Grounwalds fur buyers pays $3 extra for beaver put up. They said reason is they have a machine that fleshes beaver in 30 seconds. A trapper would be better off saving his energy to catch more beaver and sell skinned only. I put up a bunch for old time sake as this was first year I trapped spring beaver in years. I cut my time down after doing 15 and did a blanket in 14 minutes. That’s as fast as my 69 year old hands can go. I’m selling the rest just skinned. My hands hurt and my shoulders hurt I’m glad I did the ones I did as it brought back old memories. For $3 more each I surrender.

Where can I get one of those.

Fleshed and boarded in 14 minutes?

I wish , just fleshed in 14 minutes. I watched a guy on YouTube who catches over 70 beaver doing a how to beaver fleshing video. A blanket took him 40 minutes so that made me feel better about my 14 minutes. I know there are guys that can do blankets In under 5.

I read some older thread about beaver put ups, I can’t see how folks can board a big beaver in five minutes. I figure a blanket sized beaver is gonna have a circumference of 113” ( P= 2 x 3.14 x 18” ). Nails at 3/4 “ spacing is 150 nails. I’d have to put in 30 nails per minute, one every two seconds. I’d have every finger busted with the hammer after the second beaver.

A 1 1/4 or so between nails Is plenty.

Since they are buying beaver by the pound, why not only about 16 nails total? Plus why scape them completely clean, as long as the fat is off, leave that flesh around the head; it's all weight.

Or just take the $3 dock and not bother at all.

It would take me 30 mins plus to flesh one, I've never been good at fur put up.

My friends that sold to Groeny averaged quite a bit less than I did with my put up pelts at auction. I like putting up fur and for roughly $14 more a pelt I'll sell them at my local auction. Did sell my last batch to a local buyer and I should have just sold them to Groeny. I probably made a few dollars more than he was paying but not much. I didn't want to save the pelts till next year's auction so I sold.
I wish it only took15 minutes average for me to flesh a blanket. I don't time myself but that seems pretty quick to me.
I don't know anyone here that buys by the pound

If there is a machine that fleshes beaver in 3 minutes I want to see it. I believe there is a paul harvey version of that story.

Don’t matter how you itemize it. The averages and bottom line is all that matters. Influence you to think you only get $3 for a put up is another marketing ploy.

I clean skin so it takes me zero seconds to flesh a beaver.

It depends on what kind of beaver you have. If they're good heavies from places like N. WI, the UP, N.Minn, you can definitely do better than $3 by fleshing and selling to someone other than Groeny.

But, for most guys it probably won't matter much.

Where Groney really comes out on coon and beaver in the flesh, is dropping them all a size or two. Then it costs you more than $3.

I recall seeing a video of it on YouTube. They do half, flip it around and then do the second half. Slick!

Big… I use a loop stapler like the cable guys use for stapling the tv cable around in your house. They do not sink in all the way of course and a ground off screwdriver with a piece of metal tacked on for a prying point pops them out of the board in a heart beat when done.

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I use to send to auction before the big one went bankrupt. We’re can a Wisconsin guy send to auction now? And yes it’s easy to drop a size when buying unprocessed beaver as they just quickly grab them and guess and it’s not in your favor.

As for 14 minutes to flesh a blanket I use a super sharp fleshing knife with very little pushing and I do the face with a scalpel super fast. 40 years of taxidermy has honed my skills but the guys who are really good make me look slow. I finally learned to sharpen fleshing knives which had always been a problem. Now it’s a breeze after watching a couple really good videos on it. Once you develop proper technique with fleshing knife the sharper the better. Wrong technique and your cutting holes.

So who is selling the beaver fleshing machine?

it's sec not minutes