[Strawbale] Oak debarking

[Corwyn]

On Sep 04, 2007, at 11:10, Speireag Alden wrote:

> Sgrìobh Barbara Roemer & Glenn Miller:
>
>> If you have a spud, you can peel it
>> more forcefully now - I don't know what a debarker is, but maybe 
>> that's what
>> you have.
>
>      It should arrive in the mail shortly.  It's a 3.5-inch planer
> which fits on the end of a chainsaw.  You can use it to de-bark,
> carve notches, and essentially do anything else which a portable
> rotary cutter would do.

If you don't have a slick or a spud, you can use a ice chopper (think 
spear with a chisel edge orthogonal to the long axis).  Not too pricey 
at good hardware stores..

On Sep 04, 2007, at 07:01, Chris Green wrote:
> I don't rightly know if "white oak" is one single species or a group...

Both actually.  That is, there is a species called white oak (quercus 
alba), and a wood called white oak which comes from many species of 
oak.  Differentiated from the wood called red oak by having closed 
pores.

> a boatbuildier (or boatbuilders) in Homer, Alaska build boat hulls  
> from
> 2x2 balsam, which is one of the least durable softwoods in my
> experience. (stinkiest, too...)  The North Pacific and Bering Straits
> are a severe environment to put a wooden boat in, so it shows how tough
> the epoxy is.

Alaskans have been building boats with that wood for thousands of 
years, most of that time without epoxy.  Shows how tough that wood 
really is.


Thank You Kindly,

Corwyn


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