Keep the bark?

[Eric Johnson]

I haul it all back into the woods. The crap is too smoky for my tastes. I keep all of the splitter debris for kindling but the bark goes back home to fertilize more trees.

My thoughts exactly. Too smokey to burn unless you have no neighbors. I use it almost like mulch, to keep the weeds from growing under or around my stacked wood (I always put down a layer of bark first before adding pallets, and stacking the wood.

It does produce a lot of smoke. Was a no-no in my old boiler for that reason. Now with the gasifier, smoke is fuel, so the more the merrier. You get a lot of it if you're working with thicker-bark species like oak, walnut and maple.

 

[cogger]

Bark off. Helps keeps the bugs, mold and moisture out of the wood pile. Recyle as kindle or where ever needed.