Very nice-thanks!

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I have back when I had access to a drum. They do look nicer but you can not change the grade (quality, size and colour) by drumming. Having said that there are occasions when a pelt is borderline for which grade it should go in, put up and care may be a determining factor.

Robert is that a frost scrapped beaver ? You do a great job on all your fur. I like to see trappers who take pride in their fur put up.

I now use a hydraulic air nailer, much faster and so far I haven't shot myself.

Yes Ron, those are frost scraped.This one is done conventionally(not frost scraped)

I use a 6 penny smooth box nail,on mine,as opposed to commons in 6s or 8s.They are nice to work with and a hair more slender.

That's what I use too Les.

Frost scraped and dried on the left. By accident, left it out in 20-30 below zero weather for 2 weeks while I was away working, another frost dried one on the other side of the board. The one on the right was dried indoors.

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we need more stuff like that....thank you


noah

Ok guys I have to ask what is frost scraping. This is my first year of putting up beaver and my first three I fleshed have been brutal. It just seems I scrape and scrape for hours and I can always take some off after going over it time and again. I have watched several u tube videos to get different styles to try to develop my own. Then when I board it I still miss a lot? I use a necker and beaver knife around the legs. I have scraped hundreds of coon and am pretty good at that with no problems

You can't do It In Ohio

I believe somewhere Boco has a great posting on frost scraping. He can probably post the link.

I did a search of Boco's 212 pages of posts and found it. Some very interesting reading on this thread.

http://www.trapperman.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/4141792#Post4141792

Geeze Ron,thanks you saved me all that work,lol.
If you don't have the climatic conditions to frostscrape you can always try cleanskinning beaver.You may find it more relaxing than the beam.
You need a good sharp knife and the ability to keep it sharp.

Watching this one.

Mike

Oh stop showing off for crying out loud. Really though that is impressive boco. Just for reference, how many beaver do you think you have put up using any and all methods?

Over the years,I suppose several thousands,but I have been trapping quite along time.
There is lots of trappers that put up more than I do.
I learned all the methods from other trappers over the years by going to workshops and working on traplines with oldtimers when I was younger.I am just passing it on.Learning to skin and put up fur got me on traplines with seasoned trappers back in the day.