Griffy, you are the best!! I had spent hours googling "log debarkers" and other such terms, with no good results. Already found a wealth of information and plans with your tip. Aleady requested prices from a used sawmill equipmment dealer. Thanks alot. Lucy.
Ornerynorsk: thanks for the suggestion. That is precisely what we have been doing for 60 years. Changes in the agro-economy result in scarcer manual labor. If my harvest starts late, they all leave to work on the sugarcane and coffee harvests which start earlier. Besides, socialist...
In 2002 Bahamaman started thread 50-32674 asking for tips on a debarking machine for small diameter branches. I want to know if he solved his problem. I also need a machine to debark posts of quinine trees with diameters from 5" to 2 1/2".