I am going to build a new skinning table to skin coons and beavers mainly on it’ll be 3 foot by 4 foot any tips and tricks to add onto the table for ease of skinning?

Thanks,

Owen

make it so you can clean it easy also put knife holder on side

Make up one of the Jim Gibb folding tables in the fha manual.The plans and material list is right there.

I started with a Fur Harvester Beaver Table, I made a few modifications...
I made a table top for skinning and other projects. I put portholes on each side to access a shelf, keeps my fur handling tools at hand. Also added a shelf below that for more stuff.


Added a bench vise(made out of a pipe clamp), it holds a jig for boarding/fleshing fur or other projects





I also added a vise grip clamp.

Add occasionally I use it as a beaver table.

Very nice, Rendezvous!

Mount a vicegrip to clamp coon tails in for making the opening cut. Clamp tail in and let hang over the edge with the belly facing you. Makes opening cut a breeze.

The vise grip clamp with a pipe welded to the bottom, placed in a hole in the table top(and frame) gives you 360 use. Hern on here has done it this way, great option.

Make it tall enough that your not hunched over it killing your back.

I made a fixed base vice grip clamp for opening cuts and quickly realized I needed another for smaller animals in a different spot on fur table.
I didn't want to unscrew base and move clamp every time when needed.

So I came up with this design-






Clamp swivels this way,


and that way


This clamp design swivels. Very portable as well... I drilled hole in work bench and outside work table so I can use clamp for off season projects.

On my fleshing table, I offset two pieces of wood to hold my wood stretchers.

This makes for two handed pinning...

Some good ideas here. Several of which I've used in my shed. Only wish I had more room.

Some familiar things here - vice grips and an actual metal vice. I find that I use my table all year round for various projects. My metal vice is handy for closing J hooks and a million other things when you need an extra pair of hands.

My table is an old science lab table from a local high school. You probably remember the old 1.5" think fire proof tables. Makes for quick clean up and cost me almost nothing.

One idea I haven't heard - mine is easily movable as the top is setting on two saw horses. I did this because in the fall I move my base of operations to the garage where I have an overhead skinning machine (Thanks ADC!). It is pretty slick to do the opening cuts on the table and turn around and do the skinning without moving much. When the weather gets really cold in December and the initial rush is over things get moved to my basement where I can still work but am a little more comfortable. I will try and post a picture later.

This will give you an idea of what I was talking about.

Thanks for all the tips and tricks guys I’ve decided that I will instead build two benches one more as a workbench / coon table (including the movable vice grips) and then a second beaver table to be able to use both sides of the boards.


Thanks again,

Owen

15yr old lovin’ the outdoors

Small fur shed build a folding table. Jim Gibb has a picture and plains.

Here's mine- portable workbench, skinning table and beaver boarding table.

I forgot, I did add a second shelf below the first shelf for belly boards and weasel boards. Trying to get the most of my limited area...


And I do use it as a beaver table...