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+Handcraftsup I bought a Dutch Hoe this weekend & also a painter's scraper - sharpened then up and they worked a treat! The logs I'm peeling are an Australian Eucalypt Stringybark variety, which I'm using to make hand-rails for my front steps/porch, and other spots around the house. For smaller, shorter logs, you can start to peel the bark at one end of the cut, using the painter's scraper, and then literally peel the rest of the length of bark off the log in one go, using your hand. For larger logs, the Dutch Hoe make's life a lot easier, as you don't need to bend down or use sawhorses. You keep the log on the ground, and peel a section of bark off the log first, Work that line along the length of the log, Roll a bit, and repeat. You can get big swathes of bark using this technique. Useful for temporary roofing, making quick canoes, and any other time you need a big hunk of fairly flexible wood for something.

+ghostzart Thanks I agree.

It does not say anywhere on it that I can see. It is old.

tyomen 8 inch likely your best best

I really do not know the correct answers to your questions. Sure do not want to tell you something and screw up your project. I know there are right times and probably depends a lot on your climate.

1st of June is what they say. Late winter or early spring. Take off the "brown" layer. A year to dry. Sheesh. It's said that a "butt and pass" system can be done with green logs. I'm impatient. Probably I'll do a version of that. Thinking of buying a " log wizard" to save time and energy.

Cut in spring and peel everything off within a week of cutting them down. Let sit and dry for around 2-3 months then cut to size and build don't want to do wet everything will shrink and cause a lot of gaps and make structure settle funny

saw one vid saying it's wise to seal the ends of the cut logs because they dry out faster than the rest of the log which can cause splits.... never done it before, but will be cutting down some dangerous trees on my land this summer.

Yes, you can. The bark might come off harder but can be done. But sometimes it comes off a lot easier you might get lucky.

About 2 inches my blade might have been wider when it was newer, The more you sharpen as the years pass the less metal.

@@davidspiesman9625 Oh sorry I meant length. I'm buying one to do trees on my property (15" to 20"+) and was wondering what a good length would be.

I like my longer one and use it most. Feels better safer in my hands

@@davidspiesman9625 Yeah thats what I figured. Any particular brands you'd recommend? Thanks

I do not know any brands. I bought used ones I found on eBay to save money.

Excuse me sir but I am 23 and I love hard work and making things from scratch and nature! But I agree my generation doesn't even know what "work" is

+TheSturmgeist 92 wow where are all the kids like you!?

Extinct

You mean like to shave Big Foot?

Handcraftsup no I've heard everyone call it a drawshave and I thought it made sense because you pull it to you and it shaves wood so I though it was a draw shave

Sounds like a smart plan

@@davidspiesman9625 it sounds smart like 99% of the time........ but when you're dragging logs and your back is cramping up and it feels like Mike Tyson just punched you in the kidneys... it sounds like a pretty shit idea lmfao. But man, it's just me and nature out there......and a chainsaw and fossil fuels and a lot of coffee lololol

Yes, it does, but it was a small tree.

Yes I agree but this is what I used to build with. The weight of these sticks I can manage by myself.

Handcraftsup more power to ya. I'll look at some more of your videos if you have some.

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i do and I despise this generations youth and I'm 29.

+Anton Bouchette 18 here and still rocking out the crosscut saw for firewood... Trying to say I am lazy? (I dont burn alot just for rec use around the place about 1-2 cords worth a year takes me about 11 hours to get 1 cord, fallen, split, and bucked up)

28 and I split wood with a maul that I forged, using tools that I forged, with coal I collect in the wild, etc. I do these things in the free time I get from my blacktopping company that I bought and have been successfully operating since 2009. While I do agree there are a lot of lazy people out there, I'd love to see a study that would determine the ratio of lazy to non-lazy people in each generation... though I don't know how you could conduct such a study. The primary difference in our generations, in my opinion, is that we younger folk tend to be much more analytical. We like to look at processes or ideas and figure out how we can do it better, and we take pride in that, as opposed to taking pride in the amount or quantity of work. The world needs both, my man. Unfortunately, a lot of us think we're smarter than we actually are, and a lot of you think you're better at what you do than you actually are. Nothing good would ever be viewed as good without opposition to compare it to.

Don't get stuck in your ways, view everyone as a resource, and figure out how to utilize your resources.

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