I know of no reasonable way to take bark off of a log with a table saw, you can't even slab one reasonably unless it is a very small log.
I suppose you could turn the blade up just a very little bit and by setting a pair of blocks to hold the log over the blade and rolling it as you move it sideways through the saw you would get a sort of debarking process. The usual way is to peal the bark off. This can be done with an ads or some sort of curved shave. Here at the plywood factory they put the logs onto a sort of huge lathe after first soaking them for days in a hot pond then bring a sharp bar against the spinning log. This scatters the bark before they begin slowly advancing a very sharp blade into the log at a fixed rate so as to peal off long curls of veneer. People here who make log houses though peal the bark by hand. Hope this is helpful. I wouldn't want to have to brake that news to my wife. Good luck. ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert j To: Blind Handyman Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 9:56 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] taking bark off of a log. Hi all My Wife wants to remove the bark from a log for a project she has in mind. She wants to keep the log and is not concerned with preserving the bark. She said we could do that with the table saw. We were both a bit cranky at the time and she could not or would not explaine how you do that little trick. I think she was just talking crazy. Am I missing some thing here? is there a way to take bark off a log using a table saw. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.4.6/1538 - Release Date: 7/7/2008 7:40 AM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
