Log cleaning and barking

In a log cleaning and barking machine provided with a conveyor producing endwise displacement of a log in a selected direction along a path extending through the machine, the combination comprising a first series of fluid jet nozzles surrounding the log path, converging radially inward towards the latter, and positioned for impingement of bark cutting fluid jets in circumferentially spaced-apart relationship and relatively orthogonally onto the bark of said log, a second series of fluid jet nozzles surrounding the log path and spaced down the latter relative to the first series and conically converging inward towards the log path and in opposite direction relative to said selected direction, and high pressure fluid supply means connected to said fluid jet nozzles and arranged to produce high pressure jets in the latter, whereby to cut said bark into strips longitudinally of said log with said first series of fluid jets and to thereafter peel said bark strips from the wood of said log with said second series of fluid jets.