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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

Keith, were those pine logs all cut about the same time of the year? Were 
the easier ones cut later or was the sap just dried out? I'm looking for 
optimal time of year to cut, to make debarking easiest.

At 06:02 AM 9/15/2005 -0400, you wrote:
> Yeah, I pealed over 300 red pine logs for our cabin. The first ones were
> wet and sticky and impossible to get all the bark off without gouging
> the wood but by the end of the summer they shed it like a dog loosing
> its winter coat. I used a drawknife and a hatchet mostly.