My buddy Mike uses a spud frequently.
There is a modern subculture, bark spud user crowd, in the valley now.
All the young guys want to believe in the bark spud.
If the log is too big to lift by hand, or you have to work the log
while its laying on the ground for any reason, bark spuds are the only
way to go.
Work the spud in, in a straight line up the log,
and then begin to work it side to side peeling bark whole.
This works, slowly.
Its my contention that bark spuds were mostly invented for when you
want to save the bark. When the bark itself is the desired product.
As in hickory, birch, or tan oak.
Hickory could weave baskets and chair seats, birch bark canoes,
and you tan leather in an ooze of tan oak bark and water.
For smaller poles of any kind, when you want the pole and don't care
about the bark,
lift one end into a crossbuck and maybe lift the other end just a bit
on something else, straddle the log, and take a large drawknife to it.
This can be learned as a much faster technique. All us old school
river people used drawknives to peel our poles.
Homes and barns were built with poles and drawknives.
Nobody ever approached that much pole volume with a spud.
There was however one guy. The fastest of all of us.
He used a short blunt end shovel that had been sharpened. All the rest
of us got to where we could peel pretty long strings of bark with every
stroke of the drawknife.
But this guy would launch himself at the pole and the sharpened
shovel would fly all down the length of the log in one shot, peeling
bark as it went.
This was a pretty wild technique though.
The rest of us could go fast enough with a plain drawknife. hehe
yours Scott
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