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Author Topic: Portable debarker  (Read 5392 times)

Offline moodnacreek

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Portable debarker
« on: March 04, 2019, 05:40:51 PM »
Can anyone explain a chain flail debarker?  I would like to debark only the worst logs in my log yard . I handle logs with a truck mounted picker. Thanks, Doug

Offline Savannahdan

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Re: Portable debarker
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2019, 10:55:36 AM »
Doug:
From what I can find it's similar to a flail mower which is comprised of a large drum with rows (staggered) of chains.  The drum spins around and the chains hit the bark to remove it.  My only question about it would be whether it hammers/imbeds sand and grit in the log.  I had a flail mower quite a few years ago when I first moved to Kentucky and it was great in area where it was rocky.
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Offline moodnacreek

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Re: Portable debarker
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2019, 06:25:41 PM »
T hanks for reply.  Is this machine stand alone or mounted on something like a tractor?  Where I live there has never been any pulp wood activity. The local paper mill was a waste paper mill.

Offline starmac

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Re: Portable debarker
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2019, 10:02:10 PM »
I have never seen a flail debarker, but a friend of mine has an old hydroax, that he bought for parts, it has what I think is a mulcher, that is a flail. I suspect it would do more than debark though.