Just finished converting part of my 1/2 car garage (they call it a one car garage but its more like a 1 ATV garage). When you live in a city where lots are measured in sqft, you don't got much room when it comes to setting up a fur shed. Plus this small garage also has to be used as a storage area for my other hobbies (freshwater fishing, saltwater fishing, wood working, welding, gun building, reloading, hunting, skateboarding, surfing, wakeboarding, and dirt biking), the stuff my wife doesn't want to store in the house, and my kids bigger outside toys that we don't want to get damaged by the sun. I've been trapping with a buddy who had a bigger area for us to use as a trap shed, but this season I'm going solo so needed to make my garage work.

I've I set up my work bench that I also use for building guns and reloading. I put one shelve below, and left room for my air compressor, welder, and box with misc. trap equipment can slide under. I added peg board on the wall behind the bench (i need to add one more section). This is where my skinning knife, fleshing knife, tail zipper, leg stretchers (hanger ends for cats), push pins, gloves, and other fur handling equipment hang. The next section of peg board is where all my trap modification tools will hang. My fleshing beam attaches to the left leg of my work bench and can easily be removed to keep out of the way. Then I made a shelf out of 2x6. I made it out of 2x6 because it needs to be strong without the need of a lot of supports plus I need something thick that I can screw hooks into to hang up my fur while its drying. On the far end I have eye bolts to hold my fur hangers. On the self I have my borax tub for cleaning pelts before the sale, my skinning gimble, chain, cable, and my catch pole. On the wall I have two brackets that can fold up and out of the way if I need to that holds my stretchers. The one has 2 coyote stretchers and 4 cat stretchers, and the other has 6 grey fox stretchers. Next to my bench I have my shop vac for easy access, and a Husky tote with wheels that has my traps. I can easily roll it around the garage to get it out of the way, and during the trapping season it stays in the bed of my truck. For skinning I added a carabiner to a skinning gambrel. When it's time to skin, I just clip it through one of the holes on my garage door opener on the ceiling. I'm trying to find something that I can easily stow away to put on the garage floor below where I skin and below my fleshing beam to keep some of the blood and grease off the concrete. Any ideas would be awesome.



Its nothing big or fancy, but I can can have 8 animals drying at a time, store 5 dozen traps, 12 stretchers, and all my other misc trapping gear and only take up a small portion of my already small garage. Although I would love a nice 10x12 shed that is only for trapping and nothing else (and one day I will), you don't need a lot of room to have a functional fur shed.

Eagleye. Thanks

Looks good Cat! Although I have what's considered a 2 car garage, you could barely fit 2 in there with all of the stuff that we have. So my wife said that I could have it as a man cave. I have so much stuff out there it's not funny. Pretty much everything for hunting, fishing, camping, trapping, pieces of my homemade gym, quad, kids bikes, etc...

It's definitely an organizational nightmare but you have to try. I built a shelving system extending from the front of the garage to the back of the garage on one side of the garage. That was one of the greatest things that I did. Built it out of 2x4's. I have about a 5' shelf on one end, clothing hanging area in the middle which is about 6', and then it ends with another 5' or so shelving area on the end. It's all connected and is really sturdy.

Looks good cat trapper. The only thing I would change is move that stuff in front of the breaker box. If you or the wife need in there for an emergency, that stuff will be all over the floor. And your insurance man would have a heart attack if he saw it.

The best demo I've ever set through was the one in North Bay......It was one of their graders? The extra steps he talked about doing and the difference they make to a buyer was top notch.

The picture makes everything look a lot closer, but that SBR.......I mean AR "pistol" with the suppressor..........I mean "solvent" trap......isn't always in the vise like that. The vise swivels to the side and out of the way. The breaker box is very easy to get to and open when the suppressed SBR ghost gun.......I mean AR pistol, with a lower I built myself from an 80% paper weight that has a solvent trap on it and a folding stock so it can easily be hidden in a small child's backpack....to prevent theft of course since no criminal breaking into a house would look in such a place, isn't there.

I think your good cat that thing is not a evil black assault rifle , I feel you have nothing to worry about .

I use a wood burner to score all my flagging tape so it doesn't unravel in the field, allows you to tear off just what you need.

Use a RTS speed gambrel on your skinning machine. Can gain you up to 12in if the machine isn't tall enough.

I've been doing this for a couple years. It's saved a couple rolls of flagging for me. Gotta be careful not to melt it too deep though.

That's an excellent idea. Never seen that before...thanks!

An old brake rotor makes a good base for a vise, to work on traps and other things. It's mobile, stable, and slides out of the way when not in use .

It works fine on yotes- I never skinned or tried it on a frozen one- it probably weighs 90 lbs +... I guess you could throw a wheel weight on the base or some kind of weight if you needed more.

Catfish that's slick right there.

Catfish - that is a very good idea! Good thinking.

Pulled this up for some more good ideas.

Learn how to use a needle nose pliers for pining saves on fingers

Great thread for sure. I have a big wash sink in my room. It has a million uses really. I toss wet dirty and frozen animal in there to drain or i wash the hides on the critter in there before skinning. I also have clamps hanging to the wall i use to hang furs like hsown for brushing or thawing out from the freezer. With hot water as well this is a very useful addition to keep tools and room clean. On the side i have plenty of storage for baits lures waxing pots and what not as well.

I like to use wood chips like has been stated before a few times on here as well on the floor beneath my animals hanging.

getting fur to the shed I use dog choker chain to carry beaver out with, small and strong