In my high school days I provided paper companies in Wisconsin with peeled logs. Used a drawknife to open a slit then a "spud" to peel bark. The spud was an 18-inch or so section of leaf spring ground to a taper at one end. Other end had a foot long or so "T" made up of rod welded to the spring. Local blacksmith made these. I would cut the slot then force the spud under the bark. The "T" gave me leverage to peel the bark away. I peeled mostly popple and the bark would come off with a popping sound. Each log was cut into 100 inch lengths and pulled out of the woods to be piled where a truck could get at them. In the fall I would sell the logs to a trucker who picked them up and hauled them to a mill. Seeing you peel these logs brought back a lot of memories! Thank you.

I know you enjoy your folks. Miss mine.

Great video Squatch! A hard day's work is much better than a card. Happy Father's to senior. The little kubota and super M done great. Cheers

Much better than a card!

Good looking garden

Love the big vegetable garden

What a great day, the garden is looking pretty good too.

digital card forever. happy fathers day squatch sr !

Oh by the way happy belated Father's Day squatch senior

Excellent job

Way better than a card. Time spent with your father is priceless.

Happy Senior day. 👍😁 Yup on paper birch ya need to pill the bark off before the tree stops vibrating from the chainsaw. Cottonwood you get a second chance once the bark start to break down, messy but it can be done.

Glad you see the value in these days with your Dad, Toby. I sure miss my Dad, but memories of days like you just had are a precious commodity... and they can't be bought. Your going to need to start working on someone to call you Dad. Someone needs to take on all this equipment.

6:50, Toby, I was wondering WYE, until you answered my thought... Interesting idea for the log..

Great Father and son day working in harmony getting the job done couldn't get any better 👍

Great sound on the Solo.

Thanks for the video Toby! Yeah we’re not a card family either. I helped my dad organize the shed Saturday plus got him a couple rain caps for the Allis’s he has. Something he needed. Thanks for the update and can’t wait to see what comes next!

Excellent video and excellent fathers day gift for senior

drove a farmall super m many times from the age of 12 on granpas farm he had 2 of them crank start first time usually very cold in winter i have seen some with a cushion on the saddle never saw a cushion this was in south otago nz

Nice. 👍😎

Great to see you working with your dad. Best father's day is doing those types of activities. The Super M will not be denied! Love that tractor!...thanks for the videos

Happy belated father's day to Sr.

You Guys can’t have a lazy bone in your body your garden looks perfect no weeds and nice straight rows all your equipment is in excellent shape and all the wood you cut is nicely stacked and covered well done gentlemen I really admire how much hard work you put in to whatever projects you’re working on 😀🇨🇦

Great Father's day gift. My son helped me put new Freon hoses on my truck. Gona be 106 degrees here Sunday.

That was a Great Video Dude,made me wanna jump in and help.!!!

Good for you! I am glad for you that you still have a dad to work with.

Happy Fathers Day to Senior! Enjoyed the video!

You will always have a video to look back on and remember this day.

Happy father's day senior! I really enjoy the father and son videos

l am very impressed with your weed free garden!! That does not happen without alot of hard work!!! l enjoy your videos where you work the dirt!!! Very interesting watching the bark come off tree trunks seems like l remember learning about that in grade school!!! l will be watchin!!!

As I watched, I thought of the nice equipment being skillfully used. As I watched, it became apparent how much work is involved that the machinery made possible. I was thinking about a big hand saw when Senior was starting to section it off and a team of horses to roll the stump. My grandfather was born in 1901, he became very good with repairing and maintaining Altman Taylor steam traction engines and the other equipment they used as horses were being replaced. I wish I would have had the sense to learn more from him but I did get some of the the basics down. When he retired and moved to the cabin on Ten Mile lake, near Walker, he discovered that he could have as much work as he wanted, working on boat engines. Grandma could sure cook fish, never had any better. Thanks for jogging the memories!

Quality time doing something together is best.. the crops out of the garden yum.

Hi U 2, well, I learnt something new - bark harvesting. Guess it could be done yearly. Presumably used for shelter building in years gone by?

Happy father's day to all. Hope you all got to spend it with your loved one's.

You sure do have beautiful soil out there, I love the H content going to be building one from 3 this winter. Keep safe Tim

Superb fathers day activity. I wish my father was alive to see me do now all the work that I do. I hear the hydraulic pump making a buzzing noise? Is there a mystery air leak now in the hydraulic system? Some pumps tend to be on the whining side and noisy. In other cases it's a indication of a failure to be discovered.

That's a lot of spoon wood!

spend as much time as you can with Dad as mine is not here anymore. always did stuff together and miss it. you and Dad and Mom stay safe.

I like these work videos as much as the restoration ones, actually more. It's good to have some variety. Thanks

I lost my Dad 24 years ago and I certainly miss him. I had a neighbor that was from Germany and every summer he would send his brother a letter written on birch bark .I guess they don't have those trees in Germany

Back when i did mountain man reenacting we made various types of buckets from birch bark.Stiched with rawhide strips and waterproofed with beeswax and pitch.I went in to selling them along with leathergoods at Rendezvous.

I have peeled quite a bit of bark off trees, but I have never gotten it off when the tree has just been cut down. I end up pulling it after the tree has been down for at least a year. I have heard that it is possible, but I have not been able to get the conditions right to do it. The bark I have peeled is Western red cedar. My cabin and woodshed use it for siding.

Learn something new every day😊

I love my Kubota L4701 and my BH92 backhoe. fun seeing what can be done with one when you have dirt rather than 4' down basalt "gravel". Yes feet not inches... actually a fair amount of ledge too. Amazing how well stuff grows in this mess

So what applications do you use the birch bark for? I know it's waterproof and birch has medicinal properties. Nice you take care of Sr's needs. I never had a father relationship like you do and I envy you.

Happy Farther’s day senior. Nice job getting Squatch Grafting For Two days rather than one 👊🏻

Canned Damascus tree! Peel off the outside just like Forged in Fire, lol.

Happy Father's day 😊 .

"There's your card!" Love it. :-)

The first part of this video looked a lot like what happens when my sons help me out. Son standing there with the electronics while Dad does the heavy lifting. I kid! I kid! 😂 No, I know you were doing plenty while the camera wasn't running. And really, it's pretty nice when my boys come spend time out in the garden with me, even if they're just standing and chatting while I work. Good stuff, dude. I like seeing the tractors look good, but I like seeing them working even more.

Treasure every moment you get to be with you farther because when they end you will miss them.

Pappy!

Yeah, if you leave the intermediate layer alone, the bark regens pretty fast (at least on the ones i've seen). I don't have them, but my brother's neighbor has 30 of them lining up the border line and every few years we help him debark them. I heard it helps force the tree to stay "juvenile" and last longer, and indeed, these trees look far better and stronger than stuff i see in forests or other people's properties. The bark is smoother, it has a lot more meat, close to what that the intermediate layer on yours did on the ones that split and it's very elastic, springy almost. They certainly pop the moment we run the knife and it's actually quite a chore to score the bark all the way down fast enough so it doesn't split unevenly. I'm usually at the bottom, my brother's in the middle, my neighbor on top on the ladder and we run the blades instantly the moment the one above reaches our position, basically cutting in one go. It's neat stuff, and i love the smell. I like my Paulownia smell better (i know some people hate it) but this smells really nice. FYI, if you "feed" the trees on their opposite side of the garden, they'll disregard going for it in favor of the feed. We use a modified caulking gun with a stainless steel needle and inject nutrients (the usual mixes for tree husbandry, nothing special) about 1.5 meters away 20 cm deep. They'll send less if any roots toward the side you want. It's useful for garden stuff, but also if you start seeing them grow towards one side too much, thus endangering the stability. You guys don't have them near houses, in this case, but that's a good way to prevent them from toppling over a house in windy weather.

Happy Father Day Sr. 😎👍

Happy Father's Day take care,I look forward to seeing the next video 😊.

Looks like deer fence (we call them hog panels in Iowa) on that garden. Rabbits must get lead.

Enjoy him while he is with you. Film as much as possible.

Apparently you can tap Birch sap like maple. It takes a lot more sap but is supposed to be better

Thanks for sharing! You are a good son! We made it to Red Power Roundup Thursday. We got to Meet Pete. I told him that I thought you are using the same paint on your H and he said he should send you a bill for that. We had a great time chatting. A real nice guy! I hope to get to meet you yet this year. I am guessing you are done with shows for the year? Let us know. Now that I have a mobility cart I can get around much better.

I learn something every time I watch one of your videos. Granted, I will probably never NEED to know any of the D2 tricks I've learned nor how to bark a beech tree as they font exist down here, but now I know.

Great joint project

start cutting that root system off put it all on the fire pile.... nice bond fire material.

So what do you make out of the bark you make paper something like that? I hope your father and you are having an excellent day

Heck, I was screaming RD6 once Senior pulled out the Farmall. The torque monster would just have thought about a sweat bead.... Summer Projects

The rain changes the bark and temperature hot sun we do the same thing on big birch for fire starter 8 to10 long sheets want to make video but cutting ice damage pine thanks U 2

Should have used a cat to move the stump.

I've looked and looked............what are the plans for bark skin?

awesome squatch and senior

Great work gentlemen.

A Sawzall with a 12" Diablo pruning blade would be good for those stump roots. Dirt doesn't bother that blade for quite a while and it cuts fast.

Willl that garden fence keep out the moose?

Are you going to use the bark as firestarter or make a canoe with it? And happy father's day senior!

Always great to see how careful you and senior are NOT to damage the tractors. What did you use to pull the tree down?

Nice video my friend ❤♥❤❤🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜 A very creative idea ❤❤♥❤🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜

Happy Fathers Day Sr!

Happy Dad's day Senior! Great video....question: Why are you peeling the bark? Are you really going to make a canoe? --Juanster

Happy Fathers Day Senior

A nice change of Pace Toby doing some work around farm with your Dad it doesn't get a lot better than that

Senior seriously needs a bark spud.

Happy Father's Day, all two of them! If you burn birchwood, will it crack like pine and shooting sparks? I have lots of dried birch lying around in my area and want to use it in a firepit without scaring the neigbours... Thx for the vid! 👍👍👍

It would seem that pulling birch skin off the trees is the farm equivalent of bubble wrap.

What saw is that in the video? To me it either looks like a Dolmar or Olympyk. I do the same for Father’s Day. Labor is a good present.

Would love to see the milling of these logs. K8nd regards Christiaan

Interesting red dirt in your area.

Two days of free labour 👍 My dad had yrs of free labour.😆 Remember when I was 14yr old put up hay that summer break. I made 50$ 😁

Very interesting. Is there a market for the bark?

Nice video! The power of hydraulics are a wonderful thing! Question for you- i see all the brush and undergrowth around, do you have problems with poison ivy? That is an ongoing battle here in Michigan. How do you handle it, if so?

Very interesting 😊😊😊👍👍🌅

Why did yous peel the bark off?

Super C would have pulled that stump 😂😂😂😂

What do you use the bark for ?

Would it be more cost effective to grind the stump rather than digging and filling?

I think it's time for the Torque Monster to come out of hibernation.

What brand of chainsaw is that ? You guys have to much fun. 👍

The sm can't pull its self out of a mud puddle.

Why are you peeling the bark? SO the wood will dry faster?

Not Dad’s first time with a chainsaw. 😊Steve or yours

I’m late to the party, but are there plans for the bark?

Is there any way to lock up the difts on the super m

next build video, birch canoe lol