newbie needs help skinning tree

Hola. I have a 5ft palm stump still in the ground. My neighbor is going to carve into a tiki if/when i get it stripped. What a pain...i've been using a chain saw, knife, and hand saw...but is very slow going. Are there any tips or shortcuts to stripping a palm?

Boom...

Good job! Welcome to Tiki Central, what's next?

I can't remember the name of this tool but it worked well to clean off all the bark before I carved the tiki.

The air filled up with floating particles so I put on a mask right off.

I look forward to seeing your project. hang10tiki did a whole bunch when he had trees die in his backyard. He has them on the carving page.

Wendy

Drawknife

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawknife

good morning; what's next? I have a neighbor, (tiki central-anthonymaye). I gave him the top of the tree in exchange for his carving skills. Next step is to let the stump dry for a month or two; then he will sketch some ideas based on what we want; then he will spray paint the general scheme on the stump and let us live with that for a week or so to make sure the design is OK...then he'll start carving.