A "pet" moose really beats my "pet" buzzards. As I referred to them when the kids were small. My dead pit. Tense to be a regular place to get a meal for then .

When we bought my farm that s 127 miles from my other house we were at the farm and one of the kids said LOOK DAD!!! while pointing at buzzards at the farm and said your pet buzzards followed us all the way up here. With all the excitement a 5 year old can muster. I just said they sure did.

Trades

I think I’m almost ready. Just a few wolf footholds to give a once over.
We haven’t got to extend the line like planned though. No friggin time to get out there. Maybe in the next couple weeks. It’s nice doing it late spring when the frost is still in the ground and a guy can get most places on quad. Now I’ll have to go in on foot which isn’t bad, the bugs will make it much more enjoyable.

I thought it was pretty well known that he knows only what he observes.

Dead Horse State Park is close to Moab. A cheap man’s Grand Canyon.

I don't use a lot of rebar stakes, but I also prefer the T-bars.

These have never been set. Complete with factory shine. Looking to trade for silver coins, bars, rounds, bullion or old US paper currency. No interest in foreign stuff. These are NOT FOR SALE.

Thanks for looking.


Jediknight

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Jedi

Been too wet here to get a tractor out. About the only work I can do is off a sxs - spray and spread seed.

Sprayed four acre field and put the spreader on and put some brown top millet into what I had sprayed



A week later, looks like a decent kill of existing vegetation and decent germination of seed I planted



I sometimes spray and plant at the same time.

Don't be intimidated. Just go slow when skinning and learn. After all, it's only a woodchuck. And as for "tanning", are you just looking to skin it flat and hang it on a wall? Or something more ambitious? You can cut the 'chuck from belly-side base of the tail straight up the belly all the way to, and through the lower lip. Avoid cutting into the abdominal cavity. Then carefully separate the hide from the carcass, using care in the head area, cutting the ears, eyes, lips and nose close to the skull. When that is complete, take pushpins or small nails and tack the hide leather-side out on a board in a rectangle that the hide naturally wants to fit, starting with a nail in the nose area and then pulling gently from the tail and tacking that. Repeat that from the middle of each side, pulling only enough to get an equal amount of "snugness", (is that a word?), Then gently do the same with all 4 feet, or legs if you cut the feet off. until the whole hide is tacked out and taught, (not Drum-Tight). Follow that with carefully removing remaining meat and fat until you have a reasonably clean hide. You may need to adjust your pins, (or nails), at this point, as after "fleshing", the hide may have enlarged slightly.
Place it in a garage or shed that stays in the 60-80 degree temperature, and moving air, such as a fan or even an open window will help dry the skin. Remove it from the board when it is dry, which will be several days, or even a week.
If you are just going to tack it to a wall, the skin will last a long time as it is, and no further processing is needed. I have had hides tacked to a wall in this state for as long as 10 years before they start losing hair/fur, however they will be stiff as cardboard after a while.
If you simply want to preserve the hide, those orange bottles you see advertised in various magazines work ok. Follow the instructions to a tee, and you will have a "tanned" hide, but I found that even with "breaking", the quality of the finished product was not great.
A better tan will involve more work and time. Many on here are pleased with a BOCO tan, which he has generously provided on this site. You can search for it on Trapperman by clicking on his profile, I would think.

Cool find

I think moths are neat
(except the ones that eat clothes and get in food)

I dont remember needing to know the name or title of the particular law. Knowing the month certain species bare their young in Illinois is important. Bats and geese cause a lot of failures bc most dont think much about those. Its been nearly 20 years since I took it, they may have changed it, but most didn't pass it on the first try. You have to be serious about studying for it.

Good luck. I’ve been around two of them over a number of years. Last dog I’d have.