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Fur Put Up and Handling on the Road #6482208
03/05/19 11:19 PM
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What do you do for fur handling while trapping far from home?
Staying in a hotel or camping.


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Re: Fur Put Up and Handling on the Road [Re: Forest] #6482227
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I found a thread about this from a few years ago but I cannot view it. I think last time the site went threw some changes all those non archived threads were lost.

Anyway if someone knows of thread where this has been covered please lmk as I cannot find one.


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Re: Fur Put Up and Handling on the Road [Re: Forest] #6482279
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Would like to see the responses to this.....I have often wondered the same thing. Thought about hauling a chest freezer I guess.


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Re: Fur Put Up and Handling on the Road [Re: Forest] #6482298
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You will either have to rent locker space where your going or haul a freezer with you. That's the only way to make sure your catch doesn't go bad.


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Re: Fur Put Up and Handling on the Road [Re: Forest] #6482307
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What you mean by rent locker space Beav? I’m not following.


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Re: Fur Put Up and Handling on the Road [Re: Forest] #6482324
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I think he's referring to the local meat locker. That's what they call meat processing plants around here. Although I've never known 1 to hold fur for people, though I suppose them or a taxidermist might do it for a fee.

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Re: Fur Put Up and Handling on the Road [Re: Forest] #6482571
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WE have some cold storage places around here that will take anything. At the time I looked Into It It was $30.00 a month.

But I'm sure that In po dunk USA your not going to find these cold storage places.


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Re: Fur Put Up and Handling on the Road [Re: Forest] #6482589
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Professor friend of mine travelled across the mid-west and did a book on "Locker Rooms" building, because he knew they would be gone in very short order. He put a lot of miles on between active and left to ruin buildings.

Re: Fur Put Up and Handling on the Road [Re: Forest] #6482634
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Places that are considered cold storage places that do custom butchering won't take and store fur.


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Re: Fur Put Up and Handling on the Road [Re: Forest] #6482640
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Not a problem.Bring a woman to put up your fur at camp each day.
She can cook and keep up camp,and run a few traps and snares close to camp while your trapping.

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Re: Fur Put Up and Handling on the Road [Re: Forest] #6482713
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Well a quick google search of the place I plan to go didn’t have any cold lockers listed.
Perhaps my best bet would be to make friends with someone with a big garage.


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Originally Posted by Boco
Not a problem.Bring a woman to put up your fur at camp each day.
She can cook and keep up camp,and run a few traps and snares close to camp while your trapping.

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Well a quick google search of the place I plan to go didn’t have any cold lockers listed.
Perhaps my best bet would be to make friends with someone with a big garage.


Making friends with the garage owner will be 10 times easier then finding the woman described above.

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Re: Fur Put Up and Handling on the Road [Re: Tailhunter] #6482761
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Originally Posted by Tailhunter
Originally Posted by Boco
Not a problem.Bring a woman to put up your fur at camp each day.
She can cook and keep up camp,and run a few traps and snares close to camp while your trapping.

Originally Posted by Forest
Well a quick google search of the place I plan to go didn’t have any cold lockers listed.
Perhaps my best bet would be to make friends with someone with a big garage.


Making friends with the garage owner will be 10 times easier then finding the woman described above.


Amen to that!


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Re: Fur Put Up and Handling on the Road [Re: Forest] #6482780
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Putting up fur on the road Is pretty much a disaster waiting to happen. Rough skin and freeze your pelts and take care of the pelts when you get home.

I spent 15 years long lining In the SC and It was always easier to put up that fur when I got home.

I have no idea what the storage units cost and If they all have electricity but that may be a place to start.


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That's goofy,Millions of pelts were put up in camps by thousands of trappers for hundreds of years.

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Your time would be better spent catching fur while on the road.

Those millions of pelts that were put up for those hundreds of years were probably put up by camp peons.


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Nobody is trapping 24-7,there is always time at camp to put up your fur,unless your too lazy.It is nice to have a good woman at camp though that can handle fur,cook and keep the camp stove going.


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Well when I went south It was 24/7 If you didn't you weren't going to make It. Check traps all day skin till dark . 40 and 50 degree weather and no place to really dry fur.

WE were lucky that we always had a place to stay but for the most part there wasn't any place to work fur.
I have skinned rats and beaver In a motel room but they kind of frown on scraping and drying. LOl And If your tenting or even staying In a camper your not going to be able to do It right.
Boco your living In dream world. LOl


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No beav I live it.Have put up plenty of fur at camp and so do all the other trappers I know.
If you are trapping out of a motel room,there is something wrong with you.Wasting money,and where in the heck are you going to find a motel room on a trapline,lol.Wasting money on a motel room and also wasting money driving for miles to get to it.I can imagine what a motel looks like that allows skinning etc in the room,and who the heck would do that where they sleep?Scratch much beav,lol.
Lots of guys trap out of wall tents,one for bunking and another for cooking putting up fur.
I think I figured it out beav.you drive the highways all day picking up roadkill,then stop at a fleabag hotel every night to skin the gutpile,lol.

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No boco The people I trapped for furnished me with a house to live In. But there was one time we skinned a bunch of rats In a motel room.

I can just see you trying to dry rats and other furs In feaking wall tent with the humidity so high you could cut It with a knife. You never trapped In SC In Jan and Fed so you don't have a clue. A wall tent wouldn't be big enough when your taking 20 beaver a day and then throw In a few otter.
But I do know several big time rat trappers who worked out Of a motel In ND and caught more rats In a week then you have caught In lifetime.


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