Burning the outside layer has been used for thousands of years. I char a lot of projects and they're great still after 10+ years. Especially resinous woods as it encourages the resin to come to the surface. Think about it, charcoal never rots. Cheers J

@Grenzkraft

9 ай бұрын

I think it also makes it harder as well. I usually burn wood to get rid of the moisture, then carve whatever I want to carve out of it and eventuelly gently burn it again, when it's done. Big pieces of wood, gently heated, make great "hot water bottles".

Removing bark, charring and taring or oiling apparently used to be the way of preserving garden structures around here

@jessicaleighdargaclark4536

10 ай бұрын

I’d love to see something on charring especially parts that are in contact with the ground.

@SigynsHope

10 ай бұрын

I used charred cedar boards for my raised garden beds. They've lasted a few years. I scraped off some dry rot when I had to move, then recharred. I think it would have kept better if the wood hadn't been so green

@bagsmode

10 ай бұрын

Watched a dude doing the Japanese technique, said wood needs at least 3 weeks before charing

@EctoMorpheus

8 ай бұрын

​@@jessicaleighdargaclark4536you'd love to see something on charring, especially parts that are in contact with the ground.

Cheers Dan

Have to peel the bark from anything you're setting in the ground. We used to use cedar for fence posts and peeling the bark on a fresh cedar is a huge pain. If you don't though, the bark rots away first and you have a loose post. So, this would apply to anything you're driving in the ground intending to serve for awhile, such as supports for a more developed shelter.

Great video...thanks.

Thanks for all you do. Great videos.

I just watched girl in the woods with Brooke Whipple,she did her logs after the sap ran,it came off so easy. Having the right tools is half the process. Stack and dry and ready to use.👍☘️😎

I didn’t know that! Thank yiu

I'm gonna get back to scrappin' my stuck too Dan. 🤣 Thanks for the video.

Awesome, Very Informative. Thanks 😮...Alan in 🇨🇱

Good to see bushcraft stuff thats not just ASMR!! I'm trying to build a little cove under my tree, thank you! Subscribed. Pls make a treehouse video! Can I use wood for a floor over tree roots? thx again!

😊Thanks for sharing Dan😊

I never have wood with bark anywhere near my house. I had some wood at the end of my property for less than a year and when I picked a piece up there were terminates between the bark and the wood. Thanks for the lesson for the day!

@fredflintstone6163

8 ай бұрын

Bark Beatles often eat the tender part between bark and wood on downed trees in a few weeks 😊

Your videos are always very informative. Thanks

I’ve started recently using 50/50 turpentine and boiled linseed oil for my outdoor seating (benches)I built myself they stay out all year.

I have allot of young tulip trees growing out here. For an experiment I took the bark off of a standing one. It took about 2 months, but the leaves finally fell off. Now that it's dead in letting it dry out in place, then will cut it and use it.

You missed a point about leaving the bark on, at the beginning... You mentioned it can rot & decay, but another think I have seen of leaving it on is insect getting in there and making a mess of it. 🐛

Great video!!!!

My family would leave the bark on firewood we cut and split for winter in part because it blocked moisture- or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that we left the bark because there’s no point in debarking firewood but we made use of the bark’s relationship with moisture. The layer stored on the ground could be bark down and still dry out some and the layer at the top of the stack was bark up and therefore better protected from rain (we covered it too of course but it doesn’t hurt to have an extra layer)

Great video 😊

This was good information 👍🏽

Really enjoyed watching cheers dude

Great tip

Great info and video bruh as always

Good stuff, thanks

This one was verry usefull❤.

Nice video as per usual

I used a draw knife and scraped my 12 foot tipi poles. I store them under the deck so they have some exposure. Still good after a year.

Thanks for this information, I've seen log cabins with the wood bark on, old cabins , rotting away. I didn't know this info before. Thanks again!

Another great video. As the bark started to wear away on that pack frame, wouldn't the lashings loosen up as the bark peeled from underneath them? I would think that the lashing points, on frame-like projects, should at least have their bark striped away. Much of the time you're making notches anyway so why not just remove the bark on the other side of the notch?

Heads up to anyone who may have bought an Afghan Kazan pressure cooker after seeing it in an old video here-- test it for lead before using it again! Apparently the place that makes them uses recycled aluminum, and they have a big problem with contamination from alloys with high lead content. Amazon and other sites have pulled them after a public health alert was issued in Boston due to a bunch of refugee children having very high levels of lead in their blood, which was traced back to the pressure cookers their parents had taken with them from Afghanistan. Some of the cookers they tested contained 65 thousand times more lead than should be in aluminum cookware. You can test yours using a chemical lead test swab kit you can get from Amazon, where you wipe it on the bare metal and the swab will change color if it reacts with lead. Mine lit up like a Christmas tree. Might be worth a community post or follow up video to warn people as I know they became really popular a year or two ago.

Yes Dan, I did enjoy it! Lol, no, really. Peace man.

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What about coating dry wood with resin?

There is lots of life and life loves water and some of it will eat your stuff if you let moisture into it.

Hey great video, do you happen to have any classes left for the year for adults as we are in Ohio ?

I'm from PA I would like to get into all of this do you know of any group/groups in Pa thanks

A very informative video, but I think the title is a bit misleading. I expected to learn about crude ways of treating wood, e.g. charring or rubbing in various substances. The video is still about preservation, but I think it's a bit too specific on just the bark to call it "How to preserve..." Anyway, still a great video. Thanks!

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Girdle the trees while they are standing, to be harvested later when the wood has died and dried.

Fungus & microbes love hiding under bark !

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naked wood

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1: dont scrape your stick too long... mama said you can go blind. And 2: i think you kept using the word " reusable" when you meant disposable. (No judgment) :)