bitshird
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I felled a very large Red Oak tree last week, nearly 4 ft diameter! allot of rotten very punky wood near the top, maybe usable for worthless wood near the stump, which we cut off at the ground level there is some interesting grain, I wondered if I should remove the bark, after I split some of the 18 inch thick slab, there is some spalting in the sapwood, and a couple of burls where branches had broken off, (the tree was about 150 years old) a few limbs that came off a few months ago already had some spalting, they were still very wet, I covered the ends with latex paint, do I need to remove the bark to help it dry?