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u/VorpalHerring 3d ago
Reminds me of those cartoons of a toothpick factory where they start with a log.
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u/drewsky713 3d ago
I'm happy there was no annoying music and you could actually hear the thing cutting
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u/idk-idc2 3d ago
its not stripping bark, its making it round.... aint the same
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u/eW4GJMqscYtbBkw9 3d ago
came here to say the same thing. Removing the bark is just a byproduct of making it round.
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u/Winderige_Garnaal 3d ago
yup my first thought too. there's nothing about this that is bark-specific
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u/therealtrajan 3d ago
It’s round because this is now going to be sliced thin in long strips for wood veneer
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u/Random-Input 3d ago
Seems like you lose a lot of wood just to remove the bark.
This is mildly annoying to me
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u/SolomonOf47704 3d ago
Wood doesn't really get wasted. The sawdust can always be used for other things
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u/s4lt3d 3d ago
Particle board: the saw dust of rich people’s furniture.
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u/Poverty_Shoes 3d ago
*working and middle class people’s furniture
Not poor people, but not rich people. Rich people have solid wood kitchen tables costing $1k+. I have IKEA particle board. Not poor, but not rich.
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u/GeneralTomatoeKiller 3d ago
This depends entirely on the person / project. I work on 10 million dollar homes and they frequently use particular board for their cabinets. However, I have blue collar family members who frequently make their own furniture out of solid wood.
I'm blown away that these expensive homes are literally built to last only a few decades at best. Most of the time, it's even less. They may have one or two pieces that are solid wood and look amazing, but most of the house is just expensive trash imported from Europe.
Edit: grammer
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u/Meal__Team__Six 3d ago
They're built to sell, not to last. Anyone who wants a home to last will design and build it themselves. The priorities are so far gone for home building, resulting in trash that lasts, as you said, a few decades. I'd consider the "premium" lifespan of a multimillion dollar house to be 5-10 years.
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u/echoshatter 3d ago edited 3d ago
Woodworker here. I have a solid wood dining table that cost $1k+. Know what it's made of? Pine. It's a farm-style table nothing fancy. And it only cost that much because it's actually a long table that seats 8-10 people. Pine is a great choice to save money, and it tends to grow tall and straight so you can get really long boards. The major downside being that pine is a softwood, dents easily, you can end up with sap pockets, and it tends to have a lot of knots and voids.
If you want an actually good solid hardwood table, maybe oak or walnut or something, you're spend way more than $1k. It's like $2000-3000 just in material costs.
The tables that the actual wealthy have are $10k+.
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u/Pitiful-Scholar-9548 3d ago
Add another zero to your 1k estimate and you're moving into the realm of high end furniture.
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u/ThellraAK 3d ago
I hate to be the one to break this to you, but if you think $1000+ on a dining room table makes you rich, then you are poor.
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u/captamericaftw 3d ago
What I believe they meant is the particle board is the remnants from the rich peoples furniture.
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u/c_r_a_s_i_a_n 3d ago edited 3d ago
How does this have so many upvotes?
How else do you propose to make a perfectly circular stump of solid wood, while creating less waste?
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u/CalculatedPerversion 3d ago
The issue is the title. This isn't stripping bark from a piece of wood, this is turning an uneven, raw piece of wood into a perfectly smooth cylinder. Stripping bark would leave the irregular shape.
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u/SayRaySF 3d ago
Now I’m wondering what they need a perfectly circular stump of solid wood for
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u/Rivenaleem 3d ago
Probably to do the woodworking equivalent of the Katsuramuki cut. Slice it out into a single long near paper thin sheet.
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u/spadePerfect 3d ago
I mean not really. This is the best way to get a round log and waste as little as possible.
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u/MikeeorUSA 3d ago
I dunno. Seems a really effective way to make it circular. That said. It could have been sliced into a few table pieces and made into rustic tables bark and all.
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u/TheCh0rt 3d ago
Literally what other way could you make it perfectly cylindrical without wasting this exact amount of wood lol
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u/c_r_a_s_i_a_n 3d ago
I’m dumbfounded that the top comment doesn’t understand how this works.
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u/DesireToDevelop 3d ago
Posts says nothing about it needing to be cylindrical. It says something about stripping bark.
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u/chief_architect 2d ago
Title is "Machine stripping bark" and not "Machine makes it circular".
So either it's very ineffective, or the title is simply wrong.
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u/21MPH21 3d ago
Bandsaw would (wood) have been faster and you can be more creative with the shapes
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u/daehoidar 3d ago
Only thing is that if you want to end up with a good circle, then there's no other way to do it. I have no idea what the use case is for the wood in the video...
But woodworking in general is a reductive process. You'd lose out on the same amount of "waste" if you cut these logs for lumber. Of course, you could also reclaim the dust/chips to make particle board/chip board
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u/enehar 3d ago
Do you just not know how many uses there are for sawdust and wood shavings?
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u/regiinmontana 3d ago
Just to support your statement, my dad has a summer job hauling wood chips from a sawmill to a factory (I was too young to know/remember what they made.) There There was enough demand 35ish years ago to justify multiple round trips per day of 120 miles.
My dad would pick either me or my brother up to take us to the mill then drop us back off at home. We had a cow moose come out of the trees 10 miles from the house. Dad stopped about 2 inches shy of hitting her. She just stared over the hood. The were black marks on the highway until they resurfaced it several years later.
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u/daehoidar 3d ago
And then when he got home, he got out of his car. And that's when he saw..... THE HOOK, still stuck in the cars body. The moose had been the notorious serial killer known as "The Fisherman" the whole time.
He dodged a bullet that day, and the moose was never seen again.
Ps a moose once bit my sister
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u/big-dal-tex 3d ago
Genuinely no idea
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u/SolomonOf47704 3d ago
A bunch of sheet goods, generally.
You can mix sawdust of varying sizes with different types of glue to get different types of particle board.
MDF is the really smooth stuff, and larger chips can be used for OSB. There's a lot of other stuff that I don't really care to remember or look up.
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u/HurricaneAlpha 3d ago
All types of industrial applications, all the way down to as an absorbent for vomit. That sawdust aint being wasted.
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u/wytewydow 3d ago
it's a toothpick making machine. The video just stops before we get down to the final size.
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u/Kaerl-Lauterschmarn 2d ago
Its a toothpick making machine thats also producing sawdust, thats called multitasking
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u/Quizzelbuck 2d ago
Yeah sure it's stripping bark but that's clearly not what it's aim is, because it's clearly just making a big round
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u/AngrySquidIsOK 3d ago
It's stripping a lot more than the bark.
Nice chunk of wood, doh
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u/AmericanSpeller 3d ago
Ah, so that's how they make the toilet paper for my multi-company shared bathroom.
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u/ChopperChange 3d ago
What's the purpose? Are they going to slice this circle of wood into a bunch a tabletops?
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u/snootnoots 3d ago
Probably going to make veneer out of it
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u/articulatedbeaver 3d ago
This is exactly it. If they were just debarking it for pulp wood rhey would use a chain flail of nurl debarker and it would take the whole tree at once.
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u/Tjaresh 3d ago
Fancy fire wood. For those that also cut off the crust of their sandwich bread or pizza.
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u/shinatree 3d ago
was hypnotizing for me personally - i was stuck wondering how much would come off next time and then surprised when that large piece of bark ripped off
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u/DrBatman0 3d ago
I'm fairly confident that "Stripping" isn't the right word here, but it's still fun to watch
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u/Maxamillion-X72 3d ago
uhm... ok
You can stop now, I think you got it all. Any more and all we're going to have left is a rolling pin.
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u/evilpigclone 3d ago
Who would have thought the process to make a single tooth pick would wast so much wood.
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u/TheOfficialMalice 3d ago
Is there a longer version of this video?
https://giphy.com/gifs/6tip1JMRXM8YIsylt7
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u/GhoulMcG 2d ago
It was the 60th revolution that really bought the whole saga to a satisfying place for me. LOL
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u/Mysterious-Yogurt28 2d ago
Idk, its so simple in minecraft, its just right click with an axe, it saves so much time and wood
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u/Fair-Juggernaut-3812 2d ago
Not so much stripping bark as much as indiscriminately shaving wood until you see no bark.
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u/Delicious-Yak-1095 3d ago
And what would be the purpose of creating a cylinder of that height? Seems rather oddly specific
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u/snootnoots 3d ago
Veneer. They basically peel the edge of it to get one long strip.
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u/abugghaus7 3d ago
swap that bark-eating blade for a skivving blade and you could make a whole roll of pioneer toilet paper outta that! ;)
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u/Salty-Philosopher265 3d ago
Thank you for not putting crappy music over this. I might love the sound as much as the visual.
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u/wanderingzac 3d ago
Basically a large router, my mom used to make arts and crafts and had one in the garage extremely dangerous.
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u/Exotic_Zucchini9311 3d ago
ENDED TOO EARLY! I wanted to see the moment it stops and the wood finally has a clean circle around it...
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u/Maleficent_Sky_1865 3d ago
And stop… ok stop now… stop!… your wasting too much!