A very timely video Harry as bark craft is something I have a lot of interest in at the moment, and lovely demo from Phil too. Many thanks for sharing ~Peace~

Very interesting Harry i would like to see more of about the basket making Thanks for taking the time to share

Great video thank you. Phil's upcycled tools are fantastic, first drill bit shrink pot groovers and now this.

I love everyone's clear pride in their special tools 😊

Another nice video, Harry. Thanks, I hope we get to see the basket made.

great vid, id love to see you do more projects involving bark!

Lots of bark in this video, from trees and dogs! Lol!

Very good stuff. I would think you already have the knowledge and skills for this bark work with your experience in leather, primitive woodworking and greenwood. Splitting, stripping, lacing. You got this DONE!

I sit transfixed at these videos although they are over far too soon. A big thumbs up.

Interesting video and I will look forward to the basket. thanks

Thank you for making this video. It has given me a lot of ideas.....

Top vid again Harry! Have shared to some local APT facebook pages so a few more subscribers for you. You are a modern day Jack Hargreaves!

For the types of bark that can be stripped when very wet, my method is probably one you'd like playing around with. Freshly felled ash trees in springtime--so much sap in there that I can skin the bark off a 6" diameter, 6' long log in less than 10 minutes. First, I'll cut out a single long strip down the log. Then, I have a length of strong camp cord with a handle on each end, and I'll work the cord in at one end of the log just beneath the bark, with both ends of the loop coming out where I've removed the strip. Then I can just roll the cord down along the wood, beneath the bark. Not so much sawing with the handles, just pulling down on one side, then the other, and it comes off in one long tube. At that point, half the work of turning it into useful stuff is already done.

Great video! Loved that guys shirt!

Hello harry the tool is called a barkspud you can still buy them online at some old toolshops and you can also get a tool called a bark scraper/peeler as also a very interesting video i love the bodgers ones you make happy new year harry

Ohhhh, you’re my new favorite show.

This is awsome love ur tools im native American and we use red cedar bark too weave and similar tools like yours to process it

Cool video. I just learned of bark this year stripping slippery elm bark for medicine market. Long story short , i have a lot of bark , strips and sheets to do something with. Thats when I realized how strong and versitile this material is. My plan is to make pack baskets that you can eat if you get lost , lol. No really I am. Hope you guys have some basket making vids. Liked n subbed

I keep seeing a bark belt. Although it wouldn't be too comfortable. 😂

I love this Tool , Ill need to make it who knows what will come of it, Thanks

interesting video ,thank you very much.

Great video, Harry. I like these type crafts. I couldn't hear, how long did he say that he dries the strips?

I've tried stripping bark in the late winter and its stuck to the trunk like glue. Stripping bark in the late spring/early summer is much easier in my experience but it does depend on species to some degree

this is so cool

The dogs barking makes it hard to focus but cool video. I wonder what is making them bark so much, that’s a lot of constant barking for a dog. They don’t usually bark that constantly

Hi Harry. Which tree bark/s would you recomend for a beginner to start with. Thanks for all your videos. I would also like to see more projects using bark. Thank You

👍😉. Cool.

great stuff! I am very interested in tree bark for creating seats, sheaths, baskets etc. as I just fell a fairly big elm two days ago. It peeled very easily. However, it seems very difficult to seperate the outer and inner layers. Any tips or tricks on how to do this?

I just harvested pine bark and is full of sticky sap. Any advice ?

What kind of wood do you use?

Is the outside bark discarded? Can’t it be used for something?

What is the type of tree that is cut down for the bark? JIM

How com they dont lightly sand the outer piece so it can be used?

Very interesting video. Thanks for sharing. But I prefer tree bark above dogs barking. That is just terrible. Wasn't there a way to filter that out? What trees are the logs from?

Which trees, or barks do you recommend to harvest in winter for peeling? I am looking for twining baskets

what kind of tree bard do u use?

what kind of trees are those? Bass wood?

im from lummi nation i should prob learn how to collect bark XD

Hey I'm interested in getting involved I'm in Wiltshire how do I join ect kind regards jd

Okay, so I'll ask. What are the flowers ?

5:47 I imagine he is scaling a banana

Can i buy that tool from you?

what type of tree is featured here?

There's a lot of Barking in that video... Huhu

dog running a rabbit ?

If you take the full length of the bark instead of cutting it in pieces you'll have more options for how you use it later.

Please confirm these weren’t cut down for their bark but were ‘dead trees/ fallen’

I am TOTALLY against completely girdling live trees like this!!! When bark is removed in a complete circle around the tree trunk (called girdling), the entire lower half of the tree has been cut off from receiving sugar and amino acids, via translocation systems. The cells in the roots are essentially starved of energy and can no longer function in order to bring water and nutrients into the xylem. With no water flowing upward through the xylem (even though the xylem remains intact), the leaves will dehydrate and die, sending no nutrients back down into the tree.. Please - - use only dead tree bark or recently dead trees....