Need a new well house

[project]

I need to build a new well house but I don't have any small pines for logs but I'm covered in hickory. I have a couple of hundred small hickory, 6" to 8" that I'm taking out anyways. The well house is only going to be a 14'x14' which is why I need the smaller logs. Has anyone ever tried to debark green hickory?? I thought about letting it dry a few months and loosen up.

[rreidnauer]

"Dry" rarely associates itself to easy peeling.

[project]

At first I was thinking about letting them dry until the bark became loose but I think hickory wood become too hard to work with at that point

[rreidnauer]

Hmm. How 'bout building green with the bark on? Then wait for it to come loose, (might take quite a while) then peel & chink?

[project]

That's an option. I cut about 40 down over the weekend and stacked them out to air dry. Ill see how long it takes for the bark to come loose.

[rreidnauer]

It wouldn't surprise me if it took a year. I have a bunch of maple and cherry down for about nine months now, and it isn't willing to give up it's bark yet.

[loghousenut]

I'm wondering why a 14x14 has to be built with small logs.

[project]

It doesn't have to be built out of small logs, I was wanting to use what I had and was cutting down already . The only pines I have are around 14" and reserved for my house.

[patrickandbianca]

Hickory peels really easy when its fresh. It's a nightmare a few weeks after cutting.

Patrick

[project]

Hickory peels really easy when its fresh. It's a nightmare a few weeks after cutting.

Patrick

I'm going to cut some down in a couple in a couple of weeks and try it.

[corylacon]

It's better to debarked knotless hickory with a bandsaw, when all else fails. These is the thing which I do or you can drawknife it off.