The Bellingham hydraulic log barker

Production of the higher grades of wood pulps requires that the bark be removed from the logs as the initial process in preparing the wood for manufacture into pulp. Phenomenal savings in pulp wood and labor are being realized by Pacific Northwest pulp and paper mills using full-sized-log debarking machines, capable of debarking logs 6 to 80 inches in diameter, by 26 feet long. The success gained with this latest Bellingham barker has resulted in marked attention being given to additional installations of this design in both large and small capacity. The older wasteful methods of debarking small cut-up sections of the tree are becoming obsolete.