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Pressure Washer
#6269971
06/30/18 03:20 PM
06/30/18 03:20 PM
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Joined: Nov 2015
Posts: 103 English Mountain, TN
ShonIngram
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Posts: 103
English Mountain, TN
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Has anyone had any luck using pressure washers? I am tearing up beaver pelts for some reason.
Shon Ingram Member: TFHA, NTA, NRA
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Re: Pressure Washer
[Re: ShonIngram]
#6270067
06/30/18 07:21 PM
06/30/18 07:21 PM
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Joined: Jul 2016
Posts: 3,141 Michigan
Ditchdiver
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Michigan
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Never tried it, and probably never will. Learn to do it the correct way, with a knife, and you will be a lot better off. A pressure washer seems way more messy too.
When life gets me down..... you know hunting/trapping season is closed.
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Re: Pressure Washer
[Re: ShonIngram]
#6271224
07/02/18 03:41 PM
07/02/18 03:41 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 23,888 Wisconsin
The Beav
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If you can't rough skin In less then 6 min and then flesh over the beam In 10 min your not doing something right or you just need more practice.
If I had to clean skin beaver I would quit beaver trapping.
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Re: Pressure Washer
[Re: ShonIngram]
#6271452
07/02/18 10:17 PM
07/02/18 10:17 PM
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Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 45,590 james bay frontierOnt.
Boco
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Some guys quit if they have to just skin beaver,lol.I enjoy handling beaver-very relaxing after a long day on the line.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Pressure Washer
[Re: ShonIngram]
#6271647
07/03/18 10:14 AM
07/03/18 10:14 AM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 23,888 Wisconsin
The Beav
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Me to Boco. When I was catching 250 beaver In 2 months down south you learned how to become fast and efficient. You needed to be very fast or quit trapping beaver. We rough skinned and froze the hides and did the fleshing at home. We didn't have the facilities where we were staying to dry beaver hides. I don't think there Is a beaver out there that I couldn't rough skin In 8 min or less. My best time was 3min and 16 seconds. That was from the time I laid the beaver on the table till the hide hit the floor. And there were no Holes LOL
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Re: Pressure Washer
[Re: ShonIngram]
#6272133
07/04/18 01:06 AM
07/04/18 01:06 AM
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Joined: Mar 2014
Posts: 4,369 N.C MO
TONY.F
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Your tearing them I presume when your fleshing? if so learn the over your leg fleshing method it teachs you how to have a lighter touch. U- tube trappers world or trapping inc both have a good video demonstrating it. It helped me!
LIVE LIFE LIKE THEIR IS NO TOMMORROW
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Re: Pressure Washer
[Re: ShonIngram]
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07/04/18 12:34 PM
07/04/18 12:34 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 23,888 Wisconsin
The Beav
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If your knife angle Is just about flat you won't cut holes In a beaver hide. And about 80% of the fleshing done on a beaver Is done with the dull side of your knife.
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Re: Pressure Washer
[Re: ShonIngram]
#6272544
07/04/18 02:02 PM
07/04/18 02:02 PM
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Joined: Mar 2014
Posts: 4,369 N.C MO
TONY.F
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beav your a better man than me I cant get the fat to roll using the dull side. Only way I can get a hide super clean is over my leg with a sharp boning knife.
LIVE LIFE LIKE THEIR IS NO TOMMORROW
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Re: Pressure Washer
[Re: ShonIngram]
#6272662
07/04/18 04:44 PM
07/04/18 04:44 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 23,888 Wisconsin
The Beav
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How are you placing your hide on the beam?
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