I bun it at moose camp to keep the mosquitoes at bay. throw some on now & the & let it smolder. Helps mask human odors too,, so good to get on your hunting clothes .
Most of our wood we get is damaged and on the ground from mother nature, I have a paint scraper I keep in the back of the Rhino that I use on the worst splits, it was used today while stacking some Sugar and Soft Maple.
Most of it should not be a problem even in a fireplace. But like Zap stated, a paint scraper can take most of it off but I would not try to do it all at once. I'd first split and stack the wood and then as you move it to the house or wherever you store for winter use, then I'd scrape it off. You could also use a small hatchet for this which might be easier than a scraper or putty knife.
Thanks for the feedback guys! It seems that things wont get worse while drying splits so I can do what I was hoping, just clean them down the road as I go to use them. I did start to split the rounds about an hour and a half or so ago and then had to stop, the splitter has an oil leak Now I know what the next project is.
Hahaha, yeah, and it's not even my splitter, my neighbor let me borrow it a couple of months ago. I'll have to fix it up for him to return the favor.
All my trees except for the pines are covered with lichens and moss. House roof shingles too. Smells like burning wood to me. ( don't burn shingles )
I don't wanna reopen this to draw ire, I came upon some really moss laden maple that will be fantastic to burn later. Im not too worried about it myself just probably best to stack in a sunny area and it'll be easy to scrape off or even you should be able to peel the bark off by now and the moss or lichen will not be an issue at this point. Besides bark on wood is likely to just give you ash and holds in bits of moisture anyways. Get rid of it, less you have it less problems its going to give you. Hard to say if it bothers folks, if its not dried out then you're just gonna get smoke.
