Author Topic: Power Wash the Bark Off! (Read 21362 times)

Dane · « **Reply #15 on:** April 16, 2007, 08:02:57 pm »

Quote from: J. D. Duff on April 16, 2007, 05:12:51 pm

Dane,
You get a lot of splash-back with this method. You may want to give the rain gear a try.

J. D. Duff

I think it was Thoreau who warned against having to acquire new clothing for a job? First, I don't own rain gear, and second, us humans are waterproof. Besides, you Northwesterns probably all have rain togs just to live there.

Seriously, when I got my power washer last year, I was cleaning the deck, and made some nice grooves in a teak table, so you do have to be careful. I would have signed the top of the table, but my the wife would have killed me.

Dane

duffontap · « **Reply #16 on:** April 16, 2007, 08:45:11 pm »

Yeah, around here we call rain gear 'clothes.' Thoreau wasn't a volunteer fireman was he...?

J. D. Duff

DanaM · « **Reply #17 on:** April 16, 2007, 08:55:34 pm »

Tom Sawyer, where I grew up the local veneer mill routinely soaked their logs in ponds to loosen the bark. A time honored method.

DanaM

Dane · « **Reply #18 on:** April 16, 2007, 10:50:33 pm »

Quote from: J. D. Duff on April 16, 2007, 08:45:11 pm

Yeah, around here we call rain gear 'clothes.' Thoreau wasn't a volunteer fireman was he...?

J. D. Duff

No, I don't think so, though he was pretty clever making stuff with his hands. I think he may have made a good bow maker.

I've visted Walden Pond, pretty cool, and tromped about looking for his hut site. I never did find it. Right now, there is a big fight to save some of the woods from becoming a soccar field for a local school who owns part of the woods the poet hung about in. As usual, "progress" may mean losing something forever.

Dane

heavybow · « **Reply #19 on:** April 17, 2007, 06:23:41 am »

JD yes 120 rings per inch should make a nice bow marlon

Pappy · « **Reply #20 on:** April 17, 2007, 09:57:47 am »

If I put a log in my pool it wouldn't matter if the bark came off or not,I wouldn't get to use it cause my wife would kill me.That is a cool Idea JD.I am like Pat,wonder if it would work on wood like Hickory.I have always heard you could put in a warm shower and would make it easier but
like the pool idea I would get killed.I just cut mine in the Spring and early Summer.

Pappy

duffontap · « **Reply #21 on:** April 17, 2007, 03:48:28 pm »

Marlon,

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Pappy,
I try to cut my white wood mostly in the summer too. There are times though when it takes me a couple days or even weeks to strip it and I think I will use the power washer in such cases now. I do know that keeping the stave wet will help a lot. As far as the swimming pool goes--I guess we'll just have to find a more courageous swimming pool owner.

J. D. Duff

Pappy · « **Reply #22 on:** April 18, 2007, 06:26:59 am »

Ya JD,my wife lets me get away with a lot,but I think that would put her over the edge.
I am kind of hen pecked you know.

Pappy

duffontap · « **Reply #23 on:** April 18, 2007, 03:54:11 pm »

Oh I know! I think almost all of us have extremely understanding wives or we wouldn't be in this at all. When we bought our house a few years ago my wife volunteered a promise to never try to park a car in our garage. It's all mine. What a gal!

J. D. Duff

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