley