CDN Farm Boy
Veteran Member
I just came home with 56 fresh cut cedar fence posts now I need to get the bark off. Back when I was a kid, we'd wait for the moisture to form under the bark and use a spud to peel them but I don't have 6 months or so to wait, I want to use them next weekend.
I'm looking to build a peeler/debarker as I'd rather spend the time to build an attachment than to do it by hand anyways. Except for one lowly thread, searching, including Google and YouTube only seems to get me ones with planer knives and are rather elaborate for limited use.
I have an old gearbox I saved off a junk crop chopper that I was thinking of mounting a car rim to with some short chains bolted to the rim and then feed the post past. Kind of like a weed whacker will take the bark off if you get too close.
Thoughts?
I'm looking to build a peeler/debarker as I'd rather spend the time to build an attachment than to do it by hand anyways. Except for one lowly thread, searching, including Google and YouTube only seems to get me ones with planer knives and are rather elaborate for limited use.
I have an old gearbox I saved off a junk crop chopper that I was thinking of mounting a car rim to with some short chains bolted to the rim and then feed the post past. Kind of like a weed whacker will take the bark off if you get too close.
Thoughts?