Sent the last load of fur last week. Boards are cleaned up and the traps are waxed and treated. Always hate to see the last of the fur go.

Nice trapping parlor you have there

Well,your wife sure keeps a tidy fur shed.I think she's a "keeper".

There are no girly calenders. Must be his wifes fur shed.LOL

Sometimes it gets a little messy. Paul would not like the Calender Pics on here. LOL

Great photo's rifle 1 how many traps do you have?

Never have enough traps lol Prob 350 traps

dang brad, ya got it all cleaned already? i still have beaver feet on the floor!

Wanted to get it done before the farming starts. Can't leave beaver feet lay around here. The dog can't leave them alone, she snuck one in the house one time and hid it under the couch. Wife was not impressed.

heard that! i have been trying to get next winters wood cut and split before it gets too warm.

I'm really envious,you are really organized.I have the "packrat gene",any open space around me will be cluttered up before nightfall.

You're out of paper towels.

Sorry about the paper towels

Wow great trapper shed. I hadent even thought about dying and waxing,Koodos to you!

I love the chairs nothing like setting back and admiring the fur

Top picture. Me on the left , partner Matt on right

nice looking setup. i picked up a couple things from your pictures i am gonna do. when you say you cleaned your boards, do you do anything special or just wipe them down? is there anything to put on them to make them last longer? also do they ever warp leaning against the wall like that? thanks

I just wipe them down. The coon grease seals them good. Never had any boards warp yet.

Very nice set up....still have fur hanging here. will be getting things cleaned up in a couple weeks after the NAFA agent stops to pick up the fur...Tom

Thanks TOM. The one pic. of the put up 4x coon shows the secret tool laying on the floor. Its a blower they use to dry steers for 4-h when they show them at the fairs. We use it to dry and blow off the fur before skinning and blow the fur off after it comes off the boards. Its the LAST tool I would give up in the shed.

I have a couple box fans for the lite duty work and an old grain bin fan when I need some big time air flow...picked it up at an auction for a couple bucks and just set it on a freezer. Main air flow is out the front with some coming from each side...works in my small set up...lol Tom

When the fur rack is full we have two box fans hanging from the ceiling blowing down the rows.

I got a question about blowing and fluffing up the fur. I understand how it could help your fur appearance and therefore the price you get for it if selling local or to Groeny of State Auction where YOU are actually presenting the fur. But when shipping to an auction where your fur may lay stacked in a pile for a month or two, that fluffy fur will get flattened back down to some degree. How can it still help the sale value in those situations.

I used to think that Bic but with the grades we have been getting at the last couple auctions I don't want to change anything. After we get done blowing out the grease and the fur is dry and fluffy I don't think it can mat back up from storage. IMO. We had 350 coon at the last Nafa auction and averaged 36.33. Thats only 4.49 short of the best section coon (western northern). These are Ohio coon So like I said I don't want to change anything.

Rifle 1, As the old saying goes, "If it ain't broke, Don't fix it"

I hope it works for May, If not back to plan b. LOL

bic, I have started running some coyotes through the fur drum and vac pacing them flat and put them in the freezer. When you take them back out, they fluff back up because the fur is clean and not stuck together. IMO
Dave

rifle i got that for the ones i sold at nafa and all i did was run a comb thru them..